If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that the 2024 CPR Awards were announced last week. I’ve asked the academic winners to send me an abstract or summary of their award winning works to be posted here, which I will be doing over the next couple of weeks.
As you might expect, Roselle Wissler and I (Arizona State) are still floating on air after our most recent article Comparing Joint Session and Caucus Outcomes: Factoring in Substantive Discussions and Case Characteristics, which appeared in the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, was chosen as the co-winner of the
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Reminder: Please Complete This Short Survey By Friday, February 14
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Job announcement: UC Law San Francisco
I’m happy to announce that the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) is hiring! The Center is a top Law School ADR Center that engages in a vast array of research, teaching, policy, and consulting work, both domestically and internationally. We are looking for an Associate Director to join our dynamic team, either full or part time. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. For more information, click here or contact [email protected]. Please spread the word to your networks and consider applying!
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2024 CPR Award Winners Announced
If you’re on the ADR prof listserv, you’ve seen some congratulatory remarks about the CPR Awards, which were announced yesterday. If you’re not familiar with the awards, the press release announcing them describes the awards as follows:
The CPR Institute’s Annual Awards program honors outstanding scholarship and practical achievement in the field of alternative dispute resolution. Award criteria focuses on scholarship which addresses the resolution, prevention or creative management of major disputes involving public or business institutions between corporations, between government and corporations, or among multiple parties. The review committee comprises judges and lawyers from leading corporations, top law firms, and…
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International Conflict Resolution Processes – Menkel-Meadow and Schneider

The powerhouse team of Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UCIrvine) and Andrea Kupfer Schneider (Cardozo) have just published a new book, International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Press 2025). The book will have a teachers’ manual and was developed based on their learning and experiences teaching in 25 countries. Nice cover and blurb below. Congrats !
The book explores all the modern processes used to handle and resolve international conflicts and disputes, combining analysis of formal public and private international law (e.g. formal adjudicative tribunals and arbitration) with less formal processes (diplomatic negotiations, mediation and newer hybrid fora for dispute resolution and peace…
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Please Complete This Short Survey By Friday, February 14
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I am doing a research study entitled “Conceptions of Facilitative and Evaluative Mediation,” and I would REALLY APPRECIATE it if you would take about five minutes to respond to the short survey below.
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Call for Submissions – Writing Competition – Arbitration +Environmental Law
I am pleased to share this announcement of a new writing competition co-sponsored by the North America Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations (CGA-NA) and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. We are seeking papers from anyone interested in the intersection of arbitration and environmental law, and papers should make a substantial contribution to legal literature and reflect original research and/or major developments in previously reported research. The winning submission will be awarded $5,000. The deadline for submissions is August 30, 2025. Nineteen different arbitral organizations worldwide have signed on as promotional sponsors.
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How You Can Speak Dispute Resolution Well
“The mediation failed.”
This statement implies that reaching agreement is the only measure of success. It also implies that the mediation process failed, not that the parties made a legitimate decision not to settle during a mediation session.
When you hear someone say that, does smoke come out of your ears? Do you get hot under the collar? Get your dander up? Blow your top? Go ballistic? Blow a gasket? Have a conniption fit?
Probably not. But hopefully there’s a voice in your head that says something like, “Uh-oh. That’s a problem because it promotes confusion about the purpose and…
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I don’t know if AI is going to do away with the need for people to teach Negotiation, but…

… I found this image on social media earlier today. And I think it can fairly substitute for pretty much an entire lecture I was going to give in a couple weeks.
I will likely lecture a bit, anyway. But my students, having seen this image, will quite reasonably not listen carefully.
MM
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Latest Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution issues

I was reminded earlier in the week that our email from Hein (SmartCilp) runs significantly behind actual publication when I saw that the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution symposium issue on the Multidoor Criminal Courthouse had just come out on the index. Yet, if you follow us on LinkedIn, you’ll note that the journal is just out this week with the first issue of the next volume!
So…here are blurbs on all!
First, the most recent issue has articles from Ariana Levinson Arbitral Reliance on Precedent and Hal Abramson, Negotiation Map for Teaching and Practice. You can find the whole issue…
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Choosing to Use Good Language in the “ADR” Field
On October 30, 2024, Debra Berman posted a message on the DRLE listserv encouraging colleagues to drop the word “alternative” from “ADR.” Her post quickly prompted 24 responses. As usual, people were respectful, appreciative, collaborative, and funny even as they expressed differing views. This was one of our best discussions, and I wish we had more like it.
My article, Choosing to Use Good Language in the “ADR” Field, summarizes the listserv discussion and demonstrates serious misconceptions embodied in other problematic language including BATNA and facilitative and evaluative mediation. The article shows that some terms no longer fit well,…
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Michael Colatrella Named Dean of McGeorge School of Law
Last week, University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law named Michael T. Colatrella Jr. as its new dean effective July 1.
Many of us know Michael, who hosted the AALS WIP conference last fall.
He is the inaugural Tracy A. Eglet Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution. He joined McGeorge in 2009 as an assistant professor of law and was named associate dean for academic affairs in 2015, serving in the role for four years. In 2019 he was appointed interim dean, shepherding the law school through the first months of the tumultuous COVID-19 pandemic.
He is an expert in…
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What can Los Angeles Learn from Seventeenth Century London?
You all know about the LA fires that have wreaked unprecedented destruction and devastation in the region. Everyone in LA has been affected somehow. Many have lost their homes, schools, and communities. Those of us who don’t fall into this category know and love people who do. Others of us are trapped in a living nightmare, worried that the worsening weather conditions will cause the fires to engulf their neighborhoods as well.
You may also know that London experienced a similar natural disaster. In 1666, the Great Fire of London ravaged the city, leaving it in ruins. Rebuilding seemed impossible…
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Promoting Law Students’ Agency
A recent article in the New York Times described benefits of instructional methods that encourage high school students to take more control over their learning.
Young adults say they feel woefully unprepared for life in the work force, and employers say they’re right.
In a survey by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation of more than 4,000 members of Gen Z, 49 percent of respondents said they did not feel prepared for the future. Employers complain that young hires lack initiative, communication skills, problem-solving abilities and resilience.
There’s a reason the system isn’t serving people well, and it goes beyond…
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Register for Virtual Book Launch: The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform
Please join me (Jill Gross – Haub Law/Pace) and Rick Bales (Ohio Northern) for the online book launch of THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND A ROADMAP FOR REFORM, on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Federal Arbitration Act, this volume brings together a diverse group of leading scholars and practitioners to celebrate its successes and propose specific reforms. Co-edited by Haub Law Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Jill I. Gross and Ohio Northern University Professor of Law Richard A. Bales, the book gives insight into how the…
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ADR Scholarship Projects – January 2025
Happy New Year everyone! Here is the latest installment of scholarship projects by ADR Profs and practitioners all around the country. Thanks again to Peter Reilly (Texas A&M) for compiling and circulating this impressive list.
Hal Abramson (Touro Law)
Time-Pressured Negotiations 30.2 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)
This article considers how to negotiate when you do not have the time to use your best negotiation practices. No other article has considered what to do when in a time-pressured negotiation other than to advise you not to be trapped by a deadline. When you have no choice but to rush, this…
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