In response to my question, “Do you use “BATNA” wrong?,” I plead guilty, with an explanation. With the patient tutelage of my friends, Hiro Aragaki and Sanda Kaufman, I have come to see the error of my ways. I was concerned because BATNA – the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement – has become part of … Continue reading Confusing Dispute Resolution Jargon
From Hiro Aragaki: First off, thanks to John Lande for pursuing this issue and calling attention to the real imprecision that sometimes attends our use of the term “BATNA.” If anything, I have learned through my off-line exchange with him and Sanda Kaufman that there is more confusion out there among scholars and practitioners than … Continue reading Hiro Aragaki: Things We Know and Think We Know About BATNA and WATNA
Here’s Sanda Kaufman’s response to my conversation with her and Hiro Aragaki. (Click the title of this post to see her piece.)
Some questions for law professors: Why did you go to law school? Why did you decide to go into academia? What do you want to accomplish in your work? What do you hope for your students? In this post, I give my answers to these questions, which I think will resonate for many readers of … Continue reading Stone Soup, Reflective Practice, Action Research, and Social Justice
This post is for colleagues who will use a Stone Soup assignment this coming semester or are considering doing so. We now have posts with assessments of 25 course offerings, which include the Stone Soup assignments that faculty used. Some posts include additional documents. Faculty and students using Stone Soup have exceeded our expectations. Faculty … Continue reading Suggestions for Using Stone Soup in Your Courses
Gemma Smyth is the Externship Program Director for the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, in Canada, which has a long tradition of focusing on access to justice. Windsor is so committed to this mission that it requires all students to take an Access to Justice course in their first semester. Gemma is one … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Gemma Smyth’s Access to Justice Course
Here’s an exercise that TFOI Ben Davis uses and wants to share. I just came across a tool that might be of interest on building arbitration clauses. The only thing that I would add would be a reminder about Frederic Eisemann’s article on Pathological Arbitration Clauses (La Clause d’arbitrage pathologique, Commercial Arbitration Essays in Memoriam … Continue reading Ben Davis: Fun with Technology, Arbitration Clauses and a Mock International Commercial Arbitration
It would be hard to be more enthusiastic about Stone Soup than Carolyn Wilkes (Carrie) Kaas, the Co-Director of Quinnipiac’s Center on Dispute Resolution, Director of Experiential Education, as well as Director of Concentration Programs in Family Law and Civil Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. These days, she also teaches Quinnipiac’s Externship Program. Like a … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Carrie Kaas’s Externship Course
This post describes how Stone Soup pioneers used four different approaches in their mediation courses. Once again, it demonstrates colleagues’ creativity and the great potential for Stone Soup. Charlie Irvine had 20 LLM / MSc students and he assigned them to interview a mediator about a recent case. Students were required to write papers … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Four Mediation Courses, by Charlie Irvine, Jim Levin, Martha Simmons, and Doug Yarn
This post describes five different approaches to using Stone Soup in ADR courses. It reflects the incredible flexibility of this project and the creativity of faculty in tailoring Stone Soup assignments to fit their goals and circumstances. Even when the assignments don’t work as planned, we can learn valuable lessons from these experiences. Andrea … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Five ADR Courses, by Andrea Schneider, Bob Ackerman, Becky Jacobs, Doug Yarn, and Derrick Howard
