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
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
There’s too darn much ADR research. Too darn much if you have any hope of keeping up with it. We are blessed and cursed with an interest in a subject that deals with virtually every aspect of life and is studied in many different disciplines. So we are fortunate that Jim Coben and Donna Stienstra … Continue reading Coben & Stienstra’s Fabulous Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Research
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
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
From EFOI Noam Ebner: I wanted to let you know of a new update to the Online Dispute Resolution Bibliography, adding over a hundred new items to the list. The updated to-the-moment version of the ODR Bibliography awaits you at the website of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution. The list is a … Continue reading Updated ODR Bibliography
In the middle of the impeachment trial last week, I received a Westlaw email with links to the symposium on ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era, organized by Texas A&M and published in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution. The symposium could not be more timely and is well worth reading (though the … Continue reading ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era
ODR and Mediation Chapter Noam Ebner and Daniel Rainey published a chapter entitled ODR and Mediation in the second edition of Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice. Here’s the abstract: Online mediation had been spreading rapidly as a mode of practice, even before the entire profession shifted online during the COVID-19 era. In this chapter, … Continue reading Get Yer ODR News Here
Jim Stark and Doug Frenkel just became scholars-in-residence with the International Academy of Mediators, following in the footsteps of Hal Abramson, Lela Love, and Dwight Golann. I have appreciated Doug and Jim’s work – actually of all the SiRs – and this post describes some of the things I appreciate about it. It also includes … Continue reading Appreciation of Doug Frenkel and Jim Stark
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) announced the following recipients of its 2021 Awards for contributions to ADR at a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, as part of CPR’s Annual Meeting. Outstanding Contribution to Diversity in ADR: Gail Wright, Esq. Outstanding Book in the Field of ADR: America’s Peacemakers: The … Continue reading CPR Awards
