Mediation
BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL (LL-92502 [Fall] and LL-92501 [Spring])

FALL and SPRING 2012/2013
Instructors:
Ericka Gray

Whether you incorporate mediation into your practice as an advocate for your client or you choose to become a mediator, this course provides a sound theoretical and practical skills base necessary for ethical practice. Beginning with an overview of interest based negotiation, mediation … Read More 

Labor and Employment Arbitration
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

SPRING 2013
Instructor:
Marc D. Greenbaum
617-573-8369

This course will examine arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism in two related, but distinct, contexts. First, the course will study the legal principles applicable to the widely accepted use of arbitration as a means of resolving disputes arising under public and private sector collective … Read More 

Labor Arbitration Workshop (LAW2511)
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

SPRING and SUMMER 2012
Instructor:
Roger Abrams
617-373-2068

In this workshop, students will explore the important role of alternative dispute resolution in the workplace. Using court and arbitration decisions as well as supplementary materials, students will discuss the relationship between arbitration and the judicial system, a union’s duty of fair representative, issues … Read More 

Arbitration: Labor and Employment
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW

SPRING 2012

Instructor:
Richard D. Zaiger

This course has two distinct but related goals. First, it is an in-depth study of the law governing labor and employment arbitration. In that sense, it is like a traditional law school course. Second, it is designed to teach the skills necessary for advocates and … Read More 

International Commercial Arbitration (LAW-38882A)
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

WINTER 2013

Instructors:
Mark Beckett
Daniel Tan

This course provides a rigorous introduction to the field of international commercial arbitration, which has become the default means of settling international disputes. The course will deal with the internationalist elements of the subject matter, but will also examine international commercial arbitration from an American perspective. Students … Read More 

International Business Arbitration
BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL (JD980)

FALL 2012
Instructor:
William W. Park
617-353-3149

Legal dimensions of international business dispute resolution through binding arbitration. Treaty framework for determining validity of arbitration agreement and for recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards (New York Convention, Panama Convention, Washington Convention). Comparative approach (French, English, Swiss, and U.S. legal systems) to the influence of … Read More 

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL (LL 45101)

FALL 2012

Instructor:
Philip D. O’Neill, Jr.

The old maxim “where business goes, disputes soon follow” has renewed vitality in an age of globalization. As cross-border commerce follows American business abroad, and offshore foreign investment flows into the U.S., the potential for clashes in the business expectations of … Read More 

Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

SPRING 2013

Instructor:
Bette J. Roth
Suffolk Law School

This seminar examines the role of lawyers as societal problem solvers employing various methods of analyzing, reducing and resolving legal and other forms of dispute without resort to formal trial. Although some disputes can only be properly resolved through trial and appeal, the vast … Read More 

Alternative Dispute Resolution
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

FALL 2012/SPRING 2013

Instructor:
Dwight Golann
Fall 2012
Suffolk Law School
617-573-8183

Robert Smith
Spring 2013
Suffolk Law School
617-573-8573

One of a lawyer’s primary tasks is to resolve disputes. Most controversies are never decided by a court, but instead are settled by agreement. The ability to negotiate and mediate effectively is thus crucial for litigators as well as lawyers … Read More 

Alternative Dispute Resolution
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

FALL 2011
Instructor:
Sarah Garraty
617-353-2395

Law school courses focus almost exclusively on adjudication as a model for resolving legal disputes, yet only a fraction of disputes actually go to trial. This course exposes students to the many alternatives to trial, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, and hybrid combinations of these methods. After … Read More