From AFOI Alyson Carrel: Last month, there were four interviews to celebrate the launch of the new book, Discussions in Dispute Resolution. Here is a link to a website featuring recordings of all four interviews. March 4 – Carrie Menkel-Meadow interviewed by Art Hinshaw about her article, Pursuing Settlement in an Adversary Culture: A Tale … Continue reading Past and Future Events
This whole month, I have been blogging about how different women could and should be used to teach negotiation under the theory that, if we normalized women as negotiation role models, we would all be socialized to expect that this is part of general human behavior rather than something masculine. To end Women’s History Month, … Continue reading Finding Your Own Role Model
Yale law professor Judith Resnik has penned an op-ed calling for passage of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIRA). That shouldn’t be a surprise based on her work on democratic values and arbitration over the years. However, she dug into some data and . . . . well, check out the excerpt below. Advocates … Continue reading Resnik – Unlocking the Courts: Ending Arbitration Mandates and Gag Orders
Despite the new criteria for the USNews law school rankings (story here), there are no reports of anything other than reputational votes being counted for the ADR specialty rankings. And the average score out of 5 is reported below as well. The big news is that we have a new entrant in the top … Continue reading 2022 USNews ADR Rankings
I recently gave a presentation to the ABA SDR’s Early Dispute Resolution Committee and I planned to write a blog post summarizing the presentation. Well, that post grew into this draft paper, Survey of Early Dispute Resolution Movements and Possible Next Steps. I have been studying EDR for 20 years and this overgrown blog post … Continue reading Survey of Early Dispute Resolution Movements and Possible Next Steps
From MFOI Lydia Nussbaum The UNLV Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution will host Professor Alia Malek on Thursday, April 8 at noon PDT for a virtual talk as part of its “Peace in the Desert” Speakers Series. Her presentation is entitled “When Home Is Unattainable, What Replaces It?” Professor Malek began her professional career as … Continue reading UNLV Hosts Speaker to Discuss Peace in the Desert
There’s too darn much ADR research. Too darn much if you have any hope of keeping up with it. We are blessed and cursed with an interest in a subject that deals with virtually every aspect of life and is studied in many different disciplines. So we are fortunate that Jim Coben and Donna Stienstra … Continue reading Coben & Stienstra’s Fabulous Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Research
From GFOI Richard Peterson: The USC Gould Center for Dispute Resolution and JAMS are holding their fifth annual symposium with two upcoming webinars Wednesday, April 14, 2021 The Arbitrator’s Approach to Contract Interpretation Issues: Civil vs. Common Law Perspectives 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 a.m. Eastern / 5:00 p.m. London / 11:00 p.m. Singapore … Continue reading USC Gould Center for Dispute Resolution Fifth Annual Symposium
I don’t know about you but it actually felt a little funny to have Tony Blinken named as Secretary of State. I mean isn’t that a job for a woman? The lovely thing is that there is already a generation of women and men in the US that think that job is typically handled by … Continue reading Women Make Great Secretaries…of State
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University is inviting applications for up to two positions as Visiting Assistant Professor. We are not looking for any specific areas, so DR scholars are in the mix. VAPs have traditionally taught a first-year course, so I presume that will be expected going forward. Some … Continue reading Arizona State Seeks 2 Visiting Associate Professors
Last week Andrea Schneider had an insightful interview with Bob Mnookin as part of the virtual book launch for Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles (book and book launch details here). Once the video is posted, we will provide a link in case you missed it. What interesting things will we learn from this … Continue reading Discussions in Dispute Resolution Virtual Book Launch – Final Round with Len Riskin
This week for women’s history month, I’ll be turning toward the “professionals”–those women whose job clearly includes negotiation–and highlight how their negotiation and leadership skills should be celebrated. The skill set demonstrated by these successful leaders could be characterized as balancing assertiveness and empathy. Or being willing to both listen and make hard decisions. Walk … Continue reading Some new negotiation catchphrases: What Would Jacinda Do? Or Learn to Merkeln.