The New York Times last week posted this article about how costumes reveal much about the lawyers wearing them. (See article & pictures here) Apparently, a lawyers for a foreclosure law firm in upstate New York thought it would be hilarious and appropriate to dress up as the homeless or poor for their annual Halloween party. … Continue reading Halloween Evils?
In about a week, Russ Feingold will be visiting the University of Oregon. Most in the ADR community know Feingold best for his work promoting the Arbitration Fairness Act in the Senate for many years. This is not a “yay for us” posting. This is an “I need help” posting. As part of Senator Feingold’s … Continue reading What Would You Ask Russ Feingold ? (an actual request for help)
According to a four-judge panel of New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, collective arbitration is not the same as class arbitration, such that the Supreme Court’s holding in Stolt-Nielsen (precluding class arbitration if the arbitration agreement is silent on the issue) does not apply to a collective of more than 700 Jet Blue pilots seeking … Continue reading Is collective arbitration the same thing as class arbitration?
The judges of the Delaware Chancery Court have been sued in the US District Court for operating a private arbitration system. The case of Delaware Coaltion for Open Government v. The Honorable Leo E. Streine, Jr. was filed yesterday, October 25th. Several years ago the legislature passed a law authorizing the court to conduct private arbitrations entitled “Arbitration Proceedings for … Continue reading Delaware’s Arbitration System for Business Disputes – Unconstitutional?
The Kellogg School of Management and the Dispute Resolution Research Center (Northwestern’s B-School and Law School) are hosting their 6th Negotiation and Teamwork Teaching Workshop on Saturday Nov. 12, 2011. I went to this workshop several years ago and found it very much worth my time. In fact, it caused me to change how I teach several topics, most … Continue reading Negotiation Teaching Workshop – Northwestern University
While in the midst of preparing for my upcoming negotiation class on culture, gender and race, I ran across an interesting (and discouraging) empirical study looking at the impact of race on eBay auctions that was recently posted on SSRN. The article is “Race Effects on Ebay” by Ian Ayres, Mahzarin Banaji, and Christine Jolls. … Continue reading “Race Effects on Ebay”
Jonathan Hyman (Rutgers) has posted The Roots of Impasse in the Mind of the Mediator, a book chapter in Definitive Creative Impasse-Breaking Techniques in Mediation (Molly Klapper ed., 2011). The abstract: Impasse in mediation can arise on a fundamental level from differences in the cognitive frameworks within which the participants – and the mediator – … Continue reading Hyman on the Roots of Impasse
The Fordham Law Dispute Resolution Society is holding its Sixth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium entitled: Judicial Review of ADR Processes: What Makes Sense? It will be on November 4, 2011 at Fordham Law School in New York. The keynote speaker will be Professor Nancy Welsh from Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law. The … Continue reading Fordham ADR Symposium
This year’s AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference will be taking place two weeks from today at Creighton Law School. The folks at the Werner Institute have put together a wonderful program that promises to please. The conference web site is here, the abstracts of the papers to be presented are here (btw – that’s a great … Continue reading 5th Annual AALS ADR Section WIP Conference, Nov. 4th and 5th
So I have been working on a book chapter stemming from the Beijing conference on Rethinking Negotiation last May concerning differences in negotiation behavior that we observed between Chinese law students and U.S. law students. I’m not ready to post on the chapter yet (!), but I did recently come across two different quotes and … Continue reading Lincoln v. Confucius: Shedding Light on Cross-Cultural Ethics?
