Changing Minds
Professor James Stark will present "Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion" at the Mid-Atlantic Clinical Teachers Workshop on February 26.
Professor Stark is a Professor of Law and director of the Mediation Clinic. Professor Stark has been a clinical law teacher for 35 years, first at the Washington College of Law, American University and since 1979 at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He supervised students in a wide variety of representational matters, including prison legal services, special education and housing, and employment discrimination cases, before launching the Mediation Clinic in 1994. He also teaches Negotiation, Evidence and Torts. He has published widely, including Preliminary Reflections on the Establishment of a Mediation Clinic, 2 Clinical L. Rev. 457 (1996), selected for inclusion in Hurder, et. al, Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics (1997). Most recently, he is the co-author, with Doug Frenkel, of The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (Aspen Law and Business 2008).
Recent Homepage Highlights
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On February 15, Professor Dalié Jiménez will present "Exploring the Emergence of Finance Companies" at the Bankruptcy Success Modeling Conference at the UCLA School of Law.
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On February 9, Professor Hillary Greene will present 'The Role of the Competition Community in Promoting Innovation" at an international conference at Nagoya University entitled International Issues Relating to a Pro-Innovation Patent System and Competition Policy.
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Members of the Law School community are invited to a Lunar New Year Celebration on Wednesday, February 13. RSVP is required.
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On February 11, Professor Alexandra Lahav will be a featured speaker at "The New Class Action Landscape," a continuing legal education course being offered by the Boston Bar Association.
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The Law School will return to normal operations on Tuesday, February 12. Classes will resume as scheduled.
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On February 9, Richard Wilson will deliver a keynote address at a conference on "Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights: Framing the Field" at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.
