On Saturday October 2, 2010 Arizona State will be hosting the Aspiring Law Professors Conference.  Anyone who is interested in a move to legal academia can benefit from the conference, however, it is specifically designed for those who will be going to the AALS Hiring Conference for interviews later this fall.  Thus, the conference’s marketing … Continue reading Aspiring Law Professors Conference →

As I mentioned last month, I don’t know that formulas always make things clearer but an NPR story from July on handshakes might prove me wrong.  A hat tip to Natalie Fleury for this idea :   Marketplace on NPR aired a story about the science behind the handshake.  Geoffrey Beattie, a professor at the University of Manchester researching … Continue reading Handshake Science →

Creating a split with the Third and Eleventh Circuits, the Ninth Circuit has held that a mandatory arbitration clause in a credit card agreement is unenforceable under the Credit Repair Organizations Act. The case, Greenwood v. CompuCredit Corp., was a class action stemming from a credit card marketed to consumers with weak credit as a … Continue reading Circuit Split on Credit Card Arbitration →

Wallace Warfield died about a week ago, and the world of conflict resolution is now far less rich. Wallace taught at ICAR at George Mason, and he did stints with SPIDR, with ACUS, with Community Relations Service at DOJ,  with Eastern Mennonite University, and with street gang worked in NYC.  He worked in conflict zones … Continue reading Wallace Warfield 1938-2010 →

Kim Knight, the Executive Director of the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Section, has resigned her post to take a position with the AARP.  Having worked with her the last few years, I can say that she will definitely be missed.  Good luck Kim !! Here’s the announcement sent out by Wayne Thorpe, the Section’s President. Our Section … Continue reading Kim Knight Stepping Down at the ABA DR Section →

In my earlier post about Charles Craver’s most recent article, I find myself in agreement with most of what he says including his description of WIN-win negotiators. But there must be something that I disagree with him about, and that is true.  Craver claims that comment 2 to Rule 4.1 “unequivocally acknowledges” that settlement intentions … Continue reading Negotiation Ethics for Real World Interactions (Part II) →

That is the title of Charlie Craver’s article in the most recent edition of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution.  And yes, it’s about my favorite topic these days, negotiation ethics.  Craver comes from the realpolitik school of negotiation, and if you didn’t already know this, his article makes that quite clear.  I like this … Continue reading Negotiation Ethics for Real World Interactions →

I co-taught an Intensive Negotiation course last week (an exhausting 28 credits in one week), and I wanted to do an exercise demonstrating value creation to help dispel the fixed-pie bias. In my smaller, regular negotiation classes, I typically do a Snack Exchange exercise modified from the version created by Jay Folberg. But I didn’t … Continue reading Value Creation Exercise →

Monday August 30th is the deadline to respond to the RFP for the ABA DR Section Conference in Denver on April 13-16, 2011.  My original post announcing the RFP w/ a link to the announcement and submission web site can be accessed here.  If you’re like me, you’ll be getting your proposal(s) in at the wire.  🙂