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Fireside Chat: When Bankruptcy Meets Mediation, Heyman Center On Corporate Governance, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution

2026–2027 Flyers

What happens when billions of dollars, thousands of stakeholders, and a company’s future are at risk?

Join us to explore the role mediation can play when the stakes are enormous, the parties are numerous, and the path to resolution is anything but straightforward.

The Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution Presents: Before You Sign, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Gretchen Carlson, Julie Roginsky

2026 Event Invitations

Join Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky, co-founders of Lift Our Voices, for a lunchtime discussion on workplace fairness and the hidden impact of nondisclosure agreements and forced arbitration clauses.

The event includes launch of the Lift Our Voices LOV Where You Work AI Tool, an innovative platform that empowers employees to understand what they’re signing before it’s too late. By translating dense legal language in NDAs and forced arbitration clauses into plain English, the tool brings hidden terms to the forefront.

Bring your own employment contract to the event and put the tool to the test.

The Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution Invites You To: The Dispute Resolution Educators Colloquium, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

2026 Event Invitations

This event brings dispute resolution educators—faculty, adjuncts, clinicians, and trainers—together for a day of community, learning, conversation, creativity, and mutual support. The program will feature demonstrations of innovative teaching methods, conversations around hot educational topics, the annual Dispute Resolution Teachers Resource Share, and more.

The International Advocate For Peace Award Ceremony And Reception, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Cardozo Journal Of Conflict Resolution, George E. Moore

2026 Event Invitations

April 16: 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution will honor Ambassador George Moose, as the 25th recipient of the International Advocate for Peace Award. Ambassador Moose has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Benin and to the Republic of Senegal eventually ascending to the role of Assistant Secretary of African Affairs and U.S. Permanent Representative to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva. Between 2007- 2025 Ambassador Moose held leadership positions at the United States Institute of Peace, ultimately leading the organization as CEO.

April 17: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. …

Pizza And Planning Learn About The Adr Certificate, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution

2026 Event Invitations

Are you interested in earning a Certificate in Dispute Resolution? Join us for lunch to learn more and plan your path.

Students will have the opportunity to:

• Learn about ADR courses

• Ask questions about the Certificate requirements

• Get guidance on planning their coursework

• Connect with faculty and other students interested in dispute resolution

Mediateart Training, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Cardozo Fame Center, Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts

2026 Event Invitations

VLA's MediateArt Training Program is a two-day intensive workshop of basic mediation training for attorneys, artists, arts administrators, and other professionals with an interest or background in the arts.

Participants will learn effective mediation skills, particularly as they relate to art-related issues, through observing mock-mediations, engaging in mediation simulations, and receiving feedback from program faculty. The workshop will focus on "deal mediation" negotiation, facilitative leadership skills, and resolution of disputes without resorting to litigation.

Following completion of the program, participants will be eligible to take part as mediators in VLA's MediateArt Program as matters arise.

The Next Century Of Challenges For The Faa, Cardozo Journal Of Conflict Resolution (Cjcr)

2025–2026 Flyers

As the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) enters its second century, arbitration remains one of the most contested areas of modern dispute resolution. Praised for efficiency and accessibility, it is also challenged for issues of fairness, transparency, and equity. This year’s Melnick Symposium will explore how arbitration must evolve to meet the demands of justice in the decades ahead.

By addressing this theme, the Symposium seeks to imagine what the FAA’s next century should look like and how arbitration can become a more equitable, inclusive, and effective system of justice.

Navigating The Complex Landscape Of Surrogacy: What Mediators Need To Know, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Family And Divorce Mediation Council

2025 Event Invitations

Join legal experts Rebecca L. Mendel, Esq. and Denise E. Seidelman, Esq.—key drafters of New York’s Child Parent Security Act (CPSA)—for a thought-provoking CLE program examining how the CPSA revolutionized reproductive rights by legalizing compensated surrogacy. This session will delve into the law’s far-reaching impact on parental rights, ethical decision-making in assisted reproductive technology (ART), and the mediator’s role in navigating surrogacy agreements and related disputes.

Dismantling Hate: The Power Of Dialogue, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Tamara Meyer, Arno Michaelis, Daryl Davis

2025 Event Invitations

Join us for an inspiring conversation with three extraordinary individuals who have turned painful histories into catalysts for change:

• Tamara Meyer – daughter of German Jewish Holocaust survivors who now builds dialogue and healing across generational trauma
• Arno Michaelis – former leader in the White nationalist movement, who now works to prevent radicalization and promote compassion
• Daryl Davis – Black musician and racial justice advocate known for fostering friendships with members of the Ku Klux Klan, confronting hate with curiosity

Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution Presents The Documentary Screening Of Centered: Joe Lieberman, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution

2025–2026 Flyers

In an era where the pollical divide seems wider than ever, Lieberman's story is more urgent and relevant every day. The film explores this life a career in ways that challenge to think about the future of democracy and how we can find ways to work together. No matter our differences.

Documentary Screening Centered: Joe Lieberman, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Rachel Greenberg, Clarine Nardi Riddle, Matt Lieberman

2025 Event Invitations

Join us for a special screening of a documentary focusing on the life and career of the late Senator Joe Lieberman.

Centered brings to life the remarkable journey of Joe Lieberman, the late Senator who made history as the first Jewish Vice-Presidential candidate—and nearly changed the course of American politics. Ever a trailblazer, Lieberman was known for his humor, his independence, and for prioritizing what he believed to be right — sometimes earning the ire of his longtime colleagues. In an era where the political divide seems wider than ever, Lieberman’s story is more urgent and relevant every day. The …

Dispute Resolution: Why Ireland Works For International Business Law, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Hon. Loretta A. Preska, Hon Justice David Barniville, Sarah Murphy, Matthew York, Simone K. Lelchuk

2025 Event Invitations

As international commerce becomes increasingly complex, the choice of forum and governing law is more critical than ever. This distinguished panel will explore how Ireland’s legal system - confidential and cost-effective and can provide businesses with efficient dispute resolution without lengthy court processes - offers a compelling and reliable jurisdiction for international dispute resolution.

A Critical Juncture: The Convergence Of Natural Resource Management And Tribal Sovereignty, Anna Aleta Butterfield

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

This portfolio reflects the work I’ve done in my four years as a dual degree student, pursuing a Master of Science in Environmental Studies and a juris doctorate degree, and focuses on policies and laws surrounding natural resource management. It touches on how those policies relate to and expand or constrict the exercise of sovereignty by indigenous populations.

This piece first considers the effects of plastic on salmon populations and those indigenous groups that rely on salmon for subsistence and cultural purposes. The remaining three pieces focus on various aspects of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes - Montana Water …

Is Mediation A Sleeping Beauty, Cardozo Journal Of Conflict Resolution

2024–2025 Flyers

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Please Join Us At Cardozo School Of Law For A Weekend Of Kukin Program Events!, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution

2024 Event Invitations

• A Peace Gala in Honor of Professor Lela P. Love
• The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution Melnick Symposium
• The Cardozo Invitational Negotiation in Entertainment Arts and Media (CINEMA)

Join us for a dinner celebration in honor of Professor Love, Founding Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution. In 1985, she founded Cardozo's Mediation Clinic—one of the first clinical programs to train law students to serve as mediators. Love has served as mediator, arbitrator and dispute resolution consultant in community, employment, family, human rights, school-based and commercial cases. An active educator and participant in dispute resolution activities, she regularly conducts …

Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution Proudly Present: All Things Adr, Cardozo Adr Competition Honor Society, Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society, Cardozo Journal Of Conflict Resolution, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution

2022–2023 Flyers

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Discovery In A Global Economy, Maurice Stucke

Book Chapters

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The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study, Second Edition. Volume Three. Special Obligations: Modification And Discharge Of Obligations, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

The third volume of Ernst Rabel's comparative treatise on the conflict of laws was originally published in 1950. With the continued support ofThe University of Michigan Law School and the cooperation of the Max-Planck-Institut für auslaändisches und internationals Privatrecht in Hamburg, this second edition of Volume III has been prepared. Plans for the revision of Volumes I and II were made before the death of the author on September 7, 1955, and the work was carried to completion by Dr. Ulrich Drobnig of the staff of the Institut in Hamburg. We were fortunate in obtaining the services of another well-qualified …

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study, Second Edition. Volume Two. Foreign Corporations: Torts: Contracts In General, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

The second volume of Ernst Rabel's comparative treatise on the conflict of laws was originally published in 1947. This new edition completes the plan to revise the first two volumes, as arranged with the approval of the author before his death on September 7, 1955. Pursuant to this plan, the present edition has been made possible through the continued support of the work by the University of Michigan Law School and the generous cooperation of the Max Planck-Institut für aüslindisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg, in making available the competent services of a member of the staff of the Institut, …

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume Four Property: Bills And Notes: Inheritance: Trusts: Application Of Foreign Law: Lntertemporal Relations, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

With this fourth and final volume, the monumental survey of existing systems of conflicts law, initiated by the late Ernst Rabel in 1939 under the auspices of the American Law Institute but conducted after 1942 through the generous sponsorship of the University of Michigan Law School, is completed. It is most fortunate that, despite the fact that the present volume was prepared in various institutions during the years immediately preceding the author's death on September 7, 1955, he not only finished but also revised the proofs of the text; the various tables were later compiled at Ann Arbor.

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study, Second Edition. Volume One. Introduction: Family Law, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

This volume, the first in Ernst Rabel's monumental comparative treatise on the conflict of laws, was initially published in 1945. Since then three additional volumes have been added, completing the survey of the systems of conflicts law as originally contemplated. Meanwhile, the first edition of the first two volumes has been exhausted for some time, and the literature of conflicts law has substantially increased, reflecting the new developments that have taken place since 1945. Accordingly, plans for a new edition of the first two volumes were discussed with the author before his death on September 7, I955, and were approved …

Lectures On The Conflict Of Laws And International Contracts, University Of Michigan Law School

Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law

The lectures contained in this volume were delivered at Ann Arbor in the course of the sessions of the Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law under the auspices of the University of Michigan Law School, August 5 to 21, 1949. As a part of the institute program that has been inaugurated with the encouraging support not merely of the Faculty of the Law School but also of many interested members of the bar - a program designed to supplement the ordinary course of legal studies through the exploration of "frontiers of the law" in lectures and discussions delivered or …

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume Three. Special Obligations: Modification And Discharge Of Obligations, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Among the multitude of conflicts principles that, according to various claims, should determine the law applicable to all contracts, only two have resisted the test of critical analysis. These, indeed, form an adequate groundwork. First, the freedom of parties to choose the law applicable to their contract must be recognized as a general rule without petty restraint. Second, in the absence of such agreement, a contract should be governed by the law most closely connected with its characteristic feature.

The first proposition is essential to the second. To deny party autonomy means rigid conflicts rules created by some superior authority. …

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume Two. Foreign Corporations: Torts: Contracts In General, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Full application of comparative methods to the law of conflicts requires a working plan of some magnitude. We ought to take stock of the conflicts rules existing in the different countries of the world, state their similarities or dissimilarities, and investigate their purposes and effects. The solutions thus ascertained should moreover be subjected to an estimation of their usefulness, by the standards appropriate to their natural objective. Conflicts rules have to place private life and business relations upon the legal background suitable to satisfactory intercourse among states and nations. They are valuable to the extent that their practical functioning, rather …

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume One. Introduction: Family Law, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Full application of comparative methods to the law of conflicts requires a working plan of some magnitude. We ought to take stock of the conflicts rules existing in the different countries of the world, state their similarities or dissimilarities, and investigate their purposes and effects. The solutions thus ascertained should moreover be subjected to an estimation of their usefulness, by the standards appropriate to their natural objective. Conflicts rules have to place private life and business relations upon the legal background suitable to satisfactory intercourse among states and nations. They are valuable to the extent that their practical functioning, rather …

Torts In The Conflict Of Laws, Moffatt Hancock

Michigan Legal Studies Series

There has been in recent years a marked development of interest in the diversities of laws and their attendant conflicts. While modern facilities of communication accelerate the spread of culture and thus augment the need of uniformity in the laws affecting commerce, they also reveal the significance of local needs, customs, and legal institutions. Indeed, it would seem that multiplication of jurisdictions and progressive diversification of laws in both space and subject matter is an unavoidable concomitant of increasing specialization in the international, interstate, or local economy. If these circumstances serve to justify the perennial effort to simplify the law, …

Selected Cases On The Law Of Negotiable Instruments, Robert E. Bunker

Books

The cases appearing in this volume have been selected primarily for the use of students pursuing the study of Negotiable Instruments and particularly for students in the Law Department of the University of Michigan. They are arranged in order to conform to the plan of instruction now pursued in that Department. The plan to which reference is made is sufficiently indicated by the Table of Contents infra. In brief, it involves a study of the law of Negotiable Instruments on the basis of the contract of the several parties as that law has been declared by the courts and, …

Elements Of The Law Of Negotiable Contracts, Elias Finley Johnson

Books

“The cases here collected and annotated, have been selected by the undersigned, primarily for the use of students in his classes. To make a wise selection of cases from the large number that are to be found upon a particular subject is a most difficult task … It has been attempted here to select, as far as possible, the very earliest cases upon the particular subject, so that the student would thereby be able to get at the reason of the rule without reference to any statutory provisions. Attention is called to the latest cases, however, in the foot notes.” …