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...
From the invaluable BASESwiki comes news of just the development I and others have pounded the table about: A long-term project that features a formal and permanent "canary-in-the-mine" that identifies and addresses problems early on, and successfully prevents conflicts....
Victoria Pynchon's Settle It Now blog is on my daily list, and a recent post brought to our attention an interesting study on whether, by certain objective standards, attorneys get in the way of mediators' work. ...
Christian Duve is a handsome, very bright, very perceptive attorney mediator practicing with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Frankfurt, Germany. I have known and admired him for many years and recently learned a lot (once again) listening to a conversation he held with GE's Michael McIlwrath on negotiation techniques....
The third and final student paper I intend to share addresses the emergence of Islamic law in countries that are, or promise to be, important trade partners with western businesses. ...
In January 2001, I attended a CPR Annual Meeting in which Carrie Menkel-Meadow moderated a fascinating panel discussion on "Gender and Negotiation/Mediation." The question presented was: "Does the gender of participants influence expectations, behaviors, performance or outcomes in negotiation and mediation settings?" The panelists included Charles Craver of George Washington...
Wilbur Hicks, Ombuds of the International Monetary Fund (and before that for Shell and Princeton) has directed our attention to the Ombuds Blog. Even a cursory review shows that this is a robust and (for me at least) hitherto overlooked resource for commercial conflict managers....