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Hazards of the Job: Good Listening and Mental Health
January 26, 2016
To the extent that a mediator’s job involves listening to people complain and engage in negative behaviour, mediators face a serious mental health hazard. Research shows that listening to ongoing negativity impairs the brain function of the listener. Yes! Listening can be bad for you if you have a whinging party in the room, and it’s even worse if you have two or more. Trevor Blake writes about this phenomenon in his book, Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life. While...
January 26, 2016
To the extent that a mediator’s job involves listening to people complain and engage in negative behaviour, mediators face a serious mental health hazard. Research shows that listening to ongoing negativity impairs the brain function of the listener. Yes! Listening can be bad for you if you have a whinging party in the room, and it’s even worse if you have two or more. Trevor Blake writes about this phenomenon in his book, Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life. While...
Ambiguous Petition = No CAFA Remand
January 25, 2016
A plaintiff class alleged that Chesapeake’s oil and gas production in the Fort Worth area trespassed on their property interests. The defendants removed under CAFA, the district court remanded under that statute’s “local controversy exception,” and the Fifth Circuit reversed. The key appellate issue was whether the plaintiff class was “narrow” — only current owners of mineral interests — or “broad” — current and former interests since a series of foreclosures began in 2004....
January 25, 2016
A plaintiff class alleged that Chesapeake’s oil and gas production in the Fort Worth area trespassed on their property interests. The defendants removed under CAFA, the district court remanded under that statute’s “local controversy exception,” and the Fifth Circuit reversed. The key appellate issue was whether the plaintiff class was “narrow” — only current owners of mineral interests — or “broad” — current and former interests since a series of foreclosures began in 2004....
Transparency in Arbitrator Selection
January 25, 2016
Professor Catherine A. Rogers, Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar and Professor of Ethics, Regulation & The Rule of Law at Penn State Law, and Director of the Institute for Ethics Regulation & The Rule of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, has written “Transparency in Arbitrator Selection,” Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration, Forthcoming. In her scholarly essay, Professor Rogers discusses recent developments with regard to transparency in the context of arbitrator...
January 25, 2016
Professor Catherine A. Rogers, Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar and Professor of Ethics, Regulation & The Rule of Law at Penn State Law, and Director of the Institute for Ethics Regulation & The Rule of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, has written “Transparency in Arbitrator Selection,” Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration, Forthcoming. In her scholarly essay, Professor Rogers discusses recent developments with regard to transparency in the context of arbitrator...
Emotion Recognition Software: Future Tool for Negotiators?
January 25, 2016
Software is available that developers claim can measure the emotions revealed on a person’s face. If it’s accurate and could be used discretely on some kind of personal device or Google Glass, future negotiators could have real time input on the emotions the other party is showing. This could change how a negotiation is done. Microsoft has a new app that reportedly can measure feelings exhibited on a person’s face when a photo is taken. It breaks up the image of the face into emotional constituents...
January 25, 2016
Software is available that developers claim can measure the emotions revealed on a person’s face. If it’s accurate and could be used discretely on some kind of personal device or Google Glass, future negotiators could have real time input on the emotions the other party is showing. This could change how a negotiation is done. Microsoft has a new app that reportedly can measure feelings exhibited on a person’s face when a photo is taken. It breaks up the image of the face into emotional constituents...
Law Schools Have Shed 1,206 Full-Time Faculty Since 2010
January 24, 2016
Matt Leichter has published the 2015 edition of his Which Law Schools Are Shedding Full-Time Faculty? Law schools have shed 1,206 full-time faculty (13.3%) since 2010, and 249 full-time faculty (3.1%) since last year. 142 law schools have shed full-time faculty since 2010, with 21 law schools shedding 20 or more full-time faculty:
January 24, 2016
Matt Leichter has published the 2015 edition of his Which Law Schools Are Shedding Full-Time Faculty? Law schools have shed 1,206 full-time faculty (13.3%) since 2010, and 249 full-time faculty (3.1%) since last year. 142 law schools have shed full-time faculty since 2010, with 21 law schools shedding 20 or more full-time faculty:
Study Confirms That Crash Rates Are Lower for Self-Driving Cars
January 24, 2016
Crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars, according to a new report out of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute that was commissioned by self-driving car developer Google. While self-driving cars have a rate of 3.2 crashes per million of miles, traditional driver-operated cars have a rate of 4.2 crashes per million miles, according to the study that adjusted the data for unreported crashes and takes into account accident severity. The authors...
January 24, 2016
Crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars, according to a new report out of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute that was commissioned by self-driving car developer Google. While self-driving cars have a rate of 3.2 crashes per million of miles, traditional driver-operated cars have a rate of 4.2 crashes per million miles, according to the study that adjusted the data for unreported crashes and takes into account accident severity. The authors...
Google Gets Real About Virtual Reality
January 24, 2016
Google Inc. is ready to compete with Facebook, Apple and Microsoft when it comes to virtual reality. Google CEO Sundar Pichai formed a virtual reality division and named Clay Bavor vice president of the division on Tuesday, according to Re/code, citing sources familiar with the situation. Senior Vice President Diane Greene, who joined the company in November, will take over Bavor’s responsibilities in overseeing Web applications. Bavor’s previous title was vice president of product management. In...
January 24, 2016
Google Inc. is ready to compete with Facebook, Apple and Microsoft when it comes to virtual reality. Google CEO Sundar Pichai formed a virtual reality division and named Clay Bavor vice president of the division on Tuesday, according to Re/code, citing sources familiar with the situation. Senior Vice President Diane Greene, who joined the company in November, will take over Bavor’s responsibilities in overseeing Web applications. Bavor’s previous title was vice president of product management. In...
Symposium On Law School Survival
January 23, 2016
Michele R. Pistone (Villanova) & John J. Hoeffner, No Path But One: Law School Survival in an Age of Disruptive Technology, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 193 (2013) Mark Strasser (Capital), Tenure, Financial Exigency, and the Future of American Law Schools, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 269 (2013) Elizabeth M. Bloom (New England), Teaching Law Students to Teach Themselves: Using Lessons From Educational Psychology to Shape Self-Regulated Learners, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 311 (2013) Katie Rose Guest Pryal (North Carolina),...
January 23, 2016
Michele R. Pistone (Villanova) & John J. Hoeffner, No Path But One: Law School Survival in an Age of Disruptive Technology, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 193 (2013) Mark Strasser (Capital), Tenure, Financial Exigency, and the Future of American Law Schools, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 269 (2013) Elizabeth M. Bloom (New England), Teaching Law Students to Teach Themselves: Using Lessons From Educational Psychology to Shape Self-Regulated Learners, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 311 (2013) Katie Rose Guest Pryal (North Carolina),...
Google Chairman Thinks AI Can Help Solve World’s ‘Hard Problems’
January 23, 2016
Hot Field Google has been one of the most significant corporate backers of AI. It uses the technology for new businesses, like self-driving cars, and to improve existing ones, such as the Android phone operating system or Google’s search engine. But competition is heating up as Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp, International Business Machines Corp., Baidu Inc. and others are also plowing resources into research for the technology. “The power of AI technology is it can solve problems that scale...
January 23, 2016
Hot Field Google has been one of the most significant corporate backers of AI. It uses the technology for new businesses, like self-driving cars, and to improve existing ones, such as the Android phone operating system or Google’s search engine. But competition is heating up as Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp, International Business Machines Corp., Baidu Inc. and others are also plowing resources into research for the technology. “The power of AI technology is it can solve problems that scale...
EU Mandates ODR for Online Stores
January 23, 2016
The evidence is mounting: 2016 will be the year consumer online dispute resolution fully emerges into the mainstream. The biggest...
January 23, 2016
The evidence is mounting: 2016 will be the year consumer online dispute resolution fully emerges into the mainstream. The biggest...
