I’m an Associate Dean. My life during this season is dominated by creating, defending, adjusting, and then defending again a complex academic calendar. The unworkable puzzle created by several dozen faculty members’ teaching preferences (not all of which are articulated until after they see something that fails to satisfy one or more of their interests) … Continue reading Course Scheduling as a Multi-Party Negotiation
Today started on a sad note when I woke up to NPR to hear that Alex Chilton, a music icon in my eyes, passed away. If my life were a movie, surely a couple of his songs would be on the soundtrack. Alex Chilton was a singer-songwriter who is most well known for the huge mid-1960s hit … Continue reading Alex Chilton, R.I.P.
From Ran Kuttner at Creighton: The Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University School of Law welcomes applications for a full-time faculty position in Conflict Resolution to begin August 2010. As Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution, the successful candidate will teach graduate courses in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution. The position will … Continue reading ADR Academic Job: Werner Institute
From Jean Sternlight: On March 12-13 of this year the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution offered a conference entitled Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis. Including approximately 30 speakers from around the country the conference focused on a variety of ways in which conflict resolution tools can be used effectively to deal with consequences of … Continue reading UNLV Conference on Conflict Resolution & the Economic Crisis
It’s hard to believe that it’s been two months since the AALS Annual Meetings in New Orleans (was it cold there or what?). I had promised to give a report about the ADR Section’s program, and it’s taken me longer to get to this than anticipated to to it. Nevertheless, the program was first-rate and … Continue reading Overcoming the Difficulties of Teaching Negotiation Ethics – AALS ADR Section Program, Part 1
One of today’s headings on the front page of the Columbus Dispatch stated that a mediator reinstated an officer who had been caught driving 149 mph on his motorcycle (off duty). Here is the online story (slightly different headline): 149-mph officer wins his job back Mediator: It wasn’t proved that he abused his position Wednesday, … Continue reading Mediation and Arbitration are Not the Same Thing
I am linking here to a blog post from a practitioner fed up with standard clauses and standard problems. As he writes: Today’s issue of the New York Law Journal contains my article “The AAA Standard Arbitration Clause: Room for Improvement.” Click here to go to a pdf copy. (It’s also available here if you … Continue reading AAA Standard Arbitration Clause redraft
Last week, I saw a great piece in a newsletter from business coach Deborah Grayson Riegel about how focusing closely can really help you make progress. U.S. Olympic bobsled pilot Steven Holcomb had been piloting his four-man sled virtually blind due to an eye disease when he decided to have surgery to restore his vision. … Continue reading Gold Medal Lawyering–Mindfulness at Work
Sean Nolon from Vermont Law School would like to hear how your law school teaches dispute resolution. Several of you have received this, but we want to make sure we catch as many people as possible. This data collection project is a component of what Sean presented at this fall’s Works-in-Progress Conference. Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-postings), … Continue reading Dispute Resolution in the Law School Curriculum – Your Help Requested
On April 20, 2010, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York County Lawyers Association are co-sponsoring a symposium in New York entitled: Problem Solving Courts Symposium: The Pros and Cons of Treatment in the Criminal Justice System. In the symposium “interested groups will debate the various functions of problem-solving courts, including … Continue reading Problem Solving Courts Symposium in NY