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By Colin Rule on February 25, 2008 at 11:44 am
Jim Melamed on Mediate.com today: "Presidential candidate Barack Obama's main political message represents the absorption of the mediation movement's essential themes at the highest level of national and global politics..."
By Colin Rule on February 13, 2008 at 12:27 pm
There's a new law school ODR competition that's just kicking off -- full details and enrolment are at www.DontSue.net where you can also see screenshots of the platform to be used in the competition.
This competition is serving as the 2008 International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR 2008) -- more than 270 teams from law schools around the world have competed in ICODR since its commencement five years ago.
Key points:
Read more about New International ODR Competition for Law Schools - ICODR 2008
By Colin Rule on February 7, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Now this is my kind of negotiation training. Long live Shpigler! Read more about Negotiation Tips for Yahoo
By Colin Rule on February 6, 2008 at 3:42 pm
In the classic Lessig style. I don't know why he writes like Prince ("What r Obama's supporters 4?") but I found it quite persuasive. Read more about Why Lessig is 4 Obama
By Colin Rule on February 4, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Michael Chabon in today's Washington Post: "There are many reasons not to support Barack Obama's candidacy for president, but every one of them is bad for the same reason...
By Colin Rule on February 3, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Michael Oreskes in the Feb. 3 NYT: "...Call it a split between whether politics should be a pursuit of consensus or an effort to enact a party’s fundamental ideas, its core orthodoxy. Read more about the defining choice: ideology vs. consensus
By Colin Rule on January 18, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Martha Neil yesterday on the ABA Journal blog: "A 32-year-old Boston University law graduate is on a one-woman crusade to save others from making the same mistakes she made...
By Colin Rule on January 18, 2008 at 10:09 am
Brooks in today's Times: "...many of the theories we come up with are bogus. They are based on the assumption that voters make cold, rational decisions about who to vote for and can tell us why they decided as they did. This is false.
Read more about Making voting choices by "unconscious cognition"
By Colin Rule on January 15, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Peter Byrne in Silicon Valley Metro (from 2006): "During the Cold War, {Daniel} Ellsberg worked as a "game theorist" for the Rand Corporation and, then, at the Department of Defense as a high-ranking official developing nuclear attack options. At Rand, he used the statistical methods of game theory—which purports to describe how "rational" people act when confronted with rational choices—to show that it was irrational to develop nuclear first strike capabilities against the Soviet Union. Read more about Game theory and pre-emptive warfare
By Colin Rule on January 4, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I'm reading a fantastic book by Robert Wright called NonZero. As the website for the book describes it:
By Colin Rule on January 4, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Reason’s Jesse Walker on the fall of Mitt Romney: “I have to confess I’m enjoying Mike Huckabee’s victory, even though I disagree with virtually all of his platform. Mitt Romney represents everything Americans hate about politicians: the empty man hungry for power and willing to say anything to get it, the privileged man who thinks he can buy an election without actually standing for anything. Intellectually I know I should prefer him to Huckabee. Read more about I love it
By Colin Rule on January 4, 2008 at 10:23 am
Gary Hart on the Huffington Post this morning: "A year or so ago I wrote a book entitled The Courage of Our Convictions. It urged Democratic leaders to restate the principles that guided the party successfully through the age of Roosevelt (1932-1968): commitment to national community, security alliances, citizen obligation, and equality and justice..."
By Colin Rule on January 3, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Stephanie Rosenbloom in today's Times : "Now that first impressions are often made in cyberspace, not face-to-face, people are not only strategizing about how to virtually convey who they are, but also grappling with how to craft an e-version of themselves that appeals to multiple audiences..."
Read more about Online you can be wild, tame, or both -- you decide
By Colin Rule on December 21, 2007 at 6:12 pm
"Generosity May Be Genetically Programmed, Israeli Study Says" by Alisa Odenheimer: "Philanthropists may be genetically programmed to donate to charities, while misers may be wired to hold on to their wealth, Israeli researchers say..."
By Colin Rule on November 19, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Great new article from ADR pioneer David Hoffman on Mediate.com today. From the conclusion: "Because email is such a new medium {...}the techniques for successful communication via computer may be less intuitive and require more conscious attention...
