Master's Degree Program
The Master's Degree in Dispute Resolution is a 32-unit program offered to those who possess a bachelor's degree. It consists of the following requirements:
Required Courses - 18 units (16 units required for law students)
- One Arbitration Course:
- Arbitration Law*+, Arbitration Practice and Advocacy *or International Commercial Arbitration
- Communication and Conflict
- Cross-Cultural Conflict and Dispute Resolution
- Interviewing, Counseling and Planning
- Legal Process (for non-lawyers and non-law students)
- Mediation Clinic
- Mediation Theory and Practice
- Negotiation Theory and Practice
- Psychology of Conflict
Elective Courses - Eight units required (10 units required for lawyers and law students)
(10 units / five courses required for lawyers and law students)
- Advanced Mediation Seminar
- Advanced Trial Practice +
- Appellate Advocacy +
- Arbitration Law *+
- Arbitration Practice and Advocacy*
- Current Issues in International Dispute Resolution: London/Geneva
- Current Issues in International Dispute Resolution: Hong Kong/Beijing
- Dispute Resolution in Education
- Dispute Resolution and Religion
- Dispute Resolution Law Journal (up to 4 units)
- Divorce and Family Mediation
- Environmental and Public Policy Dispute Resolution
- International Commercial Arbitration**
- International Commercial Dispute Resolution
- International Investment Disputes
- International Litigation +
- Lawyering Process +
- Restorative Justice
- Selected Issues in Dispute Resolution:
- Advanced Divorce and Family Issues
- Advanced Negotiation Theory and Practice
- Advocacy in Mediation and Arbitration
- Apology, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- Dispute Resolution Systems Design
- Dispute Resolution and Technology
- Employment Disputes
- Entertainment Industry Disputes
- Faith-Based Diplomacy and International Peacemaking
- Healthcare Dispute Resolution
- Ideological Foundations for Third Party Processes
- Labor Disputes
- Managing Litigation and Conflict for Corporations and Organizations
- Ombuds
- Trial Practice +
- Trial Preparation and Settlement +
- or a Substantive Law Class with Institute Approval (non-law students only)
Thesis/Project or Externships - Six Units Required
Students are required to complete either 6 units of Thesis or Externship.
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*Students must choose between taking Arbitration Law and Arbitration Practice and are not permitted to take both without prior permission from the Institute. Please also note that Arbitration Law is only available to law students, law school graduates or LL.M. candidates.
**If this course was not taken to fulfill the arbitration requirement, it can be taken as an elective.
+This course is only available to law students, law school graduates or LL.M. candidates.