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Several outstanding faculty members from the U.S., Australia, Germany and other European countries will teaching the courses and give lectures in the afternoons or evenings on arbitration and other ADR topics at the 21th International Summer School on Dispute Resolution 2019. More...
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Past Faculty The past programs e.g. have been taught inter alia by the following professors: |
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Chris G. Abele, LL.M. (Brussels), |
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Prof. Dr. Nadja Alexander |
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Adam Babich, J.D. (Yale) |
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Paul Barron, (University of Pennsylvania) is The Class of 1937 Professor of Law at Tulane University. He teaches Negotiation & Mediation Advocacy and commercial law. He had been an active arbitrator and mediator for many years, serving on the labor and commercial panels of the American Arbitration Association and the labor panel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Professor Barron is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. |
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Gary B. Born, J.D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania), attorney at law, partner in the law firm "WilmerHale". He is universally regarded as one of the world's preeminent authorities on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. He heads the firm's international arbitration practice and has been ranked for the past decade as one of the world's leading arbitration practitioners. Author of "International Civil Litigation in United States Courts" and "International Commercial Arbitration in the United States", two standard treatises. |
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Dr. Greg Bond, Greg Bond was born in the UK and has lived in Germany for over twenty years. He teaches mediation, negotiation and cross-cultural communication in commercial law, management and MBA programs at the Technical University of Wildau, near Berlin, Germany. He works as a mediator and moderator, particularly in workplace mediation and corporate team development, and as a mediation trainer. He also trains professionals in peer coaching. In his university work, he has worked on intensive cross-cultural training programs with international students in Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, and the USA. He has a master’s in mediation from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt / Oder, and a PhD in German literature. He has published widely on mediation, including a casebook, Mediation Practice: 8 Cultures, 16 Cases, 128 Creative Solutions (Paris: ICC, 2016), and a book of training roleplays, International Commercial Mediation Role-Plays (ed. with Colin J Wall; Paris: ICC, 2015), and he also writes on contemporary literature www.bond-bond.de; www.th-wildau.de/bond. |
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Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidenbach, University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, habilitated about Mediation. Honorary professor at the University Vienna, Visiting fellow, Center for European Law, King´s College London. He is one of the best known scholars in Germany in the field of ADR, author of some essential books like: "Mediation", Köln 1995, and together with M. Henssler: "Mediation für Juristen", Köln, 1997 |
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Dr. Dörte Busch, LL.M. (Wales) Rechtsanwältin and trained mediator, Partner of Busch & Meyer, a boutique law firm specialized in medical law. She is working at the Institut für Anwaltsrecht teaching negotiation, mediation and drafting contracts. She is a specialized lawyer in medical law, primarily working in the fields of pharmaceutical and health law implementing her ADR skills to help her clients.a lawyer and practicing mediator focusing primarily on business mediation, employment dispute resolution and health care mediation. Her professional experience includes business and family mediation in cross-border disputes. She teaches mediation and ADR skills at various universities and conducts trainings for legal trainees and practitioners. |
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Claudia Conrad, LL.M. (Exeter) Rechtsanwältin / Mediator, studied public finances in Berlin and law in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. She is a trained Mediator teaching Mediation classes at Humboldt-University. |
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Katie Deuschl is a lawyer and practicing mediator focusing primarily on business mediation, employment dispute resolution and health care mediation. Her professional experience includes business and family mediation in cross-border disputes. She teaches mediation and ADR skills at various universities and conducts trainings for legal trainees and practitioners. Katie holds a law degree from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and was trained at the Heidelberger Institut für Mediation and Heidelberg University. Her work experience includes working for Human Rights Watch in Washington, DC and for a Chinese NGO in Beijing
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Prof. Dr. Horst Eidenmüller, LL.M. (Cambridge) is one of the internationally leading scholars on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at Munich University where he holds a Chair for Corporate Law and Corporate Bankruptcy. He is the founding director of the Center for Negotiation and Mediation (CVM) at that University and former scholar of the Project on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Eidenmüller has an extensive mediation and arbitration experience and publishes extensively on these issues. Both academically and practically, he is recognized as one of the leading voices in the field. |
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Arno Eisen, LL.M. (NUS / NYU)
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Prof. Dr. Siegfried Elsing, LL.M. (Yale)
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Fedtke |
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Alexander Foerster, M.C.L (Stockholm) Rechtsanwalt and Swedish Advokat. Partner of Mannheimer Swartling (Frankfurt Office). He has been working in the field of International Arbitration and Litigation for many years in particular with German and Swedish clients. |
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Bobby Harges, LLM (Harvard) is the Adams and Reese Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola
University New Orleans College of Law where he teaches dispute
resolution, torts, evidence, sports law, and criminal law. An
attorney, active mediator and arbitrator in Louisiana and
Mississippi since 1990, Professor Harges has mediated and
arbitrated over 1000 cases of all types. Professor Harges has
trained lawyers, judges, mental health professionals, and various |
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Philip J. Harter, J.D. (Michigan) |
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Christian Hartwig
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Julie H. Jackson, JD (Harvard) Assistant dean for public interest programs and adjunct professor of law at Tulane teaching mediation and serving as a mediator in employment discrimination cases. Before joining Tulane’s faculty she practiced labor and employment law. Dean Jackson has estab-lished and oversees the Community Service Program of Tulane Law School, the first mandatory pro bono program at an American law school and coordinated the New Orleans EEOC Pilot Mediation Program. |
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Christopher Kee LL.B B.A.(Hons)(Deakin), Grad Dip Laws (UQ), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Victoria, New South Wales and the High Court of Australia, Senior Research Assistant Universität Basel, Lecturer Deakin University, Executive Committee Member - Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA), Member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) Rules Drafting Committee, published extensively within the field of international commercial arbitration. |
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Kimberlee K. Kovach, J.D. (Capital University); BS (Ohio State), |
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Lela Porter Love, J.D. (Georgetown), |
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Moti Mordehai Mironi |
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Forrest “Woody” Mosten has been in private mediation practice since 1979. He is an experienced master mediation trainer. He teaches mediation as a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law and within the Dispute Resolution Program at Pepperdine School of Law. He published extensively on mediation. In addition to his work as a neutral, Mr. Mosten maintains an active practice as a family lawyer. He practices with a collaborative and problem solving model and has trained Collaborative Lawyers throughout the world and serves as a negotiation and mediation consultant for other family litigators. For his achievements he received numerous awards. For further information click here… |
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Nelle, M.P.A. (Harvard) Rechtsanwalt and partner at the law firm Raue LLP. Professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin law faculty. He worked on the "Harvard Project on Negotiation". Practicing mediator, member of the ADR Section of the German Bar Association. Published extensively in the field of ADR. Together with Prof. Eidenmüller, he has developed a training program on negotiation for students and practitioners. |
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Dr. Constantin Olbrisch Rechtsanwalt and Mediator with a focus on workplace dispute
resolution / mediation and employment law. He is partner of the
mediation-firm "Kanzlei für Verhandlungsmanagement und
Mediation" in Berlin. Further he is responsible for the "Zentrum für
Betriebs- und Sozialpartnerschaft" of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of
Governance. He lectures at the Hertie School of Governance,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Rostock, the
Kammergericht Berlin (Regional Higher Court of Berlin), at the
academy for judges of Brandenburg and the ministries of justice of
Berlin and Mecklenburg-Pomerania. Subjects of his teaching and
trainings are: "Cooperation and Strategies among employers and
employees", cooperative negotiation tactics, business-mediation and "value-based leadership" |
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Elisabeth Opie BA LLB (Hons) LLM GAICD is a technology lawyer with extensive experience in cross-border
business transactions and disputes. During a 16-year career at the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization,
she held senior executive management positions and received a
number of awards, including the Australian Young Corporate
Lawyer of the Year, Business Excellence Awards, and a Strategic
Excellence Award. Elisabeth has been guest lecturer at Monash
University and Deakin University in Australia, in the areas of
international trade law, intellectual property commercialization, and
e-commerce. She is co-founder of the Asia-Pacific Forum for
International Arbitration and currently serves on its Executive
Board. |
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Prof. Dr. Christoph G. Paulus,
LL.M. (Berkeley), |
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David L. Patrón, BA (Princeton), JD (Stanford)
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William R. Pitts, J.D. (Tulane)
Mr. Pitts has been engaged in a private dispute resolution practice for the past 14 years and has mediated and arbitrated more than 1100 cases. He has taught intercultural negotiation and mediation at this program for the past five years. He is a graduate of the Tulane Law School and the Harvard Negotiation Program. |
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Daniel Q. Posin, J.D. (Yale), |
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Matthias
R. Prause, LL.M. (Harvard) |
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Sharon Press, J.D. (George Washington) Professor Sharon Press ist the director of the Dispute Resolution Institute of Hamline University. She served as director of the Florida Dispute Resolution Center for 18 years and has been an adjunct professor, teaching mediation theory and general ADR survey courses at Florida State University College of Law, Hamline University School of Law, Capital University Law School and the University of Nevada Las Vegas Law School. She received the Mary Parker Follett Award for Excellence and Innovation in Dispute Resolution presented by the Association for Conflict Resolution and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution's Special Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field and Future of Dispute Resolution. She is a Florida Supreme Court certified county and family mediator and also has mediated in a number of community mediation centers in Florida and New York. She is the co-author of the ADR textbook: “Mediation Theory and Practice”. She serves on the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's Legal Education Committee and served on the committee that re-drafted the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (2005) which have been adopted by the American Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association and the Association for Conflict Resolution. She has worked with numerous states throughout the U.S. contemplating the use of court-connected mediation. Internationally, she has done work in Haiti, Argentina, Uruguay, Hungary, Jordan, and the Caribbean. |
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Dr. Tom Christopher Pröstler, LL.M. (Sydney), |
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Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler, LL.M. (Chicago), |
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Timothy Ray, JD (Loyola, New Orleans), |
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Alan Scott Rau, LL.B. (Harvard), |
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Leonard L. Riskin J.D. (NYU); LL.M. (Yale), |
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Dr. Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts Rechtsanwalt, studied Law at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and Grenoble (France). Completing his doctoral thesis on damages under the CISG he worked as an assistant to Professor Dr. Günter Hager at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Freiburg (Germany). In addition, he completed an internship with the ICC in Paris and worked for the arbitration departments of Dr. Klaus Sachs (CMS Munich), Dr. Inka Hanefeld (FKH Hamburg) and Dr. Henning Bälz (Hengeler Mueller Berlin). Nils is a lecturer for international Arbitration and International Sales Law at the University of Freiburg and a member of the Young Arbitrator's Initiative of the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS40). |
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Karl-Michael Schmidt Rechtsanwalt, Director Institut für Anwaltsrecht der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Adjunct Professor College of Law and Justice Victoria University, Melbourne. He has taught various classes on negotiation, mediation and arbitration at Humboldt-University and other academic institutions for the past 17 years. He is co-director of the Berlin Program. His academic work at the "Institut für Anwaltsrecht", is focused especially on ADR in private law, mediation, comparative law, international sales and corporate law and international arbitration. |
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Dr. Mareike Schmidt, LL.M. (Tsinghua) Mareike studied law at the University of Würzburg, Humboldt-University of Berlin and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Before she took her position at the University of Hamburg, she worked at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Oliver Remien in Würzburg, the Institute of the Legal Profession in Berlin, the law firm of von Langsdorff, Schlegel und Weidenbach and the Chair of Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer in Basel, where she was in charge of coordinating the 3rd Edition of the Schlechtriem/Schwenzer Commentary on the CISG. |
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Prof. Dr. Ulrich G. Schroeter, |
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Dipl.-Psych. Hans-Jörg Schwarz, |
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Matthew Secomb, |
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Edward
Sherman, LL.B., S.J.D. (Harvard) Former Dean of the Tulane Law School. Nationally recognized expert in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Mediator for 14 years, co-author of casebook on Alternative Dispute Resolution widely used in American Law Schools, a treatise on ADR, and many articles. A chief drafter of the Texas ADR Act (1987) and the Louisiana Mediation Act (1997). . |
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Sid Stahl Sid Stahl
spent 33 years as a successful attorney with the Dallas
Law Firm of Geary, Stahl & Spencer, specializing in
litigation, corporate, real estate, banking and securities. |
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Gernot Tölle, LL.M. (Tulane) studied law at the University of Trier (Germany), University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy) and University of Potsdam (Germany). He holds an LL.M.-degree from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, LA, USA. He
is attorney-at-law admitted to the Berlin Bar and works as Legal Counsel
for Bombardier Transportation, Group Contracts and Legal Affairs in
Berlin. His main focus is ADR in corporate and business law. He tought
various negotiation and meditation classes at Humboldt University and
elsewhere. |
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Thomas M. Usdin, J.D. (Tulane), An owner of ADR, Inc., an alternative dispute resolution firm, with offices throughout the state of Louisiana, he has mediated over 500 cases covering a wide spectrum of legal specialties. He is an Adjunct Professor at Tulane Law School and has authored numerous articles and essays on mediation. |
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Dr. Philipp K. Wagner, LL.M. (Emory), is a German Attorney based in Berlin, and admitted to the New York
Bar. He specializes in dispute resolution with a focus on arbitration,
and has extensive experience in cross-border disputes and business transactions. Before Philipp opend his own firm he was a partner of a
full service law firm in Berlin. He conducted over 30 arbitrations as |
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Dr. Felix Wendenburg, is a mediator, co-director of the core practice and research field "business" at the Institute for Conflict Management and academic
vice director of the postgraduate master's program in mediation
(both at the European University Viadrina). After graduating from
Bucerius Law School in 2008, he worked as a research Associate
and doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative
and International Law in Hamburg and received his mediation
training at Bucerius Law School, the Lawyers' Chamber (Celle),
Boston College Law School, Fordham University School of Law
(New York) and the mediation program of the US District Court of
Northern California. Felix Wendenburg has authored several
publications on "interprofessionality" in mediation, the egal |
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Nancy Welsh, J.D. (Harvard), Professor of Law at Penn State, Dickinson School of Law, teaching Civil Procedure, Negotiation/Mediation and Conflict Resolution Theory. She is a leading scholar in the field of ADR focusing primarily on negotiation and court-connected and agency-connected mediation. She is the past executive director of Mediation Center and advised the Minnesota Supreme Court regarding the institutionalization of ADR in the state's courts. She is currently Chair of the ADR Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Governing Council of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. Before joining the faculty of Penn State, she practiced as corporate litigation lawyer. She mediates contract, employment and public policy matters; consults with courts on dispute resolution system design and evaluation; and trains attorneys and judges in mediation skills |
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Prof. Charlie Wilson, J.D. (New York University), is a professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He teaches Legal Negotiations & Settlement, Education Law, Labor Law, and Civil Procedure. He has taught negotiations, alternative dispute resolution, and conflict management to lawyers and judges in Barcelona, Spain; Sapporo, Japan; Oxford, England; and Beijing, China. Prior to joining the OSU law faculty in 1981, he was a labor lawyer in New York. He has taught negotiations as a visiting professor at Loyola and Brooklyn law schools. He frequently serves as a negotiations consultant and has been involved in the negotiation of more than 200 collective bargaining agreements. He was recently named a Top Lawyer in the April edition of Columubus CEO and was recently presented with the Outstanding Citizen Award by the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association for his service to the people of Ohio. |
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Prof. Dr. Joachim Zekoll, LL.M. (Berkeley), A. D. Freeman Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law, professor for civil law, civil procedure and comparative law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Specialist in the areas of international civil litigation and comparative law. Has published extensively in both fields |
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Prof. Bruno Zeller, PhD (Univ.of Melbourne), Professor of Transnational Commercial Law at the University of
Western Australia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch
University, Perth, a Fellow of the Australian Institute for
Commercial Arbitration, Panel of Arbitrators – MLAANZ, Visiting
Professor Institut fur Anwaltsrecht, Humboldt University, Berlin and |
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