Bill Marsh, a UK mediator and editor of the Kluwer Mediation Blog, wrote a good post about key characteristics of mediators: Warmth and Competence. He suggests that these are related to mediators’ self-reflection, authenticity, cultural competence, and timing. It’s a good, concise post you might share with your students. Take a look. [Click the title … Continue reading Important Mediator Characteristics
Delighted to announce that Marquette will be virtually hosting the last of our spring series where we get to hear and learn from some phenomenal new scholars in our field. It has been a great way to build our community so I invite you to join us for the final session of the season over … Continue reading DR WIP Consortium–Discovering New Voices in Dispute Resolution–Friday April 30
The New York Law School ADR Skills Program and American Arbitration Association will present the Steven C. Bennett Annual Program, Cutting Edge Issues in Commercial Arbitration, on Thursday, April 27, 2021, from 5:00 – 6:40 p.m. Eastern Time. Six experts return for their annual and provocative discussion of some of the most pressing challenges facing … Continue reading NYLS / AAA Program on Cutting Edge Issues in Commercial Arbitration on April 27
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State is excited to have Alex Carter (Columbia) deliver the 4th Annual Bruce E. Meyerson Lecture on Wednesday April 7th at 6pm PT / 9pm ET. As you presumably know, Alex’s book Ask for More is both a bestseller and quite good. I believe that it adds … Continue reading Alex Carter to Deliver the Meyerson Lecture – Wednesday April 7th
As you may have heard, Dwight Golann will receive the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s scholarship award this year. This has prompted a chorus of congratulations, and I join in the accolades for his work. For many reasons. Here are some of them. He continues to practice mediation and his mediations clearly inform his work. … Continue reading Appreciation of Dwight Golann
From AFOI Alyson Carrel: Last month, there were four interviews to celebrate the launch of the new book, Discussions in Dispute Resolution. Here is a link to a website featuring recordings of all four interviews. March 4 – Carrie Menkel-Meadow interviewed by Art Hinshaw about her article, Pursuing Settlement in an Adversary Culture: A Tale … Continue reading Past and Future Events
This whole month, I have been blogging about how different women could and should be used to teach negotiation under the theory that, if we normalized women as negotiation role models, we would all be socialized to expect that this is part of general human behavior rather than something masculine. To end Women’s History Month, … Continue reading Finding Your Own Role Model
Yale law professor Judith Resnik has penned an op-ed calling for passage of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIRA). That shouldn’t be a surprise based on her work on democratic values and arbitration over the years. However, she dug into some data and . . . . well, check out the excerpt below. Advocates … Continue reading Resnik – Unlocking the Courts: Ending Arbitration Mandates and Gag Orders
Despite the new criteria for the USNews law school rankings (story here), there are no reports of anything other than reputational votes being counted for the ADR specialty rankings. And the average score out of 5 is reported below as well. The big news is that we have a new entrant in the top … Continue reading 2022 USNews ADR Rankings
I recently gave a presentation to the ABA SDR’s Early Dispute Resolution Committee and I planned to write a blog post summarizing the presentation. Well, that post grew into this paper, Survey of Early Dispute Resolution Movements and Possible Next Steps. I have been studying EDR for 20 years and this overgrown blog post distills … Continue reading Survey of Early Dispute Resolution Movements and Possible Next Steps
