Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
Winner, 2011 Louise Otis Award for Excellence in Mediation Education
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At CNDR, we are committed to providing the theory and training necessary for law students as well as practicing professionals to be effective negotiators, mediators and arbitrators in a world that depends more and more upon collaborative methods to resolve disputes and to solve problems. We do this by offering a rich array of classes to over 500 law students a year, providing negotiation and mediation training to state agencies like the California Public Utilities Commission, and by presenting symposia, conferences and workshops to scholars and practitioners in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 2010 CNDR hosted the symposium "Lie to Me?! How Emotions Matter in Negotiation", offering theory, research, and dialogue on the topics of emotion and psychology in negotiation. In summer 2011, we hosted a court ADR systems design institute (sponsored by the JAMS Foundation) for international judges, lawyers and court administrators; a Negotiation CLE program; an intensive mediation training program and an intensive basic negotiation course for JD students.
Professors Clark Freshman, Melissa Nelken, and Clinical Professor Carol Izumi produce cutting edge scholarship in areas ranging from the effect of emotion on dispute resolution to the psychological dynamics of negotiation to methods of implementing mediation in the criminal justice system. Our adjunct faculty is drawn from the very best ADR practitioners in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our student negotiation teams achieve stellar results including First Place at the 2011 International Competition for Mediation Advocacy in Toronto, Canada and the 2010 Negotiation Challenge in Leipzig, Germany.
At CNDR, we believe that Alternative Dispute Resolution is the way of the future – for attorneys advocating for their clients, and for local and world leaders collaborating to solve problems. By bringing together disciplines such as law, business, government, psychology, anthropology and education, the members of the CNDR community strive to make dispute resolution relevant for all. Knowing how to negotiate to solve problems, make deals, build consensus, avoid violence, and manage intractable disputes is a competency that is vitally needed in the Bay Area and the world.
Melissa Nelken
Acting Director and Faculty Chair
Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
UC Hastings College of the Law