From FOI Lydia Nussbaum (UNLV): Join us for the 13th Annual AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference in Las Vegas, NV! The conference takes place from October 3-5, 2019, at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law & the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. Click here for the conference website and registration information. Important Dates … Continue reading Register Now for the WIP
At the upcoming Past-and-Future Conference at Pepperdine, much of the discussion will be about engaging the real world of dispute resolution. This post recommends that to help do this, we develop a common language of dispute resolution and increasingly use qualitative research methods. We Should Set a Top Priority to Develop Clearer Common Language of … Continue reading Understanding Actual DR Practice and Communicating Clearly About It
Do you suffer from the imposter syndrome too? I have been in our field for decades and I know only a teeny tiny fraction of our body of knowledge. I feel like Lucille Ball in the chocolate factory as we constantly churn out ever more stuff and I can’t keep up. I generally try to … Continue reading Recent Dispute Resolution Scholarship
At the Past-and-Future Conference, I will be on a panel with Doug Frenkel, Michaela Keet, and Donna Stienstra entitled, “Research and Scholarship with a Real-World Focus Studying What Practitioners Actually Do.” We will not only discuss research about private neutrals, but also lawyers, judges, and disputants. Most of the session will be a conversation in … Continue reading Pepperdine Program Discussing Scholarship About Actual Practice
I’ve been meaning for some time to highlight ADR articles that are published in mainline law reviews where blog readers might not see them as easily as they otherwise might. So here’s the first go around, and this will probably be more monthly than article by article. Bradford, C. Steven. Online arbitration as a remedy … Continue reading Recent ADR Scholarship in non-ADR Law Reviews
Delighted to be interviewed yesterday by the Washington Post and quoted today (at the end of the story) about his foreign policy. As I note, Trump only appears to have a hammer and assumes that even with repeat players, he will be able to bully his way through foreign policy. I (and many others) opine … Continue reading Trump’s Only Negotiation Tool
What was the best moment of your life, when it comes to ADR? I just read this collection in the Guardian of the best moment of people’s lives and felt inspired to think about happy times. For me, one of the best ADR moments of my life happened when I was mediating a business dispute. … Continue reading The Best Moment of Your (ADR) Life
You are going to die. Before then, you may endure extended periods of suffering from illnesses and injuries (especially from falling down), grisly side effects from medical treatments, chronic physical and mental deterioration, disconnection from your earlier life, loss of control, family conflict, and entanglement with the medical and insurance industries. Some of that misery … Continue reading Helping People Make Hard Decisions – And Making Them Ourselves
Recently, Rishi Batra, Heather Heavin, Michaela Keet, and I presented a program on negotiation theory at the Southeast Conference on Conflict Management at Lipscomb University. We focused primarily on litigation interest and risk assessment (LIRA). This is the subject of a forthcoming ABA book, Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment: Help Your Clients Make Good Litigation … Continue reading Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment
From FOI Tracy Blanchard: The Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program recently launched Thanks for Listening, a podcast that strives to bridge the political divide through dialogue. You can listen to the episode here. From the description: What would happen if people learned to flex their “dialogue muscles” at a very young age? What if, … Continue reading Thanks for Listening, episode 2
