I'm reading Leonard Riskin's new book Managing Conflict Mindfully. If you work in conflict, so should you.

https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Conflict-Mindfully-Everything-Paperback/dp/1636591426

At some point, I'll write more about why that's so. For now, even better: let Prof. Riskin, together…

Negotiate for a living? Resolve conflict? Manage teams? Responsible for relationships within and outside of your company? Work with people? Fight sometimes?

I've got the book for you.…

Here is the compilation of resources harvested at the 2022 Legal Educators’ Resource Share which this year was held during the virtual ABA DR Section Conference.

Sharon Press and I appreciated seeing so many colleagues attend the session, and their continued generosity in sharing their experience.

The …

Webinar: ODR Ethics and Standards: What Do They Mean to Our Practices?

Thursday, June 9, 2022 @ 11am-12:30pm EST

An international panel moderated by …

Here is the compilation of resources harvested at the 2021 Legal Educators’ Resource Share which this year was held during the virtual ABA DR Section Conference.

Sharon Press and I appreciated seeing so many colleagues attend the session, and their continued generosity in sharing their experience.

This is the…

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (NCMR)

Special Issue Call for Papers

Lessons from Practice: Extensions of Current Negotiation Theory and Research

Submission Deadline: January 15,…

Tuesday, September 1st, 12 noon US Central Time

Experiencing systemic injustice such as racism, misogyny, and colonialism can be hard to name. And even after seeing and naming this kind of injustice, people struggle with how it is normalized and hidden. Why and how is systemic injustice normalized? How can we stop the perpetuation of injustice within our…

Here is the compilation of resources harvested at the 2020 Legal Educators’ Resource Share which this year was held during the virtual ABA DR Section Conference.

Sharon and I appreciated seeing so many colleagues attend the session, and their continued generosity in sharing their experience.

This is the…

Sharon Press and I gave a webinar last week on conducting simulations in courses transitioning to Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms. The video is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hdz-NI6Xr4&

Feel very welcome to view and to share. Our…

It is one of the oldest lawyer jokes in the book, and its punchline is about to change.

Remember the New Yorker cartoon, in which a lawyer and their client sit at a table, and the lawyer assesses the client’s legal problem? “You have a pretty good case,” the lawyer informs him, “How much justice can you afford?”

The client’s response is unvoiced in the cartoon, but moving beyond the punchline, one can imagine the client’s heart sinking,…

When John Lande gave me a preview of his new book (written with Michaela Keet and Heather Heavin)  Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment, I read it in one gulp. It was everything they never taught me in law school, and many of the mistakes I’ve seen lawyers make while counseling their clients in mediation, all rolled into one.

The book explains how lawyers, mediators, and settlement…

Only four years ago, John Zeleznikow and I wrote an article on field-wide governance for the field of Online Dispute Resolution. Published in Negotiation Journal, it was called  …

Read our Annual Impact Report, detailing the work, activities, and achievements of Creighton University's NCR Program and 2040 Initiative for 2019-2020.

I'm so thrilled to announce that Palgrave has a special holidays sale going on now… and the e-Book of The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation is available for 9.99! (in dollars, Euro or whatever).

Take advantage of this sale to benefit from the work of the outstanding negotiation experts from around the world who contributed to this book. The e-book is the perfect form for this book’s purpose: download it to your phone, table or laptop, and take it with you next…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS:

Star Wars and Conflict Resolution

Editors: Noam Ebner (Creighton University) and Jen Reynolds (University of Oregon)

We seek proposals for chapters in a book combining the knowledge and science of the conflict resolution field with the rich narrative universe of…

Are you curious about the link between conflict resolution education and, job satisfaction of healthcare professionals and outcomes for patients? The Creighton University Negotiation & Conflict Resolution - NCR​ Program has the workshop for you!

For those who cannot join us in person but would like to tune in online, you may join on Zoom. Instructions in the event invitation below.

The Impact and Effectiveness of Conflict…

2019 Resource Share!

Sharon Press and Bobbi McAdoo of Mitchell-Hamline School of Law have once again shared the harvest of the annual Resource Share session they conduct at the ABA's Section of Dispute Resolution annual conference. This year, the compilation has grown so large, that it is broken down into two documents, one containing teaching ideas and…

65 authors, herded by editors Andrea Schneider and Chris Honeyman, have contributed to this practical, easy to read, and helpful book on negotiation. It is ostensibly directed at lawyers, but I think that readers from all professions would benefit from reading it.

Take a look through the Table of…