ADR Speakers Series - Spring 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law San Francisco for a public talk series on a variety of dispute resolution topics.

The Spring 2025 ADR Speaker Series will include six influential thought leaders presenting new ideas and cutting edge research to members of the UC Law SF community and the general public. The ADR Speaker Series is held in conjunction with an Advanced ADR Colloquium course for students, taught in 2025 by CNDR Director, Professor Hiro Aragaki.

Talks will be held from 12:30pm to 1:30pm (PST) on selected Wednesdays. Lunch will be provided for the in-person events.

Moderator

Hiro Aragaki, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), UC Law San Francisco

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Schedule of Speakers

 

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from 12:30-1:30pm (PT)

The Dynamics of Infrastructure Dispute Mitigation

Shahla Ali, Professor of Law, Associate Dean (International) and Director of the LLM Program in
Arbitration and Dispute Resolution at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law

In-person and via Zoom

 

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from 12:30-1:30pm (PT)

Dealing with International Dispute Resolution; Multiple Parties and Wicked Problems

Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine and

A.B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, Emerita, Georgetown University

Zoom only

 

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from 12:30-1:30pm (PT)

Settlementality

Jesse Bregant, Assistant Professor, University of Houston Law Center

Zoom only

 

Wednesday, February 19 2025, from 12:30-1:30pm (PT)

The Psychology of Lawyers in Litigation and Negotiation

Jean Sternlight, Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Law, Justice & Policy Program at Texas A&M University School of Law

Zoom only

 

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 from 12:30 – 1:30pm (PT)

How Can Real Practice System Theory Help Attorneys and Mediators Improve Their Performance?

John M. Lande, Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law

In-person and via Zoom

 

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 from 12:30 – 1:30pm (PT)

Joint Session or Caucus? Factors Related to How the Initial Mediation Session Begins

Art Hinshaw, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, Faculty Director, Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center, Clinical Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

Zoom Only

 

Hiro N. Aragaki

Hiro N. Aragaki, J.D. Ph.D. is a tenured professor of law at University of California College of Law, San Francisco and a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS School of Law in London. His scholarship on arbitration has won prestigious accolades and been published in top U.S. law journals. His primary interests cluster around the study of arbitration and mediation from comparative, international, and law and development perspectives. He is frequently called upon to train judges and consult on ADR reform projects around the world, most recently as an Advisor to the Expert Committee on Mediation, Supreme Court of India, an Advisor to the judiciary of Kazakhstan regarding arbitration law reforms, and a mediation expert for the World Bank’s new Business Ready Project. He has served as a neutral for twenty years, most recently with JAMS, and is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute (U.K.) and a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (U.S.). He holds degrees from Yale, Stanford, and Cambridge, and is dual qualified in the U.S. and U.K.

 

Shahla Ali

Shahla Ali is Professor of Law and Associate Dean (International) at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and Director of the LLM Program in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Her work centers on questions of governance, sustainable development and cross-border dispute resolution in the Asia Pacific region. She serves as a bilingual arbitrator (English/Chinese) with HKIAC, LCIA, CIETAC, KCAB and SIAC.

 

 

 

 

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Carrie Menkel-Meadow is Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and A.B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure Emerita at Georgetown University Law Center. She is one of the founders of the modern legal dispute resolution field and has been teaching negotiation, mediation and related subjects for over 35 years. She has published over 15 books and  200 articles in the field, including Very Short Introduction to Negotiation (Oxford University Press 2022),  Mediation and Its Applications for Good Decision Making and Dispute Resolution (2016); Dispute Resolution  Beyond the Adversary Model  (3rd ed. 2019); Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving  (3rd. 2021); Mediation: Practice, Policy and Ethics  3rd^d ed. 2020);  What’s Fair: Ethics for Negotiators (2004);  and a three volume edited treatise Complex Dispute Resolution: Foundations, Decision Making, Multi-Party Dispute Resolution and International Dispute Resolution (2012).  She was the first recipient of the American Bar Association’s Award for Scholarly Excellence in Dispute Resolution (2011), for her work in conceptualizing the role of the lawyer as “problem-solver” and has won the Center for Public Resources Award for Best Scholarly article on dispute resolution three times (1983, 1991 and 1998).  In February 2018 she was awarded the American Bar Foundation’s Award for Outstanding Scholar, representing her decades of research in dispute resolution, legal ethics and the legal profession, and legal feminism. She has also won numerous awards for her teaching.  Professor Menkel-Meadow has taught law and dispute resolution to diplomats, lawyers, law students, mediators, government officials and ordinary citizens in 26 countries (on seven continents). She is an active mediator and arbitrator, as well as policy and strategic planning facilitator, and has consulted for the World Bank, United Nations, the Federal Judicial Center and federal and state courts, and the International Red Cross on matters of conflict resolution and dispute system design.  She has also worked on peace in the Middle East, transnational legal issues in Europe, transitional justice in South America, and new forms of economic cooperation and dispute resolution and legal education in Asia. She has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of disputes in the United States including commercial, class action, employment, health , asbestos, insurance, intellectual property, arts, and education cases, as well as many general civil litigation matters. She has also mediated and arbitrated cases outside of the United States. Before entering academe Professor Menkel-Meadow was a legal services and civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia where she specialized in employment, labor and welfare rights litigation.

Professor Menkel-Meadow graduated cum laude Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, magna cum laude, B.A. (in sociology) and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College, Columbia University. She has been awarded many honorary doctorates, including an Honorary Doctorate in Human Sciences from the KU University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2016. She has taught at the Law Schools of the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Los Angeles, Georgetown University and the University of California, Irvine, and as a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Torino (Italy), Haifa University (Israel), National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), University of Toronto, University of Buenos Aires, Alberto Hurtado University (Chile) and INCAE (Costa Rica and Nicaragua), among others.

 

Jesse Bregant

Professor Bregant earned her J.D. at the University of Illinois College of Law in 2009 and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2018. Her scholarship explores the myriad ways in which lay people experience law, drawing on experimental methods from psychology and economics. Among other topics, she has written about the expressive functions of punishment, children’s beliefs and expectations about rule-breaking, lay perceptions of settlement, and the intuitive origins of private ownership. She currently teaches in the areas of Property Law, Criminal Procedure, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

 

 

Jean Sternlight

JEAN R. STERNLIGHT is the Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law Emeritus and also Founding Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law.  She has taught courses on dispute resolution, including both litigation and alternatives thereto, as well as on psychology and lawyering. Frequently cited by courts and the media, Sternlight is co-author of Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation, and Decision (2d ed. ABA 2021), as well as several other books on dispute resolution. She has published many articles in numerous well-respected journals including Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems, William & Mary Law Review, and The Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution. She was named Outstanding Scholar by the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution in 2015, and was also awarded the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. Sternlight received her B.A. (High Honors) from Swarthmore College, and her J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School.

 

John M. Lande

John Lande is the Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law and former director of its LLM Program in Dispute Resolution.  He earned his J.D. from Hastings College of Law (now UC Law SF) and Ph.D in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He began practicing law and mediation in California in 1980.

The American Bar Association published his books, Lawyering with Planned Early Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money and Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment: Help Your Clients Make Good Litigation Decisions (with Michaela Keet and Heather Heavin).  He developed the Real Practice Systems Project to help practitioners, scholars, and students better understand the realities of dispute resolution practice.   The annotated bibliography for this Project includes many short articles as well as some law review articles explaining the theory.

He has received many awards for his scholarship, including the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution’s award for outstanding scholarly work.  He writes for the Indisputably.org blog.  His website is www.law.missouri.edu/lande.

 

Art Hinshaw

Art Hinshaw is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, the John J. Bouma Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Faculty Director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center, and a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Professor Hinshaw’s research bridges dispute resolution theory and practice, resulting in 3 books as well as 25 articles and book chapters. He has won 3 prestigious awards from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution and has served on several academic and professional committees at the state and national levels. Currently he is a Co-Chair of the Editorial Board for the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Magazine and a regular contributor to Indisputably, the ADR law professor blog.