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Appreciating our Legacy and Engaging the Future: An International Conference for Dispute Resolution Teachers, Scholars, and Leaders

Co-Chairs:

Thomas J. Stipanowich, Nancy Welsh, and Sukhsimranjit Singh

Co-sponsors of the Conference:

The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, and Aggie Dispute Resolution Program, Texas A&M University School of Law

In Cooperation with:

Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, Marquette University Law School, University of Missouri School of Law Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, The Dispute Resolution Institute at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, UC Hastings Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Center on Dispute Resolution at Quinnipiac University School of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, University of Oregon ADR Center, Conflict Resolution Program at Santa Clara University School of Law, Fordham School of Law.

This landmark conference will bring together leading dispute resolution teachers, scholars and leaders of educational programs to compare perspectives on four decades of change in managing and resolving conflict and the challenges and opportunities that we face now and in the future.

Interactive sessions explored:

  • Balancing skills, law, ethics and policy in the classroom
  • Integrating practitioners into our courses, research and programs
  • Mediation and dispute resolution clinics and public service
  • Initiatives aimed at bridging the societal divide
  • Globalization, culture, legal tradition and ethics in the classroom and research
  • How technology is changing what and how we teach
  • Research and scholarship across borders
  • Big Data's revolutionary effect on research

A one-of-a-kind event and network with colleagues from all over the U.S. and abroad.

 

Program Information

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Registration and Breakfast
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Plenary 1:  Appreciating our Legacy: Successes, Failures and Work
                   in Process

  • Andrea Schneider (Moderator)
  • Carrie Menkel-Meadow
  • Sharon Press
  • Len Riskin
  • Jean Sternlight
  • Thomas Stipanowich
  • Douglas Yarn
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Plenary 2:  Engaging our Future:  Opportunities and Challenges

  • Noam Ebner (Moderator)
  • Ava Abramowitz
  • Michael Green
  • Chris Guthrie
  • Lela Love
  • Michael Moffitt
  • Nancy Welsh
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM

Networking Lunch

  • Stephanie Blondell and Carolyn Kass, Organizers

 

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Plenary 3:  Engaging the Real World –
Classroom Teaching and Scholarship

  • Art Hinshaw (Moderator)
  • Jennifer Brown
  • Sarah Cole
  • Dwight Golann
  • John Lande
  • Donna Shestowsky
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Break
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM

Breakout 1:  Learning styles and pedagogy

  • Sarah Cole
  • Brian Pappas
  • Peter Reilly
  • Gary Spitko
  • Maureen Weston
 

Breakout 2:  Research and scholarship with
a real world focus –methodologies and terminology

  • Howard Herman
  • Russell Korobkin
  • Donna Shestowsky
  • Nancy Welsh
  • Roselle Wissler
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Breakout 3:  Integrating adjunct faculty

  • Ava Abramowitz
  • Tracy Allen
  • Dwight Golann
  • Brian Pappas
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Breakout 4:  Research and scholarship with
a real world focus – studying what practitioners actually do

  • Douglas Frenkel
  • Michaela Keet
  • John Lande
  • Donna Stienstra
5:00 PM End and planning for the next day

 

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Plenary 4:  Engaging the Real World – Clinics, Service and Outreach

  • Jennifer Reynolds (Moderator)
  • Kelly Browe-Olson
  • Jill Gross
  • Lisa Kloppenberg
  • Josh Stulberg
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Breakout 1:  ADR and access to justice

  • Cynthia Alkon
  • Jennifer Reynolds
  • Andrea Schneider
  • Jean Sternlight
 

Breakout 2:  Clinics, service and outreach

  • Stephanie Blondell
  • Jill Gross
  • Lela Love    
  • Karen Tokarz             
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Breakout 3:  Bridging the societal divide

  • Art Hinshaw
  • Grande Lum
  • Lydia Nussbaum
  • Carol Pauli
  • Richard Reuben
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Breakout 4:  Dispute resolution programs in evolution

  • Ellen Deason
  • Homer LaRue
  • Sharon Press
  • Peter Robinson
  • Douglas Yarn

 

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Networking Lunch

  • Stephanie Blondell and Carolyn Kass, Organizers
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Plenary 5:  Engaging the Real World –
Globalization and the Technological Revolution

  • Sheila Purcell (Moderator)
  • Hal Abramson
  • Alyson Carrel
  • Colin Rule
  • Amy Schmitz
  • Sukhsimranjit Singh
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Break
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Breakout 1:  Cultures, legal traditionsand ethics in the classroom

  • Sukhsimranjit Singh
  • Michael Colatrella
  • Michael Helfand
  • Ellen Waldman

 

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Breakout 2:  Technology's effect on how and what we teach
  • Erin Archerd
  • Alyson Carrel
  • Lynn Cohn
  • Noam Ebner
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM  Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Breakout 3:  Research and scholarship across borders

  • Tom Stipanowich (Moderator)
  • Hiro Acagaki
  • Hal Abramson
  • Shahla Ali
  • Guillermo Garcia-Sanchez
  • Janet Martinez
  • Victoria Sahani
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Breakout 4:  Big Data's effect on how and what we research

  • Sheila Purcell (Moderator)
  • Jennifer Reynolds (Moderator)
  • Lisa Blomgren Amsler
  • Robert Anderson
  • Anjanette Raymond
  • Amy Schmitz
5:00 PM Conference ends