October 2, 2009 Getting Better Results for Clients Using a Planne Negotiation Process - Professor John Lande, Director of the LL.M. Program in Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law, spoke about how lawyers can get better results for their clients by using negotiation agreements. He explained how planned negotiations differ from typical ad hoc negotiations and listed advantages of planned negotiations for clients and lawyers. He described possible features in written negotiation agreements such as provisions regarding phased exchange of information, use of joint experts, and use of third-party neutrals. This includes Collaborative Law, which is a particular form of planned negotiation. A planned negotiation process is not appropriate for all cases, but when appropriate, it can produce great results. The CLE material included a sample agreement form and other practical documents. View Webcast Back to Top
May 26, 2009 Superpowers and Rogue States: Reducing the Nuclear Danger was the topic of the Peace in the Desert lecture presented by Robert Litwak, director of international security studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and by Stephen M. Younger, president of National Security Technologies, LLC, and senior policy scholar at the Wilson Center. The event was a collaboration of the Wilson Center and the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV. View Webcast Back to Top
March 27, 2009 Leonard Riskin, Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law at University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, spoke at the Annual Saltman Lecture about "Awareness and Ethics in Dispute Resolution and Law." He explored how mindfulness, an ancient method of paying attention in the present moment and without judgment, can be combined with a focus on core emotional concerns in negotiation, to foster more ethical negotiation behavior. Back to Top
"Working It Out"--A MINT video - Mediation In Nevada Today (MINT) is a Boyd community service program that allows law students to conceive and develop their own projects to educate Las Vegans about mediation. This video, “Working It Out,” was produced by the Fall 2008 MINT students and demonstrates what a typical community mediation at the Clark County Neighborhood Justice Center looks like. Back to Top
October 27, 2008 Streetball Hafla, a project developed and supported by Michael and Sonja Saltman, puts Jewish and Arab teenagers on the same basketball team and has them compete against other similar teams in a tournament. This trailer is from a forthcoming film about the Saltmans’ attempt to bridge the gap of fear and hatred between Israeli youth through sport. View Webcast Back to Top
October 22, 2008 Nancy Welsh, Professor of Law at
Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law, gave a talk on "How Much (Im)Partiality Can We Afford in Dispute Resolution Processes?" View Webcast Back to Top
October 4, 2008 The Mediators of Southern Nevada, along with the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution, held a judicial forum to introduce candidates running for family and civil/criminal court seats. Please click here to view the forum. Unfortunately, an equipment failure caused us to lose the last third of the Civil/Criminal Court candidates. View Webcast Back to Top
October 3, 2008 Susan Sturm,
George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at
Columbia University School of Law gave a talk on "Negotiating Workplace Equality: A Systemic Approach?" View Webcast Back to Top
September 11, 2008 Daniel Schorr, Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio lectured on "Forgive Us Our Press Passes" as part of the Peace in the Desert™ lecture series.
Daniel Schorr's career has included a stint with Edward R. Murrow’s legendary CBS reporting team and a famous confrontation with President Richard Nixon. In his talk he will deal with the role of the media in conflict and conflict resolution. View Webcast Back to Top
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
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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.
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