Connect with CNDR
Address: 100 McAllister, Suite 408, San Francisco, CA 94012
Contact us: CNDR@uchastings.edu or call 415.581.8941
Address: 100 McAllister, Suite 408, San Francisco, CA 94012
Contact us: CNDR@uchastings.edu or call 415.581.8941
CNDR offers a wide range of courses and experiential learning opportunities for UC Hastings 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.
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Brainstorming is an important skill set for exploring options and solutions, and key to creating a successful legal career. Developing the ability use new information to see things from new perspectives is integral to the law. In this fun and engaging workshop, we will use non-linear drawing and explore current neuroscience research on activating language and memory development. No artistic experience required, just bring something to draw on and with! Students, faculty, and staff only. Not open to the public.
From CNDR: Human emotions are vital in mediation: They let us know what matters, they help us connect with others, and they propel us to action. At the same time, people in conflict often experience intense negative emotions that can derail a mediation. This session will provide a basis for understanding the neurobiology of emotion, as well as provide tools for enhancing the positive emotions – and managing the negative emotions – of participants, attorneys, and mediators themselves.
From CNDR: So many of us are relying on social media to keep connected with others during these challenging times, yet few of us know how to effectively disagree online, and there’s so much to disagree about! Join this interactive workshop where we’ll discuss better ways to disagree online. We’ll go over simple techniques that can help you keep friends, and create openness to other ways of thinking. There will be practice and group discussion to cultivate ideas for more effective ways to disagree online.
2021's conference theme is Virtual Learning & Inclusion. Hosted by the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), with our co-host, the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law, this annual gathering brings together law, business school, and undergrad ADR and Negotiation faculty from throughout Northern California to share best practices, and explore new topics and innovations in pedagogy in dispute resolution.
Catch up on CNDR’s virtual and recorded events – watch and listen for free!
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.
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.”
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 Hastings class of ’86