Helen Winter
Biography
Dr. Helen Winter is an Assistant Professor of Law and Practice at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, teaching at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Dr. Winter teaches in the Straus Institute’s academic programs and professional training programs and provides mentorship and advisory services to international students.
Professor Winter holds a law degree with a focus on International Public Law from Heidelberg University, and an LL.M in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine Caruso Law Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Before coming to Pepperdine, she served as a Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School while completing her Ph.D. at European University Viadrina in Germany. Dr. Winter's Ph.D. thesis (magna cum laude) examines the link between ADR and self-efficacy in the refugee setting. At Harvard, Professor Winter researched proven strategies for bias reduction, and peer mediation mechanisms as a means to promote self-efficacy for refugees and migrants. She additionally assisted with teaching, mentoring, and training future mediators and ADR professionals around topics such as cross-cultural mediation, systems design, and negotiation.
Dr. Winter has an extensive background in mediation and intercultural dispute resolution. In addition to having served as a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, she has also worked at the European University of Viadrina. She further has run her own mediation practice and co-founded R3SOLUTE, a charitable organization based in Berlin that empowers refugees and locals to manage and prevent community conflicts through dialogue and peer mediation. She has worked with the United Nations Office of the Ombudsman and Mediation Services (UNOMS), addressing systemic issues. Professor Winter also serves as an ambassador for the International Justice Mission in Germany.
Dr. Winter has been published in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and Conflict Resolution Quarterly and has been invited to speak at numerous events, webinar series, and podcasts within the ADR community both nationally and internationally, including at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. She hopes to use her position to continue researching ways to foster agency and self-efficacy of underrepresented minorities of society through a bottoms-up approach to ADR while supporting the Pepperdine community.
Education
- PhD, European University Viadrina, 2024, magna cum laude
- Graduate Research Fellowship, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School, 2022
- L.L.M, Pepperdine University, 2017
- German Law degree, University of Heidelberg, 2016