About ten years ago, Jayanth (Jay) Krishnan (Indiana-Bloomington) invited me to participate in a symposium of former students of Prof. Marc Galanter honoring his great scholarship. I was delighted to accept the invitation because I don’t think that many of our DR colleagues know much about his work and I wanted to introduce it to … Continue reading Case Study on International Dispute Resolution Intervention
Stacie Strong (Missouri) has several recently published articles and several forthcoming articles. Here is the list: Arbitration of Trust Disputes: Issues in National and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). The book itself is available here and the opening chapter is here. “The Reasons Behind Reasoned Arbitration Awards,” 34 Alternatives to the High Cost of … Continue reading Strong on Arbitration and Other Topics
Noam Ebner (Creighton) has recently published “Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Education in the Age of the MOOC” in the Negotiation Journal, available here. The abstract: Even as online learning is increasingly embraced by institutions of higher education, the past decade has seen the arrival of yet another new educational vehicle: massive online open courses (MOOCs). … Continue reading Ebner on Negotiation Education via MOOC
Following up the Tower of Babel Symposium this month, there will be a program at the ABA SDR conference next April entitled, “Making Negotiation Theory More Helpful for Practitioners.” We want to include a practitioner on the panel and we asked Wayne Brazil if he would join us. Wayne served as a magistrate judge in … Continue reading Tower of Babel Symposium Bonus – Conversation with Wayne Brazil
Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Irvine) has several recently published articles. Here is the list: “The Future of Mediation Worldwide: Legal and Cultural Variations in the Update of or Resistance to Mediation,” in Essays on Mediation (ed. Ian Macduff 2016). download “Ethics of Compromise,” in the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2016). download “In … Continue reading Menkel-Meadow on Mediation, Transitional Justice, and Other Topics
Many of us spend a lot of time thinking about and teaching our students about the fine art of listening. So this morning when I found out about a law blog devoted to listening, Listen Like a Lawyer, I had to check it out. Jennifer Murphy Romig (Emory) curates the blog and describes it as … Continue reading Listen Like a Lawyer
Doug Frenkel (Pennsylvania) and Jim Stark (Connecticut) recently published “Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?” in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, available here. The abstract: When people are placed in a partisan role or otherwise have an objective they seek to accomplish, they are prone to pervasive cognitive and motivational biases. These judgmental distortions … Continue reading Frenkel and Stark on Mediation and Debiasing
The presidential election campaign this year has provided several teachable moments for law students and lawyers and this post focuses on one of them. Unless you have been hibernating for the past few weeks, you know that a number of women have accused Republican candidate Donald J. Trump of sexual misconduct. Mr. Trump and his … Continue reading Why Don’t People Complain? Implications for Defense Counsel. And Some Practical Ethics Hypos for Students.
On November 4, 2016, The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution hosts “Philosophy, Technology, and ADR: Examining Development in Dispute Resolution Systems”, (register here; details here) a Symposium in honor of our late Dean Chris Fairman. The symposium line-up is cutting-edge and reflective: • Moritz negotiation Professor Katrina Lee will host the morning conversation with … Continue reading Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution hosts “Philosophy, Technology, and ADR: Examining Development in Dispute Resolution Systems” on November 4th at Moritz
As you may have heard, we held the Moving Negotiation Theory from the Tower of Babel Toward a World of Mutual Understanding symposium at the University of Missouri on October 7. We had a lively discussion about what the heck is negotiation, how to know what really happens in negotiation, the role of context in … Continue reading Some Highlights of the Tower of Babel Symposium
