Dispute Resolution Program
The School's innovative Dispute Resolution Program prepares our graduates as advocates, counselors, problem solvers, negotiators, mediators, arbitrators, and policymakers.
T.C. Smith (left), JD '04, and Professor Tokarz discuss the Civil Rights and Community Justice Clinic victim-offender mediation program with Judge Thomas Frawley of the St. Louis Circuit Court.
The Dispute Resolution Program offers a range of courses and lawyering skills competitions for law students, and Dispute Resolution seminars, speakers, and training programs for students, lawyers, and members of the community.
The Dispute Resolution Program also sponsors mediation trainings, lectures and CLE programs. Click here for training in Springfield.
Upcoming Speakers and Conferences
Information will be posted when available.
Past Speakers and Conferences
Past CLE Programs and Trainings (includes links to videos) [view]
The School's ADR Program hosted the U.S. District Court Seminar, "Federal ADR Fundamentals for Neutrals: Improving on a Decade of Success," in December 2005.
[View video of the seminar.]
Betty Oyella Bigombe, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, spoke on "The Challenges of Mediation: Peace Negotiations with the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda" in October 2008.
[View video of Betty Bigombe's lecture.]
Nuruddin Farah, award-winning Somali writer and negotiator, spoke on “Political Islam and Clan in Present-day Somalia” in February 2007.
Marc Galanter, John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, presented “Fewer Trials, More Law, More Jokes,” in September 2005.
[View video of Marc Galenter's lecture.]
Special Master Kenneth Feinberg spoke on “Negotiating the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund: Mass Tort Resolution Without Litigation,” in September 2004.
[View video of Kenneth Feinberg's lecture.]
