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Awareness And Ethics In Dispute Resolution And Law: Why Mindfulness Tends To Foster Ethical Behavior, Leonard Riskin
Awareness And Ethics In Dispute Resolution And Law: Why Mindfulness Tends To Foster Ethical Behavior, Leonard Riskin
Leonard L Riskin
This paper is an extended version of a luncheon presentation given at the Symposium, Ethics in the Expanding World of ADR: Considerations, Conundrums, and Conflicts, sponsored by South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 2, 2007.
Mindfulness: Foundational Training For Dispute Resolution, Leonard Riskin
Mindfulness: Foundational Training For Dispute Resolution, Leonard Riskin
Leonard L Riskin
This Article addresses the problem of mindlessness in counseling, negotiating, and mediating, and offers potential solutions and recommendations for developing foundational capacities through training in mindfulness meditation.
Damages: Using A Case Study To Teach Law, Lawyering, And Dispute Resolution, Leonard Riskin
Damages: Using A Case Study To Teach Law, Lawyering, And Dispute Resolution, Leonard Riskin
Leonard L Riskin
Seven law school faculty members and one practicing attorney recently developed and taught a wholly new kind of law course based on an already published case study, Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine, by Barry Werth, an investigative reporter who spent several years researching to write the book. Damages, an in-depth account of a medical malpractice case, presents the perspectives of the injured family, the defendant physician, the lawyers, and the three mediators. In this Symposium Introduction, the authors provide a summary of Werth's book, explain why they decided to create a course based on his …