Publications

The Real Practice Systems Project, Indisputably blog (2022).

Real Mediation Systems to Help Parties and Mediators Achieve Their Goals, 24 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 347 (2023).

Real Practice Systems Project Menu of Mediation Checklists, 42 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 53 (2024).

Real Practice Systems Project Menu of Checklists for Attorneys in Mediation, SSRN (2024).

Practitioners Tell Why Real Practice System Checklists Are So Useful, 42 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 80 (2024).  

Real Practice Systems Project Annotated Bibliography, SSRN (2024).  

Using Dispute System Design Methods to Promote Good-Faith Participation in Court-Connected Mediation Programs, 50 UCLA Law Review 69 (2002).

Think DSD, Not ADR, 16 New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer 14 (Spring 2023).

Principles for Policymaking about Collaborative Law and Other ADR Processes, 22 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 619 (2007).

Possibilities for Early Dispute Resolution, in Discussions in Dispute Resolution, Volume II:  The Coming of Age (2000-2009) (Art Hinshaw, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, and Sarah Rudolph Cole eds., 2025).

Early Negotiation Processes, in Family Dispute Resolution:  Process and Practice (Peter Salem and Kelly Browe Olson, eds., 2024).

Survey of Early Dispute Resolution Movements and Possible Next Steps, SSRN (2021).

Why and How Businesses Use Planned Early Negotiation, 13 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 248 (2017) (with Peter W. Benner).

Family Lawyering with Planned Early Negotiation:  How to Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money, 37 Family Advocate 12 (Winter 2015).

Planned Early Dispute Resolution User Guide, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution (2013) (with Kurt L. Dettman and Catherine E. Shanks).

The Movement Toward Early Case Handling in Courts and Private Dispute Resolution, 24 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 83 (2008).

A Framework for Advancing Negotiation Theory:  Implications from a Study of How Lawyers Reach Agreement in Pretrial Litigation, 16 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 1 (2014).

What’s the Matter with BATNA?  It’s Misleading and Doesn’t Help Advance Parties’ Important Interests, 43 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 39 (2025).

Moving Negotiation Theory from the Tower of Babel Toward a World of Mutual Understanding, 2017 Journal of Dispute Resolution 1.

The Definition of Negotiation:  A Play in Three Acts, 2017 Journal of Dispute Resolution 15 (with Andrea Schneider, Noam Ebner, and David Matz).

Taming the Jungle of Negotiation Theories, in Negotiation Desk Reference (Christopher Honeyman & Andrea Schneider eds., 2017).

Why Do Mediators Mediate the Way They Do?, 42 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 91 (2024).

Helping You Do the Best Mediation You Can, 42 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 112 (2024).

A Snapshot of How Mediators Use Technology These Days, 42 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 159 (2024).

The Critical Importance of Pre-Session Preparation in Mediation, SSRN (2022).

How You Can Solve Tough Problems in Mediation, 29 Michigan Dispute Resolution Journal 11 (Fall 2021).

Doing The Best Mediation You Can, 14 Dispute Resolution Magazine 43 (Spring/Summer 2008).

Getting the Faith:  Why Business Lawyers and Executives Believe in Mediation, 5 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 137 (2000).

Toward More Sophisticated Mediation Theory, 2000 Journal of Dispute Resolution 321.

How Will Lawyering and Mediation Practices Transform Each Other?, 24 Florida State University Law Review 839 (1997).

Mediation Paradigms and Professional Identities:  Can Mediators Activate a New Movement for Justice?  4 Mediation Quarterly 19 (1984).

My Last Lecture:  More Unsolicited Advice for Future and Current Lawyers, 2015 Journal of Dispute Resolution 317.

The Potential Contribution of ADR to an Integrated Curriculum:  Preparing Law Students for Real World Lawyering, 25 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 247 (2010)(with Jean Sternlight).

Solving Professors’ Dilemmas about Prohibiting or Promoting Student AI Use, SSRN (2025).

Faculty Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching, SSRN (2025).

Teaching with AI:  Insights from a Faculty Focus Group, SSRN (2025).

De-Skilling or Re-Skilling?  The Case for Smarter Assignments, SSRN (2025).

Getting Help from AI to Update Your Syllabus (Even If You Think It’s Just Fine), SSRN (2025).

Teaching with AI – and Teaching Students to Use It Well, SSRN (2025).

Using AI to Promote Student Learning Through Preparation for and Reflection about Simulations,  SSRN (2025).

Preparing Law Students for Real-World Practice, SSRN (2024).

Incorporating Real-World Legal Practice Into Law School Curricula, SSRN (2024).

The Case for Strategic Case Evaluation and Management Courses, SSRN (2024).  

Taking Advantage of the NextGen Bar to Stimulate Changes in Legal Education, SSRN (2024).

It’s Time to Make Important Upgrades to Our Mediation Curriculum, SSRN (2024).

Law Schools Should Substantially Increase Instruction in Mediation Representation, SSRN (2024).

Creating Educational Value by Teaching Law Students to be Quasi-Mediators, SSRN (2024).

Model Mediation Course Syllabus With Teaching Notes, SSRN (2024).

The Case for Mediation Counseling and Advocacy Clinics and Externships, SSRN (2024).

The Legal Education, ADR, and Practical Problem-Solving (LEAPS) Project:  History and Content, SSRN (2024).

Reforming Legal Education to Prepare Law Students Optimally for Real-World Practice, 2013 Journal of Dispute Resolution 1.

Lessons from Teaching Students to Negotiate Like a Lawyer, 15 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 1 (2013).

Principles for Designing Negotiation Instruction, 33 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 299 (2012) (with Ximena Bustamante, Jay Folberg, and Joel Lee) (adapted from a chapter in Educating Negotiators in a Connected World (Christopher Honeyman, James R. Coben & Andrew Wei-Min Lee, eds., 2013)).

Suggestions for Using Multi-Stage Simulations in Law School Courses, SSRN (2013).

Teaching Students to Negotiate Like a Lawyer, 39 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 109 (2012).

Choosing to Use Good Language in the “ADR” Field, SSRN (2025).

The Importance of Really Listening – For Ourselves, Others, and Democracy, SSRN (2023).

For Pragmatic Romanticism in Law and Dispute Resolution:  Reflections on Galanter’s Remarkably Realistic Analysis of Why the Have-Nots Come Out Behind, in Discussions in Dispute Resolution (Art Hinshaw, Andrea Kupfer Schneider & Sarah Rudolph Cole, eds., 2021).

The Role of Law in Legal Disputes, SSRN (2021).

Introversion, the Legal Profession, and Dispute Resolution, SSRN (2021).

The Dispute Resolution Movement Needs Good Theories of Change, 2020 Journal of Dispute Resolution 121.

The Revolution in Family Law Dispute Resolution, 24 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 411 (2012).

An Appreciation of Marc Galanter’s Scholarship, 71 Law and Contemporary Problems 147 (Spring 2008).

Private Courts and Public Authority, 12 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 393 (1992) (with Marc Galanter).

For additional publications, see my SSRN page and Indisputably blog posts.