Every year the USNews rankings come out and we love them or hate them depending on whether they favor us or not. And at least with the USNews specialty rankings, we know they are peer reviewed, so they are more telling than the overall law school rankings. So – without any further ado, here are … Continue reading USNews Dispute Resolution Rankings
John Lande (Missouri) has posted “A Framework for Advancing Negotiation Theory: Implications from a Study of How Lawyers Reach Agreement in Pretrial Litigation” on SSRN. The abstract: The prevailing negotiation theory tries to fit lots of square pegs into just two round holes – adversarial or cooperative bargaining. In the real world, negotiation comes in … Continue reading Lande on Advancing Negotiation Theory
The NYT reports today on “the Matthew process,” a form of Biblical dispute resolution based on a passage from the Gospel of Matthew in which Jesus says that disputants should attempt to resolve their dispute privately, and if that doesn’t work to bring “one or two others” into the process. The particular dispute covered in … Continue reading Non-binding Christian mediation
FOI Alyson Carrel (Northwestern) sends this reflection on the recent events in the case of Jewlyes Gutierrez. —————————- This past week, Jewlyes Gutierrez, a transgender teen who was charged with misdemeanor battery after getting into a fight with three other girls who had allegedly been bullying her for weeks, was offered the chance to use … Continue reading Carrel: Reflections on Restorative Justice in the Gutierrez case
There’s recently been a lot of discussion of who should be on the “Mount Rushmore” of sports which has resulted in lots of interesting discussion. And recently Paul Caron did something similar for tax professors over on the TaxProf blog. In that vein, I thought it would be fun to come up with a Mount … Continue reading ADR Prof Mount Rushmore
Appeared on 250words.com last week. Available here. Mostly familiar names. Some less so. Wouldn’t be my list, but then, that’s what makes it interesting… MM
I’ll be presenting my article Bargaining with Consequences: Leverage and Coercion in Negotiation tomorrow (Friday, February 27, 2014) at the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Here’s the abstract to the article, which will be published later this spring in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review: Leverage has been called “negotiation’s prime mover,” … Continue reading Bargaining with Consequences
Profs. Doug Frenkel’s (UPenn) and Jim Stark’s (UConn) recent article Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion, 28 Ohio State J. Dispute Resol. 263-352 (2013), has been selected as the outstanding scholarly article of 2013 by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR). CPR, an organization of executives and counsel from the … Continue reading Profs. Frenkel and Stark Win CPR Outstanding Scholarly Article Award
I am very pleased to share that my colleague and co-author Nancy Hardin Rogers was honored with the prestigious James F. Henry Award from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). As many of you know, the institute is an independent nonprofit organization comprised of global corporations, law firms, scholars, and public institutions … Continue reading Moritz College of Law Professor Nancy H. Rogers wins CPR’s James F. Henry Award for Distinguished Contribution to Dispute Resolution
I spent two days at the end of last week attending a conference at the Regent University School of Law on Promoting the Rule of Law in East Africa. The conference was well organized and included an impressive list of thoughtful and thought provoking speakers (see here ). The conference included a number of … Continue reading When children are being sacrificed, why is love a crime?
