Mediation Blogging at its Finest at Blawg Review # 171

In this week's Blawg Review, the IP ADR Blog covers the best ADR posts of the week. Because virginity is this week's Blawg Review theme, Elizabeth the First -- who brought the world Shakespeare and England an unprecedented reign of peace -- heads up the ADR posts below.





In honor of Elizabeth, I give you posts from my own ADR blog posse this week. First, we honor the newest member, Nancy Hudgins of Civil Negotiation and Mediation who has proven her bargaining cajones by negotiating the price of a bottle of "Old Raj, a distinctive gin . . . distilled with saffron [that has] a slightly orange-ish color and a different subtle but piquant taste." WWED -- What Would Elizabeth do? I think she'd negotiate with terrorists but not without first consulting Andrea Schneider at the ADR Prof Blog. If you read any Blawg Review post this week, let it be Diane Levin's Mediation Channel post All Gardeners are Optimists: What Squirrels Reminded Me about Conflict Resolution. Poetry. (cf. the summer issue of the r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary journal). Gini Nelson offers us wisdom on the Myers Briggs Indicator that will tell you everything you need to know about your "type" other than your sexual preferences. (cf. her ABA article on the same topic here). Are you a Virtual Virgin? Then run right over to Mediation Mensch's post on "Getting Virtual." Though Stephanie West Allen hails from the Renaissance rather then the Elizebethean era, anyone worried about the well-being of their parents should check out her Idealawg post Mediation Can Work in Many Elder Care Situations. We hope Justin Patten won't mind our making him an honorary ADR British Queen by linking to Human Law's post from last week: As we head into recession and a wave of redundancies does the Human Resources profession have some flair and imagination? We do have an American ADR "Queen" -- Chris Annunziata -- who will hopefully forgive me for giving him honorary ADR Queen status. Our academic readers could benefit themselves and our "on the ground" professionals by reading this week's CKA post Why Nobody Really Reads Law Review Notes here. My high school French is bad, but it looks like French mediator Dominique Lopez-Eyechenie is reporting that mediators have been deployed to the Metro to referee disputes there -- is that right Dominique? Finally, the Health Care Neutral (our last honorary male ADR Queen) talks about immunity and couldn't we all use just a little of that?