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Thomas J. Stipanowich, J.D.
William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution, Academic Director Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: thomas.stipanowich@pepperdine.edu

  • J.D., University of Illinois, 1980, magna cum laude
  • M. Arch, University of Illinois, 1976
  • B.S., University of Illinois, 1974, highest honors
Thomas J. Stipanowich is a leader in the field of conflict resolution. He is an award-winning author and much-cited authority on arbitration, mediation, and other subjects; the director of one of the world's pre-eminent academic programs on dispute resolution; the former chief executive of another prestigious international institution; a popular teacher and trainer; a respected and widely experienced arbitrator and mediator; and the winner of several of the dispute resolution field's highest honors, including the American Bar Association's prestigious D'Alemberte/Raven Award. He holds Pepperdine School of Law's endowed chair in dispute resolution, the William H. Webster Chair.

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Selected Works:
  • Arbitration and Choice: Taking Charge of the "New Litigation", 7 DEPAUL BUS. & COM. L.J. 3 (forthcoming 2009) (symposium issue).
  • Arbitration: The "New Litigation", 2010 U. ILL. L.REV. 1 (forthcoming Jan. 2010).
  • Speeches: The Future of Commercial Arbitration, 9 PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 415.
  • Real Time Strategies for Relationship Conflict, IBA LEGAL PRACTICE DIVISION MEDIATION NWSLTR., July 2007, at 6.
  • The Arbitration Penumbra: Arbitration Law and the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Dispute Resolution, 8 NEV. L.J. 427 (2007).
  • Mediation Could be Key to Improving U.S.-Chinese Business Relations, L.A. DAILY J., Nov. 28, 2007, at 4.
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