Law and ILR Schools launch joint ADR program
October 3 2006
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Cornell’s Law School and School of Industrial and Labor Relations launch a joint program focusing on alternative dispute resolution.
ITHACA, N.Y. Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and the Cornell Law School have launched a joint initiative called "The Program on Conflict Resolution." This program will feature a wide range of activities, including innovative research, education and training, all aimed at raising the standards of arbitration, mediation and other methods of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
The new initiative represents an expansion of the ground-breaking work currently underway within ILR's Institute on Conflict Resolution and leverages the strong knowledge base of both the Law School and ILR. Additionally, its outreach component further supports Cornell's land grant mission, which charges the university with sharing its intellectual and physical resources in relevant ways throughout the state and nation.
"With the addition of the Cornell Law School, we are extremely excited to be able to expand our current focus from exclusively workplace-oriented projects and research to now include non-work related issues, including the potential for ADR to resolve both domestic and international conflicts," said Harry Katz, dean of Cornell's ILR School.
Stewart Schwab, dean of the Cornell Law School, added: "Our school's faculty includes experts in international arbitration and the use of ADR in a variety of domestic contexts. This new partnership provides us with an existing programmatic structure to more readily engage our faculty and students in pursuing conflict resolution projects and research."
In addition to its current research projects, the Cornell program will offer its Certificate Program in Workplace ADR, the nation's most comprehensive program for the study of employment mediation, arbitration, conflict systems design and other related topics. In fall 2007, a counterpart certificate program will be offered in commercial and international ADR.
For more information about this initiative, contact the program’s Director of ADR Services Rocco M. Scanza at (607) 255-1124, rms43@cornell.edu or download the brochure (pdf). For more information on the Institute on Conflict Resolution, visit: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/icr.
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