A recent article has been making the rounds of ADR professionals. The current issue of the American Psychological Association’s publication Psychology, Public Policy and Law (Vol. 16, No. 2, at 133-57) features a report of a study conducted by a group of scholars from Australia, Sweden and the United States....
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In 1999, CPR Institute published Kathleen Scanlon's volume Mediator's Deskbook. It was (and still is) a terrific book, subsequently translated into Japanese and Chinese, but alas out of print after 11 years. James Henry, CPR's founder and president, thought of it as "the well-thumbed paperback that every mediator leafs through...
I told my wife that I wanted to do the following exercise with my 50-person ADR survey class at New York Law School: "Find a partner and face each other. Touch your palms together about face-level and then grasp each other's hand. The person who can get the other person's hand past their...
My class in International Commercial Dispute Resolution at New York Law School is now finished, and each student was required to prepare a paper on a related topic of their choice. All were good, happily, and some students wrote on topics that readers of this blog may find useful. With their...
Over the past 18 months I have been getting more and more involved with the "Conflict Transformation Committee" of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. That's like Quakers. Like the oatmeal. And it's going to get worse before it gets better....