Conference on DEI and Dispute Resolution @ UC Law SF

As part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations, the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law SF will be holding a conference entitled, DEI and Dispute Resolution: Reimagining the Field, on November 3, 2023 starting at 9:00 a.m. PT. The conference will take place in a hybrid in-person and Zoom format, and there is no charge to register. Five hours of California MCLE (Elimination of Bias) available for in-person participants only.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is becoming increasingly important in all domains of the law, but especially so in dispute resolution. Implicit biases can creep into everyday negotiation and influence the way that many disputes are settled informally, before they even reach the courthouse steps. The lack of diversity among neutrals and counsel in consumer, commercial, and investor-state arbitration impacts the legitimacy of those processes and may affect outcomes in ways that are not yet fully understood.

This conference is one of the first of its kind devoted to taking a hard look at the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the dispute resolution field and to charting a path for future research and policy interventions. It brings together a star-studded cast of scholars from across the U.S. and abroad, including several Indisputably contributors:

Hiro Aragaki, UC Law SF
Ian Ayres, Yale Law School
Jo Carillo, UC Law SF
Sarah Cole, Ohio State University (Moritz)
Clark Freshman, UC Law SF
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, UC Irvine Law
Emlia Onyema, SOAS University of London
Catherine Rogers, Bocconi (Milan) and UC Law SF
Andrea Schneider, Cardozo Law
Jean Sternlight, UNLV (Boyd)
Ellen Waldman, Int’l Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR)

For more information, please click here. For those who are already in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join us for a reception on November 2 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. to celebrate CNDR’s turning 20!

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