Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills Teaching
Collections
The DRI Skills Lab is pleased to host several collections of simulations and videos. We have two complete collections at this time and are working on offering a third collection of negotiation and mediation simulations, with teaching notes, written by Marjorie Corman Aaron.
You also will find on this page links to collections maintained by others.
Over the next several months, we will be adding links to additional collections maintained by others.
Collection of Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration and Client Counseling Simulations
Marjorie Corman Aaron
Marjorie Corman Aaron is a Professor of Practice Emerita and former Director of the Center for Practice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she taught negotiation, client counseling, mediation, alternative dispute resolution, trial practice, and decision analysis. She previously served as Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and a Vice President at Endispute, Inc. (now JAMS-ADR).
Since 1988, Professor Aaron has mediated or arbitrated a full range of legal, commercial, employment, and consumer disputes, including claims overseen by special masters in three national class action race and gender discrimination settlements. She has designed and taught workshops on negotiation, mediation, client counseling, decision analysis, and persuasive professional communication for corporations, law firms, and other organizations in the U.S. and internationally.
Professor Aaron is the author of Risk and Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Decision Trees for Assessing Cases and Advising Clients (DRI Press, 2019) and Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients Through Bad News and Other Legal Realities (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Negotiating Outcomes: Pocket Mentor Series (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) as well as many articles, chapters, simulations, and videos.
A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Professor Aaron initially practiced litigation at Goodwin Proctor and as a prosecutor in Massachusetts.
Mediation Case Law Teaching Videos
James Coben
Professor Emeritus James Coben is a senior fellow in Mitchell Hamline’s Dispute Resolution Institute, which he directed from 2000-2009. He teaches civil dispute resolution (civil procedure), advocacy, mediation, negotiation, and a variety of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) courses, including psychology and law. He pioneered a variety of innovative ADR clinical opportunities for law students, including mediation advocacy on behalf of clients in family law and employment cases. For more than two decades he also has produced short videos designed to help viewers learn the lessons of failed mediations, specifically those that resulted in litigation or issuance of ethics opinions.
Professor Coben has published numerous ADR related articles and is a co-author of the Thomson Reuters trial practice series treatise Mediation: Law, Policy & Practice (2023-2024), a co-editor of the four-volume Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Series (DRI Press 2009-2013), and a former editorial board member of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Magazine, for which he co-writes a Research Insights featured column.
As a consultant and trainer, he works with law firms and non-profit companies, as well as state and local government boards and agencies, to improve negotiation skills and the quality of public deliberation and decision-making.
Negotiation Teaching Materials
Jim Hilbert
Jim Hilbert is interim president and dean of Mitchell Hamline School of Law where he has taught full-time since 2010. He teaches Transactions & Settlements, Civil Rights Litigation and Policy Externship, Expert Witness Advocacy, Deals & Dispute Resolution, and International Business Transactions. He is a long-time executive committee member of the St. Paul NAACP and chair of the education committee. He is also ad hoc counsel for the State NAACP. In addition, Professor Hilbert is the co-director of the Expert Witness Training Academy, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and provides training to climatologists on communicating in courtrooms and legislative hearings.
Professor Hilbert’s scholarship covers police reform, state constitutional law, school desegregation, expert witness testimony, and negotiation. Before joining the academy, Professor Hilbert was a civil rights attorney for over ten years and a former legal fellow at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School.