I’m heading back to Oklahoma to spend the holidays with my folks, and I won’t be on the blog while I’m away – as if I’ve been doing much posting since I’ve started grading (only 10 more papers left and I’m done – yay!). In the meantime I thought I’d leave you with some holiday cheer … Continue reading Happy Hollydays, er uh, Holidays
The journal’s deadline, for submissions as I understand it, is January 11, and articles can be sent to submissions@cojcr.org. From an email I received earlier this evening from their Editor-in-Chief, I understand that they have a particular interest in articles discussion “practical applications of ADR, although anything is welcome.” MM
A colleague, Professor Stewart Harris, recently published a piece in The Law Teacher with the catchy title: “Sometimes, We Really Do Suck” available at http://lawteaching.org/lawteacher/2009fall/lawteacher2009fall.pdf. (scroll to page 18). Professor Harris wrote about student evaluations and recommends that professors should regularly look at the written student evaluations and seriously consider how to make changes to … Continue reading So, what did you think of the class?
We have an interesting political issue here in Phoenix that touches on apologies, a topic of great interest to many in the ADR world. In a rather routine sentencing hearing at the Superior Court in the midst of defense counsel’s arguments to the court, a detention officer took a document out of the defense attorney’s … Continue reading Apology and Contempt
A fun article in the NYT last week (hat tip to Bobbi McAdoo for sending this along) noted a new way of taking advantage of those too inebriated to turn down empirical scientists–run experiments on them! The scientists were interested in how the ultimatum game works when people are a little fuzzy in their thinking. The ultimatum … Continue reading Drinking Games and Negotiation
Melissa Manwaring asked me to post a brief announcement regarding the great “On Teaching” columns in the Negotiation Journal. I often find these columns incredibly helpful so I hope that some of us take her up on the offer below: Negotiation Journal (published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and Blackwell Publishing) … Continue reading Negotiation Journal Seeks Submissions
Last week’s coverage of the pending purchase of NBC by cable giant Comcast reminded me of Jamie Moffitt’s paper presented at the Works in Progress conference last month. Jamie’s article, entitled Merging in the Shadow of the Law: Why Judicial Efficiency Analysis Matters examines current judicial interpretation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act through the lens of … Continue reading Is NBC Bargaining in the Shadow of Fuzzy Antitrust Law?
Nancy Welsh of Penn State has sent out a reminder email, soliciting papers for their upcoming conference focusing on Iqbal. See below for details. There is SO much to be said about that case, both from an ADR and an CivPro perspective. I hope that the folks at Penn State will make the proceedings available … Continue reading Call for Iqbal Papers
Michael Moffitt
Earlier this Fall, Larry Susskind visited the University of Oregon as part of an ongoing speaker series we host, exploring the intersection of ADR and Environmental and Natural Resources Law. Larry spoke (occasionally provocatively) about current notions of public participation and deliberative democracy. An audio recording of his remarks is available at: http://enr.uoregon.edu/media/fireside5_f09.mp3 Michael Moffitt
