I am delighted to announce that Susan Yates, the executive director of Resolution Systems Institute, will be receiving the D’Alembert Raven Award from the ABA. Warm congratulations on a well-deserved honor!! The official press release from RSI is below: The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution (ABA DRSection) has announced Susan M. Yates, Executive … Continue reading Susan Yates to Receive the D’Alemberte/Raven Award at the ABA! →

I’m delighted to link to the articles and notes from the first issue of this volume. We have the transcript of the fireside chat with icon Gloria Steinem (filled with inspirational quotes about dispute resolution!) and a wonderful article from Imre Szalai on the future of arbitration plus four great notes from our students. The … Continue reading Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution Volume 25:1 is Published →

Sharing this on behalf of our students–we’d love to see your work! The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution is published three times per year and is dedicated to providing a forum for scholarly research and theoretical writing a wide range of subjects, including arbitration, negotiation, mediation and the latest developments in conflict resolution. We are currently … Continue reading Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution–Call for Papers! →

Janet Martinez, the former Director of Stanford Law School’s Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, will deliver the 2024 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution on March 20, 2024 at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  Titled “System Design for Contemporary Justice”, the lecture will begin at 12:10 ET and conclude at or before 1:20.  … Continue reading Janet Martinez to deliver OSU’s 2024 Schwartz Lecture →

Peter Reilly (Texas A&M) directed the panel to discuss where mediation is going. Erin Archerd (Detroit Mercy) Is restorative justice different than mediation or really mediation itself?  Like mediation, it is a part of “peace making,” and like mediation we need to ask ourselves whether the process has been lessened in the name of results.  … Continue reading Worries and Hopes as We Look to the Future →

Michael Greene (Texas A&M) posed questions to each panelist to get them started, and their remarks are below. Lisa Blomgren Amsler (Indiana) She started with a discussion of the dispute system design process in general, discussing stakeholders, processes and structures, context and culture, resources, as well as all kinds of implicit assumptions with each which … Continue reading Different Frames for Assessing What Mediation Provides →

Cynthia Alkon (Texas A&M) moderated this program and started with this simple question – why are you bullish on mediation? Jim Alfini (South Texas) He is generally positive because mediation has been able to thrive in all kinds of environments, for example the move to Zoom during the pandemic was swift and smooth.  And now … Continue reading Bullish on Mediation →

Here is my summary of Nancy Welsh’s (Texas A&M) opening remarks. After a historical overview of mediation from biblical times to the founding of the modern mediation movement, she offered several questions illustrating the diversity of mediation.  What does mediation look like – how is it structured, who are the mediators, where do they take … Continue reading Setting the Stage →