Today on NPR’s Morning Edition StoryCore interview, the father of a victim of a school shooting (Greg Gibson) and the shooter who killed his son (Wayne Lo) talked about the event and their lives 25 years after the incident. Gibson wrote a book about the event and he talked to everyone – except for Lo. … Continue reading Restorative Justice and Apologies
The Stone Soup Project is a collaborative effort to develop and share knowledge, not only about actual practice of dispute resolution and law, but also about pedagogical techniques to maximize the benefit from Stone Soup assignments and activities. Faculty using Stone Soup are assessing how well it worked in their courses and providing advice … Continue reading Stone Soup Course Assessments
Peter Phillips, the director of New York Law School’s ADR Skills Program, used Stone Soup in his negotiation course this semester. In his assessment, he wrote that the interview assignment was an excellent fit for his course, which helped students see in practice the theory they learned in class. He told me that students … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Peter Phillips’s Negotiation Course
This time from Bud Light. Watch the video of the town crier reading the letter, which asks a Minnesota brewery to cease and desist using Bud Light’s trademarked “Dilly Dilly” in the name of brewery’s newly released “Dilly Dilly Mosaic Double IPA.” (If that link doesn’t work, try this one.) The transcript of the letter: … Continue reading Another Creative Cease-and-Desist
I just saw this abstract on SSRN — looks like a very interesting study that is, to me, not surprising, but a little depressing: “Thanks for Nothing: Expressing Gratitude Invites Exploitation by Competitors” Harvard PON Working Paper JEREMY A. YIP, University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School Email: yip@wharton.upenn.edu CINDY CHAN, University of Toronto – … Continue reading Expressing Gratitude in Negotiations May Not Be A Good Idea?!
We all say that preparation is important – it’s more popular than mom and apple pie – but we have only vague ideas about how people actually consider possible alternatives. This includes the negotiators themselves. We sometimes list general factors or approaches, but usually that’s as far as we get. I will go out on … Continue reading Stone Soup: Learning How People Actually Prepare for Negotiation and Mediation
Out of the blue, I got an email from a student at my university who I had never met. She said that her best friend is graduating from college this month and will start law school in the fall. As a graduation present, she is collecting letters with advice for her friend and she asked … Continue reading Letter to Kelly
I have written a lot recently about apologies (and non-apologies), most recently a post focusing on Louis C.K.’s apology (which links to prior posts). Today, the New York Times ran a piece entitled “Mea Culpa. Kinda Sorta.” in which several writers parse the language in the apologies of Charlie Rose, Al Franken, Louis C.K., Kevin … Continue reading Mea Culpa. Kinda Sorta.
Scholastica, the service many of us use to disseminate our articles to law reviews, recently interviewed Donna Shestowsky (UC-Davis) about her work on litigant awareness of court ADR programs. Here’s the interview in full. Imagine waiting a year or more to go to trial for a civil dispute that could have been resolved in less … Continue reading Scholastica interview with Shestowsky
On October 27, HLS hosted a series of panels as part of its bicentennial celebration. I was fortunate to serve as a panelist on Negotiation for Lawyers: A Bird’s Eye View of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, along with Mark Iwry, David Hoffman, Sheila Heen, and Bob Mnookin. We modeled our panel after the NPR program, … Continue reading ADR Stories at Harvard Bicentennial
