The Center has been created to enhance professional
education for sophisticated practice in negotiation and problem solving,
including the many alternative ways and means of resolving disputes.
The Center's seminars, forums, workshops and courses draw upon work
from a variety of disciplines, including law, behavioral science, and
decision-science. All of the Center's offerings reflect a commitment
to enhancing participants skills, judgment and strategic choices in
addition to providing substantive information. Students and professionals
enrolled in a course or workshop offered by the Center will learn to
expand their analytical perspectives and to practice different techniques
for effective negotiation and problem solving.
What the Center Offers Practitioners
and Students
For Practitioners: We
are a resource for people who negotiate and seek to solve problems
on behalf of their clients, businesses, organizations or themselves.
The Center will also contribute to the greater Cincinnati legal community
practice in negotiation and dispute resolution, by sponsoring lecture
and discussion forums, interactive workshop programs, and creating
opportunities for practitioners and students to learn together.
For Practitioners
Center Offerings Include:
- Intensive Workshops in Negotiation to optimize results in transactional contexts and in
resolving disputes;
- Advanced negotiation insights for resolution of disputes and problems;
- Mediation skills and strategy from the neutral's perspective;
- Mediation advocacy, from the client and lawyer's perspective; and
- Workshops will be structured with an appreciation for practitioners
busy schedules with individual feedback on skills and techniques
offered in some programs.
- Periodic Seminars & Lectures including
current legal updates in dispute resolution, dispute systems design,
and selected topics in negotiation and decision-making.
- The Dispute Resolution
Forum - a series
of opportunities to exchange practice experience and build professional
alliances between practitioners in negotiation and decision-making.
(To be launched in 2002.)
- Professional Enhancement Through Assistance
- Participating as judges and coaches for student entries in national
negotiation and mediation advocacy competitions; and
- Providing opportunities for student externs and interns to assist
in negotiation and dispute resolution.
For Students: We
enable law students to learn skills and theory for sophisticated practice
in negotiation, mediation and other dispute resolution processes, through
coursework, practice placements, research, and participation in national
competitions in negotiation and mediation. The Center encourages an
interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and problem solving, incorporating
the study of psychology, economics, decision-making, and risk analysis.
Working with the law faculty, the Center will create upper level course
sequences integrating negotiation, dispute resolution, legal writing,
and advocacy skills into the study of substantive legal topics. Courses
and other Center activities may be open to cross registrants from other
University of Cincinnati graduate schools.
For Students Center Offerings Include:
- Course offerings in Negotiation, Arbitration,
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation and Advanced Negotiation.
- Semester-long externships in negotiation,
dispute resolution, and problem-solving.
- Participation in national competitions in
negotiation and mediation advocacy, sponsored by the American Bar Association,
judged by practicing attorneys.
- The Dispute Resolution
Forum - a regular
discussion series for learning and exchange among practitioners in
negotiation and dispute resolution from law, business and other professions.
- Center workshop participation - participate
in negotiation and mediation workshops with lawyers, business people,
and other professionals.
- Independent projects in negotiation,
problem-solving and dispute resolution, including creation of case
simulations, video and other teaching materials.