Category Archives: Public Policy

Dispute Resolution and the Normalization of International Adjudication

November 11, 2008 Andrea Schneider 3 Comments

I attended a conference at NYU two weeks ago as part of NYU’s Journal of International Law & Politics symposium on the “Normalization of Adjudication in Complex International Governance Regimes.” Invited to bring a little dispute resolution to this otherwise complete adjudicatory focus, it was very interesting to think about what the “normalization” of international courts and … Continue reading Dispute Resolution and the Normalization of International Adjudication →

What mediation can teach you for the campaign trail

November 6, 2008 Andrea Schneider 4 Comments

I am linking here to a great post from Vicky Pynchon on how her mediation training helped her when she was canvassing for Barack Obama on Monday in Nevada. It is truly lovely–great story and great lessons. What did I learn on the campaign trail? Other than breaking a lifetime phobia of the cold call … Continue reading What mediation can teach you for the campaign trail →

The Proposed Bailout as a Negotiation Lesson

September 22, 2008 art hinshaw 3 Comments

Like many of you, I’ve been following the current financial crisis and the discussions of the $700 billion to $1 trillion bailout proposed by the Bush administration. I don’t claim to be an expert in the matters of finance and Wall Street, and I hope those who are knowledgeable on these issues will be able … Continue reading The Proposed Bailout as a Negotiation Lesson →

Judge Wayne D. Brazil’s Comments on Court-Connected ADR

September 15, 2008 art hinshaw

On Friday I had the opportunity to hear U.S. Magistrate Judge Wayne D. Brazil deliver the James D. Ellis Lecture at the University of Missouri School of Law. Judge Brazil is well known in ADR circles as one of the (if not the) most pro-ADR jurists in the country. His talk was an interesting retrospective of … Continue reading Judge Wayne D. Brazil’s Comments on Court-Connected ADR →

I’m Sorry Actually Works

May 19, 2008 Andrea Schneider 4 Comments

The New York Times yesterday had a front page article on how doctors have discovered that saying “I’m sorry” for medical mistakes makes a lot of sense. There is part of me that says “It’s about time!” Many of us in the field have known about this phenomenon for some time based on the research … Continue reading I’m Sorry Actually Works →

ADR: The Federal Government’s Experience

May 16, 2008 mmoffitt@uoregon.edu 1 Comment

I just read the recently-posted, to-be-published-somewhere empirical study of the use of ADR in the federal government in the late 1990s. Entitled, Dispute Resolution and the Vanishing Trial: Comparing Federal Government Litigation and ADR Outcomes, the study’s authors include Lisa Bingham, Tina Nabatchi, Jeff Senger, and Michael Scott Jackman. Their abstract reads: This study compares … Continue reading ADR: The Federal Government’s Experience →

EL-ADR (Election ADR): ADR of the future?

April 22, 2008 Sarah Cole

My colleague, Ned Foley, contemplates an Amicus Court designed to assist in resolution of election-related disputes. Ned and another colleague, Steve Huefner, are contemplating whether ADR might be useful more broadly to provide mechanisms that would assist parties in avoiding election-related disputes and/or help resolve them more peacefully and with greater buy-in. Let’s Not Repeat … Continue reading EL-ADR (Election ADR): ADR of the future? →

Defining Environmental “Conflict Resolution”

April 18, 2008 mmoffitt@uoregon.edu 1 Comment

If “conflict resolution” happened in a forest, and nobody was around to facilitate it, would it still be “conflict resolution”? In an article in the most recent Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Patricia Orr, Kirk Emerson, and Dale Keyes report on the development of an evaluation framework for conflict resolution practice in environmental and natural resource disputes. … Continue reading Defining Environmental “Conflict Resolution” →

Crisis in Dispute Resolution?

April 17, 2008 Andrea Schneider 4 Comments

This past weekend, the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution here at Marquette hosted noted scholar Bernie Mayer. Bernie was mostly speaking about his book, Beyond Neutrality and, on Saturday, was invited in a point-counterpoint format to discuss his arguments with equally well-noted practitioner Howard Bellman. One point of the discussion was about Bernie’s argument, outlined … Continue reading Crisis in Dispute Resolution? →

“Peace in the Desert” Lecture Series Webcasts Now Available

March 14, 2008 mmoffitt@uoregon.edu

Jean Sternlight at UNLV recently sent out an announcement that they have just posted webcasts of some of their recent “Peace in the Desert” lectures. http://www.law.unlv.edu/media_Events.html Among the speakers are: John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame: “The Moral Imagination: The Art and … Continue reading “Peace in the Desert” Lecture Series Webcasts Now Available →