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Over an extensive history, graphic novels have developed into a legitimate form of fiction and nonfiction for readers and students. Use of graphic novels in classrooms has proven effective in facilitating learning for students, as a conduit for lifelong reading, a tool for increased comprehension and critical literacy, and a stimulus for interest and comprehension. In applying this to teaching negotiation and conflict management, graphic novels may be effective in engaging students and increasing understanding when terms and concepts are confusing or vague, especially in their differences, and can help students understand the process and outcome of negotiation, both objective and subjective. It is in this way that the use of graphic novels in teaching negotiation and conflict management links to the nexus of research, theory, practice, and pedagogy. The article closes by describing these connections, and offering some suggestions for how to source material and include it in classroom settings.

This retrospective offers an empirical analysis of NCMR author demographics, scholarly content, and article impact over the journal's first decade. Results highlight the journal's broad content and scope including distinct networks of knowledge communities focused on both conflict and negotiation and their subfields. Authors interpret existing network patterns and offer future direction as NCMR continues to evolve and grow within the changing landscape of negotiation and conflict management research.

Now in her eighties, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lived a remarkable life. Justice Ginsburg has had an enormous impact on the way United States law respects gender equality, transformed the U.S. Constitution, and lead broad social transformation in America (Dodson, 2015). And while all of this is so, before she completed any of this, Justice Ginsburg was known as Professor Ginsburg, spending seventeen years teaching law at two highly respected institutions of higher education. During this time, she created and taught revolutionary courses on Women and the Law, co-write the first-ever published casebook on sex-based discrimination, and contributed broadly to law scholarship and advocacy (Kay, 2015). Though the time Ginsburg spent working in higher education goes largely unexamined in comparison to her time spent in judicial offices, her life is forever entwined with education, having been a way-making female law student, a pioneering professor and real-world advocate, and an adjudicator who changed the face of education in the United States. This manuscript will report Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s story and give perspective beyond her contributions as judge, focusing on her path to and work as educator.