Courts

Damages: When More Than What You Lost is Not Enough

Courts

Damages: When More Than What You Lost is Not Enough

The indispensible blog Above the Law has recently posted a depressing bit of news.  Certain ticket holders to the 2011 Super Bowl could not be accomodated because the temporarily-installed seats that they purchased proved to be unsafe for use.  The NFL expressed its regret by offering the disappointed purchasers their...

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Conflict Resolution|Negotiation

Game Theory Redux: Now on YouTube

Conflict Resolution|Negotiation

Game Theory Redux: Now on YouTube

Readers may remember a post concerning game theory and negotiation strategy that appeared in April 2010.  It has proven one of the most frequently visited posts in the past year. A featured speaker on the panel reported in that post has contacted me to advise that many of his ideas have...

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Conflict Resolution|International|Negotiation

Corporate Investment in a Community: CSR That Works

Conflict Resolution|International|Negotiation

Corporate Investment in a Community: CSR That Works

This post comes from the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, where a team from the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has worked on a film documenting the tensions between operators of two hydroelectric dams and the communities that were inundated, destroyed and displaced during the...

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