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Blawg Review #171 and The Virginity Project

If you're old enough to remember this video, you'll be happy to hear you can feel like a virgin again for the very first time at the Blawg Review Carnival of Legal Bloggers this week because it's bringing you the IP ADR Virgin Blawg Review #171 and Kate Monro's The Virginity Project for the very first time.



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The IP ADR Blog Has a New Home!

(OK, it's the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. But what better symbol for the IP ADR Blog's new home than a museum whose former antiquities curator, Marion True, has been on trial in Rome for 19 months on charges of trafficking in looted antiquities and whose conflict with Italy over 51 artifacts held by the Getty seems intractable. See some of the NYTimes coverage on these and other Getty disputes here and here).

We here at the IP ADR Blog -- Les Weinstein, Mike Young, Eric Van Ginkel, and Vickie Pynchon -- have "lived" here at the http://www.ipadrservices.blogspot.com/ address only since May and we're already moving?

That's right! The plan all along was to have the brilliant Kevin O'Keefe over at LexBlog provide us with a professionally designed and managed IP ADR Blog. We were only just tinkering here with blogspot while waiting for the interior decorator to put the finishing touches on our spacious new living room.

So we invite our few regular readers, as well as any new ones, over to our new house for a summer IP bar-b-q.

Break out the sun-screen and BYOB. We'll supply the virtual ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers and soda pop.

Drop by and leave us a welcome note. We think you'll find the water in the pool just cool enough to end your work-week and begin your weekend on a refreshing Southern California summer surfing note.

IPADRBLOG.COM HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



The IPADR Negotiation Dictionary: Distributive Bargaining


aka "cutting the baby in half"
(left: King Soloman. Although we use the term "cutting the baby in half" to signify compromise, the phrase refers to Soloman's "reality test" for two women, each claiming to be an infant's mother. When the King suggested that the baby should be cut in half, the woman who gave up her claim to the infant rather than to see her child die, was declared to be its mother. Therefore, the term should be more readily associated with integrative or interest-based negotiation than with distributive bargaining. In an interest-based negotiation, the term would be used dismissively to refer to the the harm that could befall the parties if they accept a compromise for its own sake rather than exploring party-interests that could be satisfied by a proposed negotiated resolution).
  • the process by which the parties distribute the substance over which they are negotiating
  • the “spread” between the parties’ respective bottom lines
  • a Zero Sum exchange in which whatever one side gains, the other side loses
  • means of reaching a deal in which one party generally has to suffer the larger portion of the “loss” on the spread
  • classic “win-lose” negotiation

  • parties move toward resolution through a series of concessions

  • when mediating, the parties often use the mediator as a “conduit” for the series of concessions



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