Tomorrow I’m off to the 6th Annual Works-in-Progress Conference, which is being most capably hosted by the Moritz School of Law at Ohio State. As you’d expect, many of the Indisputably crew will be there to participate in and report on the event. I hope we can do some live-blogging of the presentations and post about … Continue reading See you at the Works-in-Progress Conference
My friend and colleague Sheila Heen, co-author of the well-known book, Difficult Conversations, just wrote a wonderful column for the New York Times, entitled Sleeping with the (Political) Enemy, all about how she and her husband John Richardson (also a negotiation and conflict resolution expert) manage to communicate about their vast political differences. I read it … Continue reading Sleeping with (or Being Related to) the Enemy
I link here to a great post from my colleague Irene Ten Cate on how the world of arbitration needs to incorporate more women–even by asking for binders of them! This is a timely concern duly noted in the latest Alternatives newsletter with an article by Laura A. Kaster and in an column in the … Continue reading Binders Full of Women Arbitrators
The international community, through a number of organizations, regularly observes elections in countries around the world. Election observation is one method of preventing election disputes from evolving into violent conflict, particularly in countries with less developed or less trusted judicial systems. The hope is that election observation by neutral outsiders will provide a peaceful forum … Continue reading Watching the Vote
The Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) at Harvard Law School is looking for a Clinical Instructor to begin a three-year term appointment on July 1, 2013. If you are interested in supervising clinical projects for HNMCP, as well as teaching on the Spring Negotiation Workshop teaching team, you can find a full job … Continue reading HNMCP seeking clinical instructor
From FOI Bryan Hanson (Creighton): October is here and Cyberweek 2012 is just a couple weeks away! Please make sure you save the dates of October 28th to November 2nd and join us online for what promises to be a wonderful week of exploration and discussion regarding online dispute resolution. Registration and information are both … Continue reading Cyberweek 2012 is almost here
Another guest posting from FOI Jean Sternlight (UNLV). ————————- With the demise of class actions (thank you Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion) consumer advocates are struggling to find a way to continue to fight corporate malfeasance. Several consumer advocates have formed an organization, Consumers Count, which is designed to help unite multiple consumers … Continue reading Class Actions are Dead, Long Live Social Media?
This entire week we are celebrating ABA Mediation Week. Here is the ABA’s announcement of the event: Over the last few decades, the field of alternative dispute resolution has grown tremendously. The recognition that not all cases are well suited for the adversarial process and that there are multiple paths to justice is increasingly shared … Continue reading Happy Mediation Week!
From FOI Noam Ebner (Creighton): Assessing our Students, Assessing Ourselves, published this spring and unveiled at the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution’ Spring Conference in Washington, D.C, is the third and most recent volume in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Project series. Edited by Noam Ebner (Creighton University), James Coben (Hamline University) and Christopher … Continue reading Ebner, Coben, and Honeyman on Assessing Students
The UN recently released its guidance for international mediators. Press release here. Formal document here. I can’t say that I’ve read it with great care. The first thing that jumped out at me was its treatment of the topic of impartiality. I would not have guessed the UN, in particular, to have been so insistent … Continue reading UN Guidance on Effective Mediation
