Active Research Projects:

• The Arab Gulf Conflict: Legal Consequences and Solutions
  • Book addresses the legal and dispute resolutions aspects of the blockade imposed on Qatar by its neighboring countries.

• The Crisis in Insurance Coverage for Mediators: Part 2: Coverage for Mediators Entering the Field from the Mental Health Professions.
  • Unpublished manuscript.
  • Need to update research and submit it for publication.

• The Crisis in Insurance Coverage for Mediators: You May as Well Be “Going Bare” Because “There’s No There There” — Part 3: Specialized Coverage for Mediators
  • Unpublished manuscript.
  • Need to update research and submit it for publication.

• ADR in The Arab Gulf: Conversations About Training, Capacity and Culture
  • Research ongoing.
  • Need to write article.

• The Siege of Qatar: Real-Time Analysis Using Dispute Resolution Theory
  • Research ongoing.
  • Need to write article.

• Regulating UPL in the Mediation Context: How Will the Supreme Court’s Decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. F.T.C. Influence the Regulators?
  • Need to complete research.
  • Need to write the article.

• Revising the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines: How to Improve Siting Decisions to Have Lesser Impact on Birds, Bats, and other Wildlife?
  • Need to complete research.
  • Revision of Guidelines is in process, so I need to decide whether to write an article designed to influence the revision process or to write an article analyzing the new Guidelines (or both).
  • Need to write the article(s).

• Bat Deaths at Windfarms: Making the Case for Siting Windfarms Outside the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Research completed.
  • Need to write the article.

• Protecting the Red Wolf When the Species Wants to Hybridize: Perpetual Zoo on the North Carolina Coast or Tough Policy Decision to End the Protection Program?
  • Research completed.
  • Need to write the article.

• Do Lapses in Procedural Justice Explain Ethics Complaints Filed Against Mediators?
  • Research completed through 2008 ethics complaints.
  • Need to bring research current.
  • Need to write article.

• Party Self-Determination: Teaching Mediation Ethics Through the Use of Florida Grievance Decisions
  • Part of a series of articles describing the active learning techniques I use to teach mediation ethics.
  • Research completed through 2008 ethics complaints.
  • Need to bring research current.
  • Need to write article.

• The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Promise Made is a Debt Unpaid
  • Analysis of the TRC process used in Greensboro, North Carolina in connection with the murders of labor organizers by members of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1970s.
  • Some research completed.
  • Need to interview people involved in the project.

• Bibliography of books and articles on active learning and other techniques for teaching law.
  • Involves updating the annotated bibliography I developed in 2008 that Gerry Hess posted on the website of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law.