Connect with CNDR
Physical Address: 100 McAllister Street, Suite 408, San Francisco, CA 94102
Mailing Address: 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Contact us: CNDR@uchastings.edu or call 415.581.8941
Physical Address: 100 McAllister Street, Suite 408, San Francisco, CA 94102
Mailing Address: 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Contact us: CNDR@uchastings.edu or call 415.581.8941
CNDR offers a wide range of courses and experiential learning opportunities for UC Law SF students, as well as interactive training for practitioners.
In addition, CNDR has partnered with local courts and other professional ADR organizations to give students real-world opportunities to learn and practice their dispute resolution skills.
CNDR also participates in many innovative conferences and events that keep our program on the forefront of the dispute resolution community.
Click the links to the right for more information.
This advanced virtual program is for experienced mediators and family law professionals.
CNDR presents its’ annual 40-hour comprehensive mediation practitioner training. Held completely in-person on the UC Law SF Campus.
Catch up on CNDR’s virtual and recorded events – watch and listen for free!
Interview from the conflict resolution podcast We Can Find a Way, by Idil Elveris, a former student from CNDR’s International Court ADR Institute. Director Purcell discusses creating one of the first court ADR programs in the country; the importance of connecting people and focusing on the design of a system; creation of the Institute course; the Center’s many opportunities for experiential learning, and, how technology will lead the future of ADR.
CNDR’s New Frontiers Series brings you Grande Lum, co-author of “America’s Peacemakers,” Provost of Menlo College, and former Director of CNDR. This book tells the story of The Community Relations Service (CRS), a federal agency within the DOJ that assists and mediates in communities as they reconcile and recover from discrimination, hate crimes, and unrest based on issues like race and religion. Provost Lum was Director of CRS under the Obama Administration.
CNDR’s New Frontiers Series brings you Professor Lande discussing how to go beyond traditional mediation labels, and explore using techniques from both positional and interest based models of risk assessment in complementary ways to more effectively meet clients needs, and help them move through disputes. Based on his new book, “Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment: Help Your Clients Make Good Litigation Decisions.”
CNDR’s New Frontiers Series brings you a conversation with Susan Stone and David Cherniss on their innovative past and present Restorative Justice programs in San Francisco and San Mateo, CA. With a focus on system design, integration, sustainability, we will explore the evolution of Restorative Practices in Juvenile Justice, and concluded with a conversation that envisions how courts and dispute resolution might look in a post-2020 world.
Online book party to celebrate the release of “Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict” by Lisa Blomgren, Janet K. Martinez, and Stephanie E. Smith. A labor of love and expertise, this new textbook draws from its authors decades of experience to show how dispute systems can be designed to effect change within all types of organizations and across issues, through both theory and practice.
Over a third of the student body takes an elective course through CNDR each year. We are shaping the future of dispute resolution and we invite you to join us. – Sheila Purcell, CNDR Director and UC Law SF class of ’86