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Symposium

DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND CAPITULATION TO THE ROUTINE: IS THERE A WAY OUT?


 Penn State Dickinson School of Law, the Broad Field Project, and the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Research Section, sponsors

 April 10-12, 2003

This symposium was designed to examine how a profession or field that starts out with high aspirations may gradually slip into "routinization" and drift away from practices embodying those aspirations; whether there are telling examples of fields that have resisted these pressures over a long period, so that we might learn from their experience; and what strategies might be devised.

A number of articles resulting from this meeting have since been published, as a special issue of the Penn State Law Review (Vol. 108, No. 1.) They are listed on the Broad Field Project's Articles page, and all of the Penn State Law Review articles are available on Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw.

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Penn State law professor
Bob Ackerman, introducing Vinton Cerf, Chairman,  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)


Authors of the resulting articles (among others):

Melvin Blumberg is Professor of Management and former director of the School of Business Administration at Penn State University, Harrisburg. He has written and lectured extensively on organizational behavior.

Vinton Cerf is Senior Vice-President for Internet Architecture and Technology, WorldCom, Inc. Widely regarded as one of the founders of the Internet, Dr. Cerf was (for example) one of the two authors of TCP/IP, the pair of protocols that defined the transition from the military-only Arpanet to the Internet.

Jonathan Cohen is Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law. Among his recent writings is “When People are the Means: Negotiating with Respect” (14 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 739-802, 2001.)

Robert Dingwall is Director of the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society, and Professor of Sociology, at the University of Nottingham, UK. Among his 18 books is The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others (Macmillan, London and St Martin's Press, New York, 1983; paperback edition, 1984.)

Dorothy Evensen is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Education, Penn State University, and currently Professor-in-Charge of its Higher Education Program.

Tim Hedeen is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University, and is a former Board Co-Chair of the National Association for Community Mediation.

Deborah Hensler is Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation, and is Professor of Dispute Resolution at Stanford Law School. Previously she was director of the Institute for Civil Justice, RAND.

Joseph Herkert is Associate Professor of Multidisciplinary Studies and Director of the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program, North Carolina State University. Among his recent writings is Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings. (2000, IEEE Press, New York.)

Christopher Honeyman is Managing Partner of Convenor Conflict Management.

Tom Metzloff is Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Among his recent writings is “Empirical Perspectives on Mediation and Malpractice” (61 Law & Contemporary Problems, 1997.)

Charles Pou, Jr., is a dispute resolution consultant based in Washington, DC. He was previously senior attorney at the Administrative Conference of the U.S., where he was, among other things, instrumental in the design of the U.S. Alternative Dispute Resolution Act and the U.S. Negotiated Rulemaking Act.

Sharon Press is Director of the Florida Dispute Resolution Center, a joint program of the Florida Supreme Court and Florida State University College of Law. The FDRC supervises the largest mediation caseload of any jurisdiction in the world (over 120,000 cases per year.)

David Sally is Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. He is a behavioral economist with interests in social interaction, cooperation, sympathy, self-control, and language.

Leo Smyth lectures on management and negotiation in the Department of Management, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, and is former Dean of the School of Business and Economics, University College, Galway. 

 

      




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