From our colleague Peter Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia and the Director of Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, (more on him here), we have a request to help on some important empirical research. It sounds like a great project–I already filled out the survey and encourage you to do so … Continue reading Cross-Cultural Management Study
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
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
Thanks once again to Sharon Press and Bobbi McAdoo for the invaluable service of compiling resources as part of the ABA Legal Educators’ Colloquium. Sharon wrote: “I hope the end of the semester is going well for you. Bobbi and I wanted to be sure you had the “final” version of the Resource Share before … Continue reading Latest and Greatest Resource Share
Many readers know (or know of) Canadian(-based) colleagues Michelle LeBaron and Julie Macfarlane. Michelle does incredibly creative work on conflict and culture. Julie has done a lot of empirical research, including studies on mediation, collaborative law, Sharia Law, and self-represented litigants. I especially like her article, Culture Change – A Tale of Two Cities and … Continue reading Cool Canadian Colleagues
Continuing my tradition, I took photos of folks at the recent ABA Section of Dispute Resolution conference. You can click here to see the photo collections I previously posted, along with an explanation of what they represent. Below are pictures from the conference, which are limited to shots (1) of people with whom I happened … Continue reading Photo Album: 2018 ABA SDR Conference
FOI Jean Sternlight (UNLV) brings us this conference opportunity from the city that may lay claim to the home of the most trade shows. Have you ever thought about the exciting disputes that can arise at trade shows? In Las Vegas, we have, as our city hosts many trade shows. If you want to get … Continue reading Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution at Trade Shows
From Ben Davis, Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Dear Colleagues, Here are the upcoming programs through the end of June for the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. Advanced Arbitration Series Webinar #6: Ethical Aspects to Consider While Building an Arbitration Practice Apr. 25, 2018, Web Mid-Atlantic Chapter May Brownbag: Restorative Justice: Mediation … Continue reading Upcoming ABA DR Section Programs
From my fabulous assistant Carrie, here is a lovely video from Disney Junior that I’ll be including when teaching about gender and what changes in society need to be made! For more on this, see Negotiating While Female…
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
