Faculty

Professor Karen TokarzProfessor Karen Tokarz, a highly respected civil rights mediator and director of the School’s nationally recognized Clinical Education Program, was appointed faculty director of the School’s new Alternative Dispute Resolution Program in January 2004.
C. J. Larkin, Administrative DirectorC.J. Larkin, an experienced mediator and mediation trainer, is the administrative director. Tokarz and Larkin coordinate the mediation component of the Civil Rights & Community Justice Clinic and teach Mediation and ADR Theory & Practice.
Professor Rebecca Hollander-BlumoffRebecca Hollander-Blumoff, teaches Negotiation Theory & Practice and Advanced Negotiation.
Professor Judi McLean ParksJudi McLean Parks, the Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior at Washington University's Olin School of Business, teaches Business Negotiation Theory & Practice.

 

Dean Kent SyverudKent Syverud, Dean and Ethan H. Shepley University Professor, teaches Negotiation each semester.

The ADR Program adjunct faculty includes top local practitioners with expertise in various fields: Thomas Blumenthal, an attorney and mediator with Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C.; Joseph Colagiovanni, a construction law attorney with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP; Leonard Frankel, an attorney and mediator with Frankel, Rubin, Bond, Dubin, Siegel & Klein, P.C.; Alan Freed, an attorney and mediator with Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C.; Michael Geigerman, Managing Director of U.S. Arbitration and Mediation Midwest, Inc.;  Robert Litz, an arbitrator and mediator with the St. Louis firm of Carter Bauer Soule; Robert Millstone, President, The Millstone Company; James W. Reeves, a principal with Conflict Management Systems; Joseph Soraghamn, an arbitrator and mediator for the National Association  of Securities Dealers, Inc., and a principal at Danna McKitrick, P.C.; and Kathleen Whitby, Of Counsel to the St. Louis firm of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, LLP.

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In the News

2009

  • Tokarz named to Missouris ADR Commission [more]
  • Students Pursuing International Public Interest [more]
  • Larkin in Utrecht as Fulbright Senior Specialist [more]

2008

  • Students Pursuing International Public Interest [more]
  • Tokarz in South Africa through Fulbright Program [more]

2007

  • Mediation Project Assists Ethnic Communities [more]
  • Nepali Delegation Observing ADR Techniques [more]