Alternative Dispute Resolution Program
The School's innovative Dispute Resolution Program prepares our graduates as advocates, counselors, problem solvers, negotiators, mediators, arbitrators, and policymakers. The Dispute Resolution Program offers a range of courses and lawyering skills competitions for law students, and Dispute Resolution seminars, speakers, and training programs for students, lawyers, and members of the community. The ADR Program also sponsors mediation trainings, lectures and CLE programs.
Upcoming Programs
Information will be posted when available.
Past Programs
[view] Past CLE Programs and Trainings (includes links to videos)
Nuruddin Farah, award-winning Somali writer and negotiator, spoke on “Political Islam and Clan in Present-day Somalia” in February 2007.
- T.C. Smith (left), JD '04, and Professor Tokarz
discuss the Civil Rights, Mediation & Community
Justic Clinic victim-offender mediation program
with Judge Thomas Frawley of the
St. Louis Circuit Court.
The School's ADR Program hosted the U.S. District Court Seminar, "Federal ADR Fundamentals for Neutrals: Improving on a Decade of Success," in December 2005. View vide of the seminar.
Marc Galanter, John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, presented “Fewer Trials, More Law, More Jokes,” in September 2005. View video of Marc Galenter's lecture.
Special Master Kenneth Feinberg spoke on “Negotiating the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund: Mass Tort Resolution Without Litigation,” in September 2004. View video of Kenneth Feinberg's lecture.
