From SFOI Sukhsimran Singh: Dear Colleagues, It has not been easy to work remotely and to coordinate several work tasks and meetings besides teaching from a computer! I looked up on several resources to find if there are any best practices on working from home, especially for those of us with young or not so … Continue reading Tips on Working Remotely From Home
From BFOI Kristen Blankley: Colleagues, Here is a near-final draft of an upcoming paper that I am publishing in the Fordham Law Review. It is about Online Resources and implementing Parenting & Financial Plans. Maybe it will give some people new ideas on working with parenting and financial plans in a pandemic. It might give … Continue reading Kristen Blankley’s Paper on Online Resources and Implementing Parenting & Financial Plans
From Jill Morris, the Director of the Mediation and Assessment Program, of United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri: The court is hiring Jill’s successor and here’s the job announcement. The closing date for applications is April 15, 2020. (Click the title to read the post.)
From Obi-Wan-FOI Noam Ebner: Hi all, Here’s a resource I’ve prepared for simulating negotiation at-a-distance, that some of you might put to good use now that our students and courses are all online. Fit the fuss to the forum! In AuraCall (Origin), a telecommunication company’s customer service center requires negotiation training in order to improve … Continue reading Simulations for Online Negotiation
From my colleague, Richard Reuben: The National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being The Mindfulness in Law Society Brown Univ. School of Public Health Mindfulness Center present Maintaining Our Balance During COVID Thursday, March 26. 6:30 p.m. Eastern The Coronavirus is challenging for all of us. But as lawyers, we need to be at our best … Continue reading CLE on Mindfulness During the Crisis – Thursday, March 26
As lots of good Sundays do, our Sunday morning in Dublin began with a drive. The group rode through Dublin’s Phoenix Park with the opportunity to view Áras an Uachtaráin – the President’s home–which was quite lovely. And then we went to visit the historic Kilmainham Goal. Kilmainham Gaol is a prison in Dublin that … Continue reading Ireland Reflections 2020–Dublin–Going to Jail & Guinness
At the end of our first day in Dublin, we spent some time learning about the impact of the potato famine on Ireland and on the world. We visited the Jeanie Johnston, an authentic replica of a transport ship commonly used during the Great Famine/Great Hunger that is docked in Dublin and serves as a memorial to … Continue reading Ireland Reflections 2020–Famine & Emigration
In what seems to be the theme for this Spring 2020 Semester, we made a change in this year’s spring break trip. Instead of heading to Israel, our traditional trip for the last decade, a group of 30 students two faculty, and myself headed to Ireland and Northern Ireland for a look at Comparative Conflict … Continue reading Ireland Reflections 2020
From OFOI Noam Ebner: Hi all, The video of the webinar that Sharon Press and I gave last week on conducting simulations in courses transitioning to Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms is now available here. The question about setting up breakup rooms in zoom in advance, asked at about minute 29:00 in the webinar, is … Continue reading Webinar Recording About Transitioned Classes and Online Simulations
As John Lande posted, Noam Ebner and Sharon Press hosted their terrific ABA SDR Zoom tutorial today on teaching mediation and negotiation online. It should be up soon at the ABA DR website. In the meantime Noam sent this around and said I could post it: Hi all, Sharon Press and I send our thanks … Continue reading Teaching Online SSRN paper
