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How To Be A Better Plea Bargainer, Cynthia Alkon, Andrea Kupfer Schneider
How To Be A Better Plea Bargainer, Cynthia Alkon, Andrea Kupfer Schneider
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Preparation matters in negotiation. While plea bargaining is a criminal lawyer’s primary activity, the value of this skill is discounted by law schools and training programs. A systemic model can be used to improve plea bargaining skills. This Article offers a prep sheet for both prosecutors and defense attorneys and explains how each element of the sheet specifically applies to the plea bargaining context. The prep sheet is designed as a learning tool so that the negotiator can learn from the sheet and then make their own. The sheet highlights important considerations such as understanding the interests and goals of …
Switching Hats In Med-Arb: The Ethical Choices Required To Protect Process Integrity, Nancy A. Welsh
Switching Hats In Med-Arb: The Ethical Choices Required To Protect Process Integrity, Nancy A. Welsh
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Increasingly, there is interest in the use of mixed-mode dispute resolution, including med-arb. Med-arb provides the opportunity for parties to reach their own agreements, while also guaranteeing a binding decision. However, because med-arb combines mediation and arbitration, it presents a variety of ethical challenges – to party self-determination, impartiality, confidentiality, and even fairness and process integrity. Relying primarily on the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators and the Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes, it becomes clear that some of these ethical challenges can be met through process choices – e.g., the use of two neutrals rather than …
Bargaining Without Bias, Cynthia Alkon
Bargaining Without Bias, Cynthia Alkon
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In this article, to work towards decreasing bias in plea bargaining, I propose a structural fix and an individual fix to these core problems. The structural fix is that prosecutors' offices should adopt policies for blind assessment of cases when the first plea offer is made. All indicia of race or ethnicity (including names and neighborhoods) should be removed when prosecutors review a case and make the initial plea offer. This would help prosecutors focus on the facts and their evidence when making a plea offer and prevent bias in decision making. However, it is not realistic to expect that …
But Is It Good: The Need To Measure, Assess, And Report On Court-Connected Adr, Nancy A. Welsh
But Is It Good: The Need To Measure, Assess, And Report On Court-Connected Adr, Nancy A. Welsh
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We know that very few civil matters reach disposition through trial—but what do we really know about how civil cases do reach disposition? What number of civil cases reach disposition through settlement? What number of civil cases reach settlement through court-connected “alternative” dispute resolution (ADR)? Do we know enough about the results of courtconnected ADR to be able to detect potential patterns of systemic discrimination? This Article examines what we know from federal and state court systems’ public reporting and finds: 1) only a minority of federal district courts and state court systems report regarding dispositions through settlement; 2) there …
Bargaining In The Shadow Of Investor-State Mediation: How The Threat Of Mediation Will Improve Parties' Conflict Management, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Nancy A. Welsh
Bargaining In The Shadow Of Investor-State Mediation: How The Threat Of Mediation Will Improve Parties' Conflict Management, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Nancy A. Welsh
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Issues of access to justice, threats to national sovereignty, and perceptions of inconsistency and arbitrariness have led to a crisis of confidence in the investor-state arbitration system. In response, there has been a successful push for the inclusion of mediation in treaty provisions and arbitration rules, as well as ratification of the Singapore Convention for the expedited enforcement of mediated agreements. Nonetheless, very little mediation is actually occurring on the ground. Efforts to increase the use of mediation have failed to address concerns such as the political costs of settling cases, the lack of coordination between state agencies with different …
Introduction To Symposium On "Adr's Place In Navigating A Polarized Era", Nancy A. Welsh
Introduction To Symposium On "Adr's Place In Navigating A Polarized Era", Nancy A. Welsh
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Ours is a nation built for conflict, for friction. Such conflict, while painful, can be good. It can signal newfound agency, and it can be a catalyst for dialogue, customized and creative solutions, and ultimately progress. This is what many dispute resolution academics teach their students. But we are caught in such an extraordinarily polarized time, and many wonder what role ADR can and should play in navigating a polarized era. That was the question addressed by Texas A&M School of Law's March 2020 symposium, with the resulting articles - by Baruch Bush & Peter Miller, Jonathan Cohen, Jill DeTemple, …