Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills Teaching

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Skill

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NextGen Bar

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Resources

Dispute resolution legal educators have a long tradition of sharing teaching resources and DRI has facilitated this sharing by collecting and publishing these resources. We are pleased to provide the collection of these resources in a searchable database.

In this database you will find experiential activities, simulations, videos, assignments, lesson plans, teaching tools, and podcasts. All items in the database are offered free of charge for academic use.

You may search this database in a variety of ways, based on “subject matter,” “skill,” etc. We also have added a search facet for “NextGen” which we anticipate will continue to grow with resources as we all learn more about the Next Gen Bar Exam and how best to prepare our students. To get started, choose at least one search option and select a filter. You will see the number of resources that are currently available for each.

This is a dynamic site to which items are added regularly. You also are welcome to submit a resource you wish to share.

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Note that all submissions will be offered free of charge for academic use.

10 Most Recent Additions

Content-specific Resources
Content-specific Resources The following are content-specific modules. Each relates to a broad disciplinary perspective on conflict that is introduced in the course text Perspectives on Conflict: Insights for Professional and Personal Practice. Each module includes a perspective-specific instructor overview and to relevant handouts, classroom activities, discussion prompts, relevant assignments and/or suggested additional teaching resources. This […]
General Course Documents
General Course Documents Introduction for Instructors The mastery of conflict practice requires more than understanding technical skills. It requires an understanding of the many different layers, dimensions and dynamics of conflict itself. It also requires the capacity for reflective insight into ourselves as students, practitioners, (and teachers), into the people with whom we work and […]
Synthesis and Application to Practice
Synthesis and Application to Practice Overview Chapter ten in the primary text summarizes the takeaways from all six content perspectives and organizes them in a way that allows comparative analysis. It includes a chart where students can view the perspectives together in relation to four common questions: How is conflict understood; where does a practitioner […]
Cross-cutting Topics
Cross-cutting Topics Overview Chapter eleven in the primary text takes up three topics that do not fit cleanly within the framework of any one perspective. They are: A discussion of neutrality and impartiality; the challenge of agents representing principals; and a reflection on emotion in conflict work.  This module is an ideal place to add […]
Systems, Structures and the Conflict Ecosystem
Systems, Structures and the Conflict Ecosystem Overview This module introduces the final course perspective on conflict. It also invokes the third of the three metaphors used in this class – the conflict ecosystem. The premise that underlies this module is that conflict does not occur in a vacuum. Almost every conflict has a history, current […]
The Co-creation of Meaning
The Co-creation of Meaning Overview This module can be a bit challenging for students since it questions certain basic assumptions about what people often consider to be “facts” and “truth.” Despite the abstract nature of this week’s topic, there are some pretty clear touchpoints to focus on and it introduces an important, and very different, […]
Language and Symbols
Language and Symbols Overview This module is the first point in the class where the perspectives we are studying reflect a significant paradigm shift. Up until now, the perspectives we have examined look at conflict from an “individualist” perspective – that is, by looking at individual conflict actors, whether through the lens of their bodies […]
The Strategic Mind
The Strategic Mind Overview As you move into this module on the strategic mind, it is possible that students (and you) will have a reaction along the lines of “Finally! This is what conflict is really about! Why didn’t we just start the class here (and why are we bothering with anything else)?”  This potential […]
The Non-conscious Mind
The Non-conscious Mind Overview Euphemistically speaking, this module shifts our primary focus from the “body” to the “mind” and, specifically, to the non-conscious mind. It is important to remember that all  the perspectives examined in this course are interconnected and overlapping. No perspective is completely separate from any other. This is why the various perspectives […]
The Body and Somatics
The Body and Somatics Overview This is the first of the six broad perspectives to be covered in the class. Before turning specifically to the body and Somatics, take time to review with the class the ideas introduced in the introduction to Part II (pages 56-61) or equivalent introductory discussion. This introduction sets up a […]

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