Stone Soup: Young Scholars Report on ABA Conference Programs

Don’t you hate it when you want to go to two or three conference programs scheduled at the same time?  Or if you miss a great program because you can’t go to the conference at all?  Or, after you get home from a conference, you can’t remember some great insights you had there? Serendipitously, Linda … Continue reading Stone Soup: Young Scholars Report on ABA Conference Programs

The New Handshake:  Using ODR to Create Value for Consumers and Businesses

I joined the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s Publications Board, which recruits people to write books, reviews book proposals, and oversees the Section’s bookselling operation.  I came to appreciate the importance of selling the Section’s books, both as a way to help finance the Section and to disseminate our ideas.  As part of that effort, … Continue reading The New Handshake:  Using ODR to Create Value for Consumers and Businesses

Backhanded Compliments

Those of us who teach negotiation often focus on building rapport and being attentive to relational dynamics. Expressing appreciation is part of the negotiator’s skillset, and giving compliments falls somewhere in this area. But how do we do this effectively? A new study explores the effectiveness of the “backhanded compliment” in interpersonal dynamics. As it … Continue reading Backhanded Compliments

Frisbie on the World Mediation Congress at Loyola Chicago

And you thought basketball is what put Loyola-Chicago on the map.  TFOI Teresa Frisbie provides this first-hand report about the World Mediation Congress, which Loyola recently hosted. The 300+ mediators, judges, attorneys and students at the International Academy of Dispute Resolution World Mediation Congress and 17th annual international mediation tournament held in March at Loyola … Continue reading Frisbie on the World Mediation Congress at Loyola Chicago

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