Brian Pappas, Bridget McCormack and I are seeking submissions to include in our upcoming book project that we intend to publish with DRI Press. We previously invited a small group of experts in Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration to submit their favorite exercise to us, and received some great entries. We are now widening our call, … Continue reading Please Send Us Your Favorite ADR Exercise(s)!
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that the 2024 CPR Awards were announced last week. I’ve asked the academic winners to send me an abstract or summary of their award winning works to be posted here, which I will be doing over the next couple of weeks. As you might expect, … Continue reading CPR Awards – Article Summary – Comparing Joint Session and Caucus Outcomes: Factoring in Substantive Discussions and Case Characteristics
This is a note asking you to complete the survey below. I want to collect the views of as many members of our community as possible. So please take a few minutes to complete the survey if you haven’t done so already. Thanks very much. I am doing a research study entitled “Conceptions of … Continue reading Reminder: Please Complete This Short Survey By Friday, February 14
I’m happy to announce that the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) is hiring! The Center is a top Law School ADR Center that engages in a vast array of research, teaching, policy, and consulting work, both domestically and internationally. We … Continue reading Job announcement: UC Law San Francisco
If you’re on the ADR prof listserv, you’ve seen some congratulatory remarks about the CPR Awards, which were announced yesterday. If you’re not familiar with the awards, the press release announcing them describes the awards as follows: The CPR Institute’s Annual Awards program honors outstanding scholarship and practical achievement in the field of alternative dispute … Continue reading 2024 CPR Award Winners Announced
The powerhouse team of Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UCIrvine) and Andrea Kupfer Schneider (Cardozo) have just published a new book, International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Press 2025). The book will have a teachers’ manual and was developed based on their learning and experiences teaching in 25 countries. Nice cover and blurb below. Congrats ! The book explores … Continue reading International Conflict Resolution Processes – Menkel-Meadow and Schneider
Hi everyone. I am doing a research study entitled “Conceptions of Facilitative and Evaluative Mediation,” and I would REALLY APPRECIATE it if you would take about five minutes to respond to the short survey below. Informed Consent Disclosure You are not required to answer any of the questions if you don’t want to. Your participation … Continue reading Please Complete This Short Survey By Friday, February 14
I am pleased to share this announcement of a new writing competition co-sponsored by the North America Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations (CGA-NA) and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. We are seeking papers from anyone interested in the intersection of arbitration and environmental law, and papers should make a … Continue reading Call for Submissions – Writing Competition – Arbitration +Environmental Law
“The mediation failed.” This statement implies that reaching agreement is the only measure of success. It also implies that the mediation process failed, not that the parties made a legitimate decision not to settle during a mediation session. When you hear someone say that, does smoke come out of your ears? Do you get hot … Continue reading How You Can Speak Dispute Resolution Well
… I found this image on social media earlier today. And I think it can fairly substitute for pretty much an entire lecture I was going to give in a couple weeks. I will likely lecture a bit, anyway. But my students, having seen this image, will quite reasonably not listen carefully. MM
