April 9, 2008 David Spencer, Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) and Senior Lecturer Division of Law, MacquarieUniversity spoke on "The Lack of Enforceability of Dispute Resolution Clause in Contracts.” View Webcast Back to Top

April 3, 2008 Laverne Berry, President, New York Women in Film and Television, spoke on Mediation and the Entertainment Industry. Ms. Berry is an entertainment and media business affairs attorney, a mediator, and an arbitrator. She represents on-air talent, independent producers, television and film production companies, and cable networks. She has been a Director of Legal and Business Affairs for A&E Television Networks and an executive at Thirteen/WNET, New York's premier public television station, RKO General Television, and Avon Books. For her own media work she has received two Cine Golden Eagle Awards, two Emmy nominations, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. View Webcast Back to Top

March 25, 2008 Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law, spoke on “Mass Atrocity and Traditional Dispute Resolution: The Rwandan and Ugandan Experiences.” Drumbl recently published a book entitled “Atrocities, Punishment and International Law,” which takes issue with the idea that traditional litigation techniquesare the best means to deal with perpetrators of massatrocities. View Webcast Back to Top

March 24, 2008 Haleh Esfandiari, the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a well-known Middle Eastern scholar and Iran specialist spoke on "Iran-U.S. Relations: A View from Prison." Before joining the Wilson Center in 1998, she taught at Princeton University. She is the author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Her essays have appeared in numerous books and scholarly journals and her articles have appeared in The Washington Post and The New Republic. She was detained in Iran in 2007 for eight months, spending over three months in solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Prominent individuals, newspapers, and people worldwide protested her imprisonment. She was released in August last year and was able to return to her family and her work. View Webcast Back to Top

February 08, 2008 John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame, spoke as part of the PEACE IN THE DESERT™ lecture series on “The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace,” the title of his latest book. Widely known for his pioneering work on conflict transformation, Lederach is involved in conciliation work in Colombia, the Philippines, Nepal and Tajikistan, plus countries in East and West Africa. He has helped design and conduct training programs in 25 countries across five continents. View Webcast Back to Top

February 4, 2008 Laura Nader, Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, spoke on Confict Resolution and the Anti-Law Movement: A Global Effort?. Professor Nader's current work focuses on how central dogmas are made and how they work in law, energy science, and anthropology. Nader’s areas of interest include comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, comparative family organization, the anthropology of professional mindsets and ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America and the contemporary United States. She was involved in conferences in the 1960's, determining the direction the study of law in society as a part of society and not insulated and isolated from other human institutions, should take as it developed. Nader edited and published essays from these conferences as well as authoring several books on the anthropology of law, establishing herself as an influential figure in the development of the field. She is the author of Harmony, Ideology--Injustice and Control in a Mountain Zapotec Village and The Life of the Law--Anthropological Projects. In 1995 the Law and Society Association awarded her the Kalven Prize for distinguished research on law and society.
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December 6, 2007 Dennis Ross spoke as part of the PEACE IN THE DESERT™ lecture series. Ross, former director of policy planning for President George H.W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, is a skilled diplomat who was intimately involved in the search for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. He has recently published a book called “Statecraft: And How to Restore America’s Standing in the World,” and is also the author of “The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.”
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September 21, 2007 Scott R. Peppet, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School, spoke on “The Ethics of Collaborative Law.” Professor Peppet specializes in legal ethics and in alternative dispute resolution and negotiation. He is the co-author of both an award winning book on legal bargaining, Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes, and a leading textbook, Processes in Dispute Resolution. Collaborative law has been developed and led by groups of lawyers who are discontented with the adversarial practice of law. Attorneys practicing collaborative law agree, for example, not to mislead each other during the course of their negotiation and not to represent their clients if the case eventually goes to trial. Their goal is to facilitate a fair and reasonable settlement of the issues between their clients. The practice of collaborative law has not been without controversy; in February 2007 the Colorado Bar Association’s ethics committee declared it unethical per se, which puts Professor Peppet’s talk on the cutting edge in this newborn field of lawyering. View Webcast Back to Top

April 4, 2007 Saltman Center Jean Sternlight gave the annual Ohio State University Moritz School of Law Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Dispute. The talk was entitled "Good Lawyers Should Be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients," Sternlight and co-author Professor Jennifer Robbennolt, of the University of Illinois College of Law, will also publish an article with the same title in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution.
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January 26, 2007 Symposium: "Should the Federal Arbitration Act Be Revised, and If So, How?" Eighteen of the country's leading arbitration scholars took positions on this issue and made their case. Their presentations are part of a special issue of the Nevada Law Journal. Attorneys admitted in Nevada earned 6.5 CLE credits.
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September 15, 2006 Professor Jennifer Brown, Quinnipiac Law School, spoke on "The Promise and Paradox of Restorative Discipline." The concept of 'restorative discipline' merges restorative justice theory with attempts to reform attorney disciplinary processes. Restorative discipline would give more attention than our current system does to the interests and needs of clients who have been harmed by attorney misconduct. Such reforms might be able to bring misbehaving lawyers back into the fold, and even help restore the public's faith in lawyers and the legal profession more generally. View Webcast Back to Top

March 9, 2006 - Professor Chris Guthrie - Professor Guthrie, gave the third annual Saltman Lecture, speaking about "Misjudging: Why Disputants Are Better Off in Consensual Processes than in Litigation". His comments, and commentators' responses, are to be published in the Nevada Law Journal's Winter 2006/2007 issue. Professor Guthrie is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. View Webcast Back to Top

**April 12, 2005 KNPR radio show discussing conflict resolution in Nevada, with comments from Boyd Law School Dean Richard Morgan, Family Mediation Center Director LaDeana Gamble, Paul Richitt Esq. Clark County Neighborhood Justice Center Director Leah Stromberg, & William Turner Esq. Click here to listen to or download the interview. Back to Top

**April 6, 2005 Saltman Center Founder Michael Saltman on KNPR radio discussing the Center, his background, and real estate projects to improve UNLV's surroundings. Click here to listen to or download the interview. Back to Top

**These interviews appear courtesy of KNPR 88.9 and the State of Nevada with Gwen Castaldi program.