It was great seeing many of you at the AALS meetings in blistering cold New Orleans over the weekend. Yup, it was damn cold, and my tolerance for cold weather has dramatically dipped since my move to warm and sunny Arizona. I’ll be blogging later about the paneled discussion on negotiation ethics I participated in (thanks … Continue reading AALS redux
The Chronicle of Higher Education has run a couple stories recently (here) about professors who have incorporated their scholarly disciplines into their tattoos in one way or another. (A chemist named Esther getting the chemical formula for an ester linkage. An anthropologist with an early hominid skull. A linguist with a symbol from the international … Continue reading Tattoos and Dispute Resolution
Jean Sternlight has sent out an announcement about this year’s Boskey Writing Competition, in search of student entrants and faculty readers. Its content is available at: http://www.abanet.org/dispute/essaycomp.html Michael Moffitt
If you are heading to the AALS conference in New Orleans later this week, I want to bring your attention to the ADR Section’s panel on negotiation ethics on Friday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:45pm. The program is entitled, Overcoming the Difficulties of Teaching Negotiation Ethics, and a short description is below. This is going to be … Continue reading An AALS Panel You Won’t Want to Miss
When do mediation and boxing go together? Answer: in the strange case of scheduling a championship boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Yes, these two fighters have scheduled a mediation to help schedule a boxing match. Just to give a little bit of background, these two boxers are considered the best pound-for-pound fighters in the … Continue reading Mediation and Boxing
I’m sure that most of the country now knows that despite their underdog status, the Buckeyes trounced (perhaps a slight exaggeration) the Oregon Ducks in what became a very fun Rose Bowl to watch!! I won’t hold Michael to his bet although I am curious about the Filberts (did I even spell that correctly?). Way … Continue reading Awaiting Filberts?
The folks at the Saltman Center at UNLV are hosting a conference on ADR and the economic crisis, February 12-13, 2010. The program includes a look at foreclosure mediation, arbitration and bankruptcy, and the effects of the economy on community and court mediation programs. The topics and the speaker list look fantastic! For details: http://www.law.unlv.edu/pdf/SaltmanCenterConference_Feb2010_program.pdf … Continue reading Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis
Sarah Cole offered a wager of a box of buckeyes, looking forward to the Rose Bowl. I’m not entirely sure what category of ADR theory this would fall under. Because the standard ADR lexicon doesn’t recognize “Ways to Surrender a Box of Buckeyes” as one of the field’s core principles, I guess we can shove … Continue reading Of Roses and Contingent Agreements
The only thing these two movies have in common is that I recently saw each movie. Both of these movies also have some interesting and vastly different views of dispute resolution. Avatar is the classic tale of corporate/colonial greed at the expense of a native population. Some of the humans take the form of avatars … Continue reading Avatar and Invictus
Because I was screaming so much at the television yesterday during the Steelers-Packers game…. It was hard to outscream my three boys but I am proud to say that I am up to the task (my students would not doubt this ability). Following up on my post from last February on football mania, there is definitely something … Continue reading I Can’t Speak
