Jean Sternlight, Professor Sternlight, who joined the Boyd faculty in 2003 as the Director of the Saltman Center, is one of the nation's leading experts on alternative dispute resolution. Co-author of books on mediation, arbitration, and dispute resolution generally, Professor Sternlight has also published numerous articles in law reviews in the field of conflict resolution. She is particularly well known for her work critiquing companies for mandating that consumers and employees resolve claims against the company using binding arbitration. Sternlight is regularly invited to give talks on dispute resolution to groups of both academics and practitioners, and is also frequently quoted by both courts and the popular press. Before her arrival at Boyd, Professor Sternlight taught first at Florida State University College of Law and then at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, as well as an experienced litigator.

Ray Patterson, Associate Director of the Saltman Center, came to Boyd from New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board, where he was the Director of Communications and Dispute Resolution. Professor Patterson ran the CCRB's mediation program, the largest in the nation involving civilian complaints against the police. He is a trained mediator and has mediated hundreds of cases, many of them while he mentored law students in a mediation clinic at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Professor Patterson teaches mediation. He set up and supervises UNLV's Parking Citation Arbitration Hearings, utilizing law students trained as arbitrators to hear appeals of university parking tickets.

Peter Reilly, Director of Training for the Saltman Center, came to Boyd from Washburn School of Law, where he was Associate Professor of Law teaching Negotiations, ADR Seminar, and Contracts. Before that, Professor Reilly spent three years as a Hewlett Fellow in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem-Solving, as well as Adjunct Law Professor, at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to entering academia, Professor Reilly worked for seven years as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of General Counsel of the United States Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D.) and Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M.), Professor Reilly has developed custom Negotiation trainings for a wide variety of corporate, government, and non-profit organizations.

The Advisory Board helps to publicize the work of the Center on a national and international scale and provides valuable advice and assistance in the Center’s fundraising and outreach efforts.