From BFOI Elayne Greenberg: Please join me in congratulating the 2021 Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Winners Avital Mentovich, Professor at University of Haifa’s School of Criminology, J.J. Prescott, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and Orna Rabinovich-Einy, Associate Professor on the Law Faculty at the University Haifa … Continue reading 2021 Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Winners
From TFOI Brian Jarrett: You are invited to our 11th Annual International Cyber-Conference on Dispute Resolution, Wed. April 7 @ Noon-2:30 pm (US Pacific Coast Time). Please invite your students, colleagues, and community members to participate in this international event. Each year, the Cyber-conference has promoted a global town-hall style dialogue between students, professors, mediators, … Continue reading 11th Annual International Cyber-conference on Dispute Resolution
From TFOI Rachel Viscomi and Lisa Dicker: After the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other Black Americans, protests across the country built what became one of the largest movements in American history. Yet many activists in the U.S. felt that what resulted were only piecemeal reforms and lip service. … Continue reading New Report on “Power, Protest, and Political Change” from the Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic
From GFOI Lela Love The American College of Civil Trial Mediators (ACCTM) is proud to announce the 2021 American Journal of Mediation National Dispute Resolution Writing Competition sponsored by the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. ACCTM is an association of dispute resolution professionals with substantial practice experience as mediators, arbitrators and conflict management neutrals. … Continue reading American Journal Of Mediation National Dispute Resolution Writing Competition
On the occasion of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s birthday (she would be 88 today), it seems only fitting that we use her wonderful example as another one for negotiation. And, while we could focus on her judicial career, I think a particular lesson comes from her very successful litigation strategy as a lawyer … Continue reading Reverse like RBG–and Happy Birthday
Anna Howard‘s new book, EU Cross-Border Commercial Mediation: Listening to Disputants – Changing the Frame; Framing the Changes, provides valuable insights about business disputing. It reports the findings of her study about mediation of EU cross-border commercial disputes, but the dynamics she describes occur in the US and probably many other countries as well. Anna … Continue reading Anna Howard’s New Book Examines Why Businesses Don’t Use Mediation – And Other Issues
Let me start off this post with a caveat–I promise that I had already decided on this as the subject of the post before Sunday’s royal interview expose–really really. But, if the timing works for you in understanding why Oprah gets all these interviews, I’m happy for your attention too! I started this week talking … Continue reading Be Open like Oprah and Candid like Chrissy
My colleague, Amy Schmitz, and mediate.com CEO Colin Rule announced that they have re-built and re-designed the arbitrate.com website from the ground up to offer a powerful set of updated features and capabilities. Take a look. [Click on the title of this post to access the website.]
Last week I had the pleasure of starting off the virtual book launch for Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles (book and book launch details here) by interviewing Carrie Menkel-Meadow. It was super fun, and the link is here if you missed it or would like to watch it again. What interesting things will … Continue reading Discussions in Dispute Resolution Virtual Book Launch – Round 2 with Jean Sternlight
The Program on Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law is pleased to host the second “Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Consortium” event on Friday March 26, 2021, from 3-4:30 p.m. EST. To register, click here. Andrew Mamo, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University will present Against Resolution: Dialogue, Demonstration, and … Continue reading Moritz to Host Second WIP Event – March 26
