Global Legal Skills Conference 2016
Another New Tribe Part of my transition as a new resident of the Arabian Gulf region involves finding new tribes to join and help lead. In March 2016 , I talked about the ADR tribes that I’ve found in Dubai and Doha. I found another tribe that reflects my new place in the world. At the end of May, I attended the Global Legal Skills Conference in Verona, Italy at the University of Verona's Facolta Giurisprudenza. Last year, I attended this conference for the first time. I came back for the reason that the folks organizing and attending this conference are highly dedicated professors of law from all over the world who want to learn how better to teach law across cultures and across languages. In other words, they are process people – my type of people. Mediators often say that if the process is good, the outcome will be just fine, too. So, if we continue to explore skillful ways of teaching student...