Professor Amy J. Schmitz is a full professor at The Ohio State Moritz College of Law and Program on Dispute Resolution as the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Endowed Chair in Law and a Co-Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) CoP for Responsible Data Science at The Ohio State University. She is a prolific author in the fields of dispute resolution, online dispute resolution dispute systems design, arbitration, and consumer protection.
Dr Janet Martinez is Senior Lecturer Emerita and retired from serving as Director of the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School since 2004. Janet taught courses in negotiation, advanced negotiation (public policy, transactions, international), dispute system design, and alternative dispute resolution law and policy. She was Senior Consultant for the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a nonprofit devoted to conflict resolution worldwide, including facilitating a series of policy dialogues in international trade and climate change; she now serves on the board of directors. She, too, is a prolific author in ODR and DSD.
Here’s a link to the book and to more extensive bio information for both authors:
https://aspenpublishing.com/products/schmitz-digitaldisputesystemdesign?srsltid=AfmBOooxJsQfFY7FzJ7s6M7XhxqYmsJiPIpL5CSowQh5j5_m5UF46zJI&variant=47659483070744
Even if you choose to avoid for the right reasons, does it make a difference what you actually say to people just before you withdraw from the situation? One person...
By Ralph KilmannAfter four years of trying to enter the mediation profession, I came to the conclusion that there is no mediation profession. I posted this revelation on Cornell University's DisputeRes Listserve...
By Barry SimonMore than two years since COVID-19 first broke out stateside, the U.S. housing sector remains in a state of flux. Various moratoria and relief funds at the federal, state, and local...
By Eric Slepak