My recent piece about introversion seems to have struck a nerve. It stimulated the most – and most intense – reactions to any of my posts. Several people emphatically identified with it, saying that they felt that it was about them. I’m sure a lot of other readers felt that way too. Introversion is a … Continue reading Coming Out as Introverted
From the New York Times, a fascinating article about “prison consultants” and how they can help people heading to prison with sentencing for white collar convictions. You’d think that the lawyer would be helping the client with sentencing. But that’s not always how things work, according to author Jack Hitt. “A lawyer is your legal … Continue reading Negotiating Prison
Do you often feel introverted, generally preferring to be in a small group of trusted friends than in a large gathering, for example? It turns out that there are a lot of people who feel that way. Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, cites studies … Continue reading Introversion, the Legal Profession, and Dispute Resolution
The ABA has published three books by Brooklyn Law Professor and Director of Legal Writing Heidi K. Brown to help law students and lawyers improve their well-being and function optimally. It just released The Flourishing Lawyer: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Performance and Well-Being (2022). She previously published The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically … Continue reading Heidi Brown’s Books Promoting Flourishing and Effective Practitioners
We all live, and we all will die some day. For most of our lives, our deaths seem like they will happen at some unknown time far in the future. Not so for Australian writer Cory Taylor when she died of cancer at age 61. In the last few weeks of her life, she produced … Continue reading Living, Dying, and Life After Death
This October, the University of Oregon School of Law will be hosting the 15th annual AALS ADR Section Works in Progress Conference. This is one of the best ADR conferences of the year, and we are thrilled to be hosting it again in Eugene! Please check out the conference website for more information and to … Continue reading 15th Annual WIP Conference
HBO recently presented a great two-part documentary, George Carlin’s American Dream. He started as a conventional, clean-cut comic in the 1960s, and evolved into a counterculture icon in the 1970s. He continued performing until shortly before his death in 2008. This post is another in my What I’m Reading series. Mr. Carlin really came to … Continue reading HBO Documentary on Social Critic George Carlin
This is a belated announcement of this year’s ABA Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work given to Stacie Strong. She now teaches at the University of Sydney Law School, where she is the co-director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. In her remarks accepting the award, she generously credited help from colleagues at … Continue reading Stacie Strong Receives ABA Dispute Resolution Section Scholarship Award
We don’t post a lot of scholarship updates here as there are many better outlets for that, but once and a while something comes out that catches our attention – such as this. Excellent empiricists Jessica Bregant (Houston), Jennifer Robbennolt (Illinois), and Verity Winship (Illinois) have a very interesting paper up on SSRN titled Perceptions … Continue reading Bregant, Robbennolt, and Winship – Perceptions on Settlement
News broke earlier this week that another ADR law school dean has been appointed. Brian Pappas – Fulbright Scholar, Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs at Eastern Michigan, incoming ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Chair, and former law faculty at Michigan State – is coming back to legal academia to be Dean at the University … Continue reading Pappas named Dean at North Dakota
