The word of the month for August is a phrase: “touch grass.” Gamers will tell you that the phrase “touch grass” is slang for “go outside,” and that the phrase is deployed when someone is spending an inordinate (inordinate even by gamer standards!) amount of time online. I’ve been told that the term is somewhat … Continue reading August: Touch Grass
If there’s anything approaching unanimity in our field, it’s that it’s important to prepare in dispute resolution processes like mediation. So it’s almost boring to write about it. But I found some things that should be interesting and helpful for parties, practitioners, and mediation program administrators. Last December, I wrote a short article, The Critical … Continue reading How Can Courts – Practically for Free – Help Parties Prepare for Mediation Sessions?
India’s chequered history with arbitration may soon take another turn after the Central Government announced the formation of an Expert Committee to consider further reforms to the 1996 Arbitration and Conciliation Act. The Expert Committee is chaired by the decorated lawyer and law professor T.K. Vishwanathan. India was one of the early adopters of the … Continue reading New Arbitration Reforms on the Horizon for India?
How cool would it be for your students to interview lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, or other practitioners about how they really think and act in their work? Practitioners generally develop their own categories of routine and challenging situations in their work, and they develop regular practices and strategies for dealing with them. In mediation, this involves … Continue reading Teaching Students How Practitioners Really Think and Act
This year’s AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 13 and 14 at Quinnipiac and Yale. The deadline for submitting proposals has been extended until Friday, August 4, at midnight Eastern Time. The conference will have a hybrid format, with some presentations in person and some by video. The … Continue reading WIP Conference Deadline is Extended Until August 4
I am delighted – – for our field, for our colleagues at Stanford, and for our colleague Grande – – to share the news that Grande Lum was formally announced yesterday as the new Director of Stanford’s Negotiation and Mediation Program. I suspect strongly that Grande is familiar to everyone reading this blog, but just … Continue reading Grande Lum – New Director of Stanford Law School’s Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program
From Maria Volpe (CUNY) Submission deadline: Friday, 1 December 2023 COVID 19 has had a global impact on virtually everything, including the work of conflict resolvers (Phillip-Jones, 2001). It is important that the lived experiences of those who were engaged in any conflict resolution work as practitioners, trainers, scholars, researchers and teachers be memorialized (Blake, … Continue reading CRQ Call for papers: Lived experiences of conflict resolvers during the COVID pandemic
Elayne Greenberg published an article in the Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice that is very timely: High Anxiety: Racism, the Law, and Legal Education. Here’s the abstract: Conspicuously absent from the United States’ ongoing discourse about its racist history is a more honest discussion about the individual and personal stressors … Continue reading Elayne Greenberg: “High Anxiety: Racism, the Law, and Legal Education”
The word of the month for July is “pono.” In Hawaiian, pono loosely translates to “truth and justice” or “righteousness.” The state motto of Hawai’i is: “Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ‘Aina i ka Pono,” which means “the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.” Truth. Justice. Righteousness. Sounds like the tagline of … Continue reading July: Pono
Here is latest installment of ADR Scholarship Projects, compiled by Peter Reilly (Texas A&M). It is so wonderful to see all the fabulous work being produced by members of our community. Ava Abramowitz (GW Law) and Ken Webb (Kenn Webb Consulting, LLC) This is the third update on our research into what communication behaviors mediators … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects (June 2023)
