2024 CSDR Symposium

Dispute Resolution at Forty:  Looking Back, Looking Forward

Welcome to the 2024 Mizzou Law Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution 40th anniversary symposium, to be held Friday, Oct. 25 in Hulston Hall on the University of Missouri campus. Registration is free, but required. CLE credit is offered for free as a part of the symposium as well.

RegisTRATION CLOSED

Symposium Schedule

8:00-8:50 a.m.             Check in & continental breakfast

8:50-9:00 a.m.             Welcome:  Dean Paul J. Litton

9:00-9:15 a.m.             Remarks: Professor Ilhyung Lee, Director, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution

9:15-10:30 a.m.           Panel I:  The Traditional Non-Traditional Forms of Dispute Resolution 

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, “The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”  Assuming Schopenhauer is correct in implying that forty years in a life cycle is a point of reflection and examination, and if the dispute resolution field can be seen at its forty-year mark, what is or has the text been and what do you think the commentary will be?  Will that commentary reshape the future, and if so, how?

Moderator:  Alyson Carrel, JD ’04 (Professor, Northwestern Pritzker)

  1. Negotiation/Settlement – Andrea Schneider (Professor, Cardozo)
  2. Mediation – Sarah Rudolph Cole (Professor, Ohio State)
  3. Arbitration – Michael Z. Green (Professor, Texas A&M)

10:30 a.m.                   Break

10:45-11:45 a.m.         Panel II:  How Can the NextGen Bar Exam and Changes in Licensing Promote Innovation in Legal Education?

Changes to the NextGen bar exam and the development of alternative pathways to licensure present exciting opportunities for innovation in legal education.  This panel will discuss the potential goals, opportunities, and challenges in updating and upgrading our ADR curricula.  How can we best integrate skills and doctrine, and prepare the next generation of lawyers?

Moderator:  Brian Pappas, LLM ’08 (Dean & Professor, North Dakota)

  1. Kellie Early, JD ’85 (Director, Academic and Bar Support Services, Missouri; formerly Chief Strategy Officer, National Conference of Bar Examiners)
  2. John Lande (Professor Emeritus, Missouri)

11:45 a.m.                   Break 

12:00-1:00 p.m.          Lunch

1:00-2:00 p.m.            Keynote:  A Conversation with Leonard L. Riskin with Dean Chris Guthrie, Vanderbilt University Law School

Leonard Riskin is a visiting professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law and founding director and senior fellow of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution

2:15-3:55 p.m.            Panel III:  Emerging Trends:  The Next 40 Years?   

Some observers once suggested that fruitful scholarship in the dispute resolution field had reached its peak and questioned the possibility of future contributions.  Challenging this notion, four scholars in the field will offer thoughts about promising lines of research on topics that have not been traditionally explored or that could be further developed.

Moderator:  Art Hinshaw, JD ’93, LLM ’00 (Professor, Arizona State)

  1. Online dispute resolution – Donna Shestowsky (Senior Associate Dean & Professor, UC Davis)
  2. Criminal law and ADR – Cynthia Alkon, LLM ’02 (Professor, Texas A&M)
  3. Restorative justice – Rachel J. Wechsler (Professor, Missouri)
  4. Psychology and dispute resolution – Jennifer K. Robbennolt (Associate Dean & Professor, Illinois)

4:00 p.m.                     Reception and book signing

Leonard L. Riskin, Managing Conflict Mindfully: Don’t Believe Everything You Think (West 2023)

QUESTIONS? Contact Erik Spence: erik.spence@missouri.edu