Just wanted to highlight for everyone that the Negotiation Journal has published an amazing set of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary brief commentaries on Trump and negotiation in a special issue called Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in the Age of Trump.   You can find this at Wiley and a few of us have also posted our … Continue reading Negotiation, Trump, and Lessons for the Future →

Today the USNews rankings of law schools and law school specialty programs were “leaked.”  That means they were distributed to law school deans to prepare their publicity statements, to trumpet the good and explain the bad.  And the specialty rankings were tabulated differently this year, requiring voters to rate every school for which they had … Continue reading The 2020 USNews Dispute Resolution Rankings →

Delighted to post from friend of the blog, Jean Sternlight: Those of us who have been around the block a few times are quite familiar with ye olde battle to defeat “mandatory” or “forced” or “cram down” arbitration in consumer, employment and other contexts.  I aimed my first shot at the practice in an article … Continue reading Making Arbitration FAIR →

You may have heard that President Trump said he would sign an executive order guaranteeing free speech on college campuses. With that in mind, let me recommend Jen Gerarda Brown’s wonderful essay, “Four Questions About Free Speech and Campus Conflict,” written for a symposium at Missouri last year. Jen points out that categorizing speech-related conflicts … Continue reading Brown (Quinnipiac) on Free Speech on Campus →

HBO’s new feature, “Brexit,” stars Benedict Cumberbatch and dramatizes the events leading to the Brexit referendum. Check out the trailer here. Watching the film makes you appreciate how fragile our democracy is, especially (and perhaps ironically) in the information age. When we frame something as a referendum, we have the sense that we are encouraging … Continue reading HBO’s Brexit →