California State University – Dominguez Hills is searching for two faculty members in its Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding Program. The first position is for the Director of the Program, which would include being a tenured professor. Two blurbs from the announcement: The Position – Serve as director of the program; provide course scheduling, curriculum … Continue reading Cal-State Dominguez Hills is Hiring
Led by Professor Ron Aronovsky, Southwestern Law School did a first-class job of hosting the AALS Dispute Resolution Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference this weekend. The conference is always one of the highlights of the Dispute Resolution community’s academic year, offering a unique opportunity for scholars in the field to congregate and share ideas. This year’s conference … Continue reading Kudos to Southwestern for a Great WIP Conference
I write from the WIP Conference at beautiful Southwestern Law School in LA with the following news: Paul Kirgis has been named Dean of Montana Law School. He will be starting on July 1, 2015. Congratulations Paul!
“Oh Boy! A fight.” That’s often what I say in class when students vigorously disagree. I like these “fights” because they usually lead to helpful discussions that clarify differing views. So when Andrea wrote her post, Puffing Sucks, I thought, “Oh Boy! A fight.” She argues that puffing is “[l]ying, through and through,” and that … Continue reading Some Puffing Sucks . . . But Developing Good Relationships Is More Likely to be Effective than a New Rule
Arbitration critics often make assertions about the impact of arbitration clauses hidden in the fine print of employment and consumer contracts. In the short film Lost in the Fine Print, for example, Robert Reich bases much of his critique of what the movie calls “forced arbitration” on the lack of meaningful consumer understanding of—and therefore … Continue reading Testing Assumptions about Consumer Understanding of Arbitration
I am one of several people on the LEAPS committee who scans certain blogs to identify people who may not be familiar with LEAPS and let them know about it. So I subscribe to the Best Practices for Legal Education blog and the blog for IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal … Continue reading Resources about the FRCP and Legal Education
Donna Erez Navot (Wisconsin) recently published an article entitled Tools for the Clinical Professor: Applying Group Development Theory to Collaborative Learning in Law School Mediation Clinics. An abstract is below and the article can be downloaded here. This article examines the theory of group development and collaborative learning as applied to the small group … Continue reading Navot on Tools for the Clinical Professor
We often think of negotiation as a distinct and climactic phase of a dispute. Interactions leading up to the final settlement event are often considered merely as preparation, if that. In litigated cases, we often ignore the litigation as if it was largely irrelevant to the information available and the dynamics in negotiation. I base … Continue reading What is Negotiation?, Part 2
Our wonderful colleague and fellow blogger, Jill Gross, has been named the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at Pace Law School. She will be giving a lecture on November 12, 2014 at noon at Pace, entitled, “Setting the Record Straight: The Supreme Court and 21st Century Arbitration”. We at the blog are very proud … Continue reading Professor Jill Gross to give Hopkins Lecture on Arbitration on November 12th
With no one to edit my language here :-), let’s call a spade a spade. My thanks to John and Art for starting a really interesting conversation about puffery. Teaching both ethics and negotiation, the crossroads of “puffing” in negotiation is something that I get to talk about twice. And it drives me crazy. It’s … Continue reading Puffing Sucks
