Ben Davis:  Fun with Technology, Arbitration Clauses and a Mock International Commercial Arbitration

Here’s an exercise that TFOI Ben Davis uses and wants to share. I just came across a tool that might be of interest on building arbitration clauses.  The only thing that I would add would be a reminder about Frederic Eisemann’s article on Pathological Arbitration Clauses (La Clause d’arbitrage pathologique, Commercial Arbitration Essays in Memoriam … Continue reading Ben Davis:  Fun with Technology, Arbitration Clauses and a Mock International Commercial Arbitration →

Stone Soup Assessment: Carrie Kaas’s Externship Course

  It would be hard to be more enthusiastic about Stone Soup than Carolyn Wilkes (Carrie) Kaas, the Co-Director of Quinnipiac’s Center on Dispute Resolution, Director of Experiential Education, as well as Director of Concentration Programs in Family Law and Civil Advocacy and Dispute Resolution.  These days, she also teaches Quinnipiac’s Externship Program. Like a … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Carrie Kaas’s Externship Course →

Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Four Mediation Courses, by Charlie Irvine, Jim Levin, Martha Simmons, and Doug Yarn

  This post describes how Stone Soup pioneers used four different approaches in their mediation courses.  Once again, it demonstrates colleagues’ creativity and the great potential for Stone Soup. Charlie Irvine had 20 LLM / MSc students and he assigned them to interview a mediator about a recent case.  Students were required to write papers … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Four Mediation Courses, by Charlie Irvine, Jim Levin, Martha Simmons, and Doug Yarn →

Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Five ADR Courses, by Andrea Schneider, Bob Ackerman, Becky Jacobs, Doug Yarn, and Derrick Howard

  This post describes five different approaches to using Stone Soup in ADR courses.  It reflects the incredible flexibility of this project and the creativity of faculty in tailoring Stone Soup assignments to fit their goals and circumstances.  Even when the assignments don’t work as planned, we can learn valuable lessons from these experiences. Andrea … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Five ADR Courses, by Andrea Schneider, Bob Ackerman, Becky Jacobs, Doug Yarn, and Derrick Howard →

Stone Soup Assessment:  Rafael Gely’s Negotiation Course

  I am extremely fortunate that Rafael Gely, the director of Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, has been my partner in developing the Stone Soup Project. A year ago, when I first emailed him about it, the subject line was “a crazy idea?”  Rafael’s immediate response was, “I love this idea!  (Of … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment:  Rafael Gely’s Negotiation Course →

Stone Soup Assessment: Bob Dauber’s Evidence Course

  Much legal education in the US is like telling someone how to ride a bike or having them read an instruction manual.  It’s important, but most people wouldn’t get very far if that’s all you did.  You could simply give them a bike and tell them to go, but that could lead to some … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Bob Dauber’s Evidence Course →

DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Israel’s Military Courts: Adjudicating Alleged (Palestinian) Crime and Terror in the West Bank and Gaza

Maureen Weston (Pepperdine) provides this intriguing post from the Ofer military base in Israel. The conflict over the sacred land in the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, in Israel is deeply rooted and profoundly intense.  This region has been under rule by the Turks in the Ottoman Empire (1517- 1917), Britain (1917-48), Jordan (1948-67), … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Israel’s Military Courts: Adjudicating Alleged (Palestinian) Crime and Terror in the West Bank and Gaza →

Mosten and Scully’s New Book on Unbundled Legal Services

I have known Forrest (Woody) Mosten for quite a while.  He co-authored several articles on collaborative law with me, putting him at risk of tarnishing his stellar reputation.  We also co-authored an article, Family Lawyering:  Past, Present, and Future.  Much more significantly, Woody is known as the “father of unbundling” (as well as being a … Continue reading Mosten and Scully’s New Book on Unbundled Legal Services →

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