Faculty 2012

About fifteen outstanding faculty members from the U.S., Australia, Germany and other European countries will teaching the courses and give lectures in the afternoons or evenings on arbitration and other ADR topics at the 14th International Summer School on Dispute Resolution 2012.

Past Faculty

The past programs e.g. have been taught inter alia by the following professors:

Chris G. Abele, LL.M. (Brussels),

started his carreer as a banker and then studied business law, international relations and philosophy. After positions held in consulting firms and the federal administration he works for the last two years as business consultant for international media and art projects. He is working on integration and conflict management cases and as executive producer. As mediator he is practicing at the Berlin Institute of Mediation. In addition, Abele holds on the office as peace judge.

Prof. Dr. Nadja Alexander

Director of ADR and Practice at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Prof. Alexander has extensive experience as a mediation practitioner, researcher, trainer and educational consultant in Australia, Europe, the United States and most recently, the Asia/Pacific region. She is the editor of the book series Global Trends in Mediation and editor for international mediation for the World Arbitration and Mediation Report. Prof. Alexander has authored many books and articles on negotiation and mediation.
Well known for her innovation, energy and creativity in teaching and training, Prof. Alexander has won awards for curriculum design and teaching innovation including the inaugural Australian national award for university teaching in law (1997).
In 2006 Prof. Alexander was granted a Humboldt Research Fellowship to focus on international and comparative mediation.

Prof. Adam Babich, J.D. (Yale)

is a associate Professor of Law at Tulane Law School. He teaches environmental law and directs the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic. Before joining the Tulane faculty, he was a Chicago-based litigator whose practice emphasized environmental and insurance-related disputes. He has also served as an environmental enforcement lawyer for the Colorado Attorney General, as adjunct attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, as editor-in-chief of the Environmental Law Reporter, and as a judicial law clerk for the Colorado Supreme Court. He has taught at Georgetown University Law Center, American University, and the University of Denver and has an extensive publications record.

Paul Barron, (University of Pennsylvania)

is The Class of 1937 Professor of Law at Tulane University.  He teaches Negotiation & Mediation Advocacy and commercial law.  He had been an active arbitrator and mediator for many years, serving on the labor and commercial panels of the American Arbitration Association and the labor panel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.  Professor Barron is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

Gary B. Born, J.D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania),

attorney at law, partner in the law firm "WilmerHale". He is universally regarded as one of the world's preeminent authorities on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. He heads the firm's international arbitration practice and has been ranked for the past decade as one of the world's leading arbitration practitioners. Author of "International Civil Litigation in United States Courts" and "International Commercial Arbitration in the United States", two standard treatises.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidenbach,

University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, habilitated about Mediation. Honorary professor at the University Vienna, Visiting fellow, Center for European Law, King´s College London. He is one of the best known scholars in Germany in the field of ADR, author of some essential books like: "Mediation", Köln 1995, and together with M. Henssler: "Mediation für Juristen", Köln, 1997

Dr. Dörte Busch, LL.M. (Wales)

Rechtsanwältin, working at the Institut für Anwaltsrecht.

She is specializing in ADR in private law and medical malpractice law.

Claudia Conrad, LL.M. (Exeter)

Rechtsanwältin / Mediator, studied public finances in Berlin and law in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. She is a trained Mediator teaching Mediation classes at Humboldt-University.

Prof. Dr. Horst Eidenmüller, LL.M. (Cambridge)

is one of the internationally leading scholars on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at Munich University where he holds a Chair for Corporate Law and Corporate Bankruptcy. He is the founding director of the Center for Negotiation and Mediation (CVM) at that University and former scholar of the Project on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Eidenmüller has an extensive mediation and arbitration experience and publishes extensively on these issues. Both academically and practically, he is recognized as one of the leading voices in the field.

Arno Eisen

studied law at Humboldt University and University of Erlangen. His main field of interest is International Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Tax Law and International Commercial Arbitration. He is writing his Ph.D. thesis at Humboldt University and working as research assistant at the Institut für Anwaltsrecht.

Prof. Dr. Siegfried Elsing, LL.M. (Yale)

has been working as a lawyer in Cologne, New York and Düsseldorf. He has been involved in numerous arbitrations, both as a counsel and as an arbitrator. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Düsseldorf.

Alexander Foerster, M.C.L (Stockholm)

Rechtsanwalt and Swedish Advokat. Partner of Mannheimer Swartling (Frankfurt Office). He has been working in the field of International Arbitration and Litigation for many years in particular with German and Swedish clients.

Philip J. Harter, J.D. (Michigan)

Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Specialized in the use of dispute resolution by government agencies. Director of the Program on Consensus, Democracy and Governance at the Vermont Law School.
He has mediated many complex matters involving public policy and was a principal draftsman of the Negotiated Rulemaking Act and of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act as well as official observer for the Section of Administrative Law to the Uniform Mediation Act. Served as Chair of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Associationa certified mediator.

Christian Hartwig

works free-lance as mediator and instructor for mediation. For both he is certified according to the standards of ,Bundesverband Mediation' the umbrella organization for mediation in Germany (BM).
He studied law at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, ÈLTE Budapest and Humboldt University Berlin. He serves as a mediator in community, family and commercial disputes in Germany and visited the Dispute Resolution Center of Victoria, Australia and different mediation centers in the US.
He conducts various conflict resolution programs nationally and mediation training programs for children, students and adults on a regular basis. Thereby he focuses on the neutral and empathic role of the mediator with mindfulness approaches. Additionally he lectures at Humboldt University Berlin and the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
He is also active for the organizational development of the BM and works as the representative of this organization in the German
state of Saxony-Anhalt on a voluntary basis.

Julie H. Jackson, JD (Harvard)

Assistant dean for public interest programs and adjunct professor of law at Tulane teaching mediation and serving as a mediator in employment discrimination cases. Before joining Tulane’s faculty she practiced labor and employment law. Dean Jackson has estab-lished and oversees the Community Service Program of Tulane Law School, the first mandatory pro bono program at an American law school and coordinated the New Orleans EEOC Pilot Mediation Program.

Christopher Kee

LL.B B.A.(Hons)(Deakin), Grad Dip Laws (UQ), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Victoria, New South Wales and the High Court of Australia, Senior Research Assistant Universität Basel, Lecturer Deakin University, Executive Committee Member - Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA), Member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) Rules Drafting Committee, published extensively within the field of international commercial arbitration.

Kimberlee K. Kovach, J.D. (Capital University); BS (Ohio State),

Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. She is director of the mediation clinic at the University of Texas School of Law.
She is a past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, and has also chaired state and local bar association ADR Committees and Sections, as well as various
dispute resolution organizations.
She is the author of a text book for law school use, Mediation: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, published in 2000 and has also written several articles on ADR topics.

Lela Porter Love, J.D. (Georgetown),

Professor of Law and director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (NYC) and the Cardozo's Mediation Clinic. Specializes in community, employment, family, human rights, school-based and commercial cases. Serves on the Council of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section and the NYS Unified Court System Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee. Served as a trainer and consultant to established trainee programs for mediation in several states of the USA.

Forrest “Woody” Mosten

has been in private mediation practice since 1979. He is an experienced master mediation trainer. He teaches mediation as a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law and within the Dispute Resolution Program at Pepperdine School of Law. He published extensively on mediation. In addition to his work as a neutral, Mr. Mosten maintains an active practice as a family lawyer. He practices with a collaborative and problem solving model and has trained Collaborative Lawyers throughout the world and serves as a negotiation and mediation consultant for other family litigators. For his achievements he received numerous awards. For further information click here…

Prof. Dr. Andreas Nelle, M.P.A. (Harvard)

Rechtsanwalt and partner at the Berlin office of the law firm Hogan Hartson. Professor at the Humboldt-University law faculty. He worked on the „Harvard Project on Negotiation”. Practicing mediator, member of the ADR Section of the German Bar Association. Published extensively in the field of ADR. Together with Prof. Eidenmüller, he has developed a training program on negotiation for students and practitioners.

Dr. Constantin Olbrisch

Rechtsanwalt and Partner at
Kanzlei für Verhandlung und Mediation.

He is a full time mediator and lecturer for Mediation and Negotiation at Rostock University specializing in business mediation.

Prof. Dr. Christoph G. Paulus, LL.M. (Berkeley),

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Main focus on civil procedure, international civil litigation, bankrupcy-law. Author of a standard text book on civil procedure.

David L. Patrón, BA (Princeton), JD (Stanford)

attorney at law, partner in the commercial litigation group in the New Orleans office of the law firm Phelps Dunbar LLP. Adjunct Faculty at Tulane Law School teaching ADR-Classes. Past Chairman of the Louisiana Bar Association’s Mediation Registry.

William R. Pitts, J.D. (Tulane)

Mr. Pitts has been a trial lawyer in New Orleans since 1969. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been an adjunct and visiting professor of law at the Tulane Law School and Ohio State University College of Law and has taught negotiation, mediation and ADR system design since 1983.

Mr. Pitts has been engaged in a private dispute resolution practice for the past 14 years and has mediated and arbitrated more than 1100 cases. He has taught intercultural negotiation and mediation at this program for the past five years.

He is a graduate of the Tulane Law School and the Harvard Negotiation Program.

Daniel Q. Posin, J.D. (Yale),

professor of Law at Tulane Law School. He teaches corporations, tax, business planning, and International Business Transactions. He is author of the “Hornbook on Federal Income Taxation” and “Corporate Tax Planning: Takeovers, leveraged Buyouts and Restructurings

Matthias R. Prause, LL.M. (Harvard)

received his law degree from Humboldt-University Berlin and is a graduate of Harvard Law School’s LL.M. program. He served as training director of the Harvard Negotiators at Harvard Law School, where he worked together with ADR Pioneer Professor Frank E.A. Sander on the development of the Mediation Receptivity Index (MRI). He is a trained mediator and worked within the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) as a court mediator at Quincy District Court in the Commenwealth of Massachusetts. He is currently researching and publishing on various aspects of ADR and teaches mediation and negotiation.

Tom Christopher Pröstler, LL.M. (Sydney),

Fellow at the chair of Prof. Dr. Christine Windbichler, LL.M. at Humboldt-University of Berlin. He studied law at Humboldt- University of Berlin, the Université de Genève, the Université de
Lausanne, the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney, where he did his LL.M. degree specializing in international arbitration, litigation and mediation. Currently he is finishing his doctorate with a focus on his second specialization, international and comparative collective labor law. He teaches courses in both of these areas.

Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler, LL.M. (Chicago),

Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Goettingen and the University of Chicago Law School (LL.M.). Since 1986, he has been a Rechtsanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof admitted to the bar of the German Federal Supreme Court (31 members only), where he is specializing on the representation of clients in cases related to the annulment or enforcement proceedings of arbitral awards. He also serves as a Lecturer on International Arbitration at the University of Cologne.
Mr. Raeschke-Kessler has an extensive Professional Experience as Arbitrator: Since 1985, he served in numerous international and
domestic arbitrations under the ICC, DIS, ad hoc and other arbitration regimes.
According to the ranking of the Euromoney Legal Media Group “The Best of the Best 2003”, Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler belongs to the 25 leading arbitrators worldwide (of which 3 are from Germany). Mr. Raeschke-Kessler is a Past Vice Chair of the IBA Committee on Arbitration (Committee D), a Past Member of the IBA working group on the IBA Rules of Evidence of 1999, a Board Member of the German Arbitration Institution (DIS), a Vice President of the German branch of the International Law Association (ILA), a Member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration, a Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Alan Scott Rau, LL.B. (Harvard),

Robert F. Windfohr & Anne Burnett Windfohr Professor of Law at the University of Texas, teaches and writes in the areas of contracts, alternative dispute resolution, copyright and unfair competition. He has been an active arbitrator for many years serving on the Commercial and International Panels of the American Arbitration Association. He is a co-author of a widely used casebook on Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has also published several other books and many articles in this field, e.g. “Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers”, “ADR and Arbitration: Statutes and Commentary".

Leonard L. Riskin J.D. (NYU); LL.M. (Yale),

Leedy Professor of Law and Director of The Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri. He is one of the most respected experts on ADR in the United States, having authored several books and articles in the area, directing one of the leading centers for the study of ADR in the U.S., and formerly serving as chair of the Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution for the American Association of Law Schools.

Dr. Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts

Rechtsanwalt, studied Law at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and Grenoble (France). Completing his doctoral thesis on damages under the CISG he worked as an assistant to Professor Dr. Günter Hager at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Freiburg (Germany). In addition, he completed an internship with the ICC in Paris and worked for the arbitration departments of Dr. Klaus Sachs (CMS Munich), Dr. Inka Hanefeld (FKH Hamburg) and Dr. Henning Bälz (Hengeler Mueller Berlin). Nils is a lecturer for international Arbitration and International Sales Law at the University of Freiburg and a member of the Young Arbitrator's Initiative of the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS40).

Karl-Michael Schmidt

Rechtsanwalt, lecturer at Humboldt-University teaching various classes on ADR. He is working at the „Institut für Anwaltsrecht”, focusing especially on ADR in private law, mediation and international arbitration.

Mareike Schmidt

studied law at Humboldt University and University of Würzburg. Her main field of interest is International Commercial Law and International Commercial Arbitration. She works as research assistant at the Institut für Anwaltsrecht

Dr. Ulrich G. Schroeter,

akademischer Rat at the University of Freiburg. He studied Law at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), and had been an assistant to Professor Dr. Dr. hc. mult. Schlechtriem in Freiburg. Before studying law he worked as a banker in Bremen. He holds the degree of Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur.) from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Before starting his Habilitation-Thesis at the Chair of Professor Merkt in Freiburg, he was a Rechtsanwalt admitted to the Berlin Bar and a Lecturer at the Institut für Anwaltsrecht at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Dr. Schroeter has published articles on international trade law, EU law, contract law and international commercial arbitration. He is a member of the Young Arbitrator's Initiative (DIS40) in the German Institution for Arbitration and of the Young International Arbitration Group of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).

Dipl.-Psych. Hans-Jörg Schwarz,

owner of an ADR firm active in all fields of mediation. Mediating in several cases in Austria and Germany, he is specialized in family and business mediation with a main focus on the succession in partnership within companies. He is a lecturer at various universities and has published extensively within the field of ADR.

Matthew Secomb,

Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris. Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Solicitor in England and Wales. Mr. Secomb is a Lecturer on International Commercial Arbitration at Queen’s University, Ontario, and has served as speaker at various conferences and guest lecturer at various universities. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, Deakin University (Australia) and the Hague Academy of Private International Law.

Edward Sherman, LL.B., S.J.D. (Harvard)

Former Dean of the Tulane Law School. Nationally recognized expert in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Mediator for 14 years, co-author of casebook on Alternative Dispute Resolution widely used in American Law Schools, a treatise on ADR, and many articles. A chief drafter of the Texas ADR Act (1987) and the Louisiana Mediation Act (1997).

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Sid Stahl

Sid Stahl spent 33 years as a successful attorney with the Dallas Law Firm of Geary, Stahl & Spencer, specializing in litigation, corporate, real estate, banking and securities.
In 1991, he established a solo practice in Mediation and Arbitration. In the past 17 years, he has mediated well over 1,600 civil cases with a settlement rate of 80%. Stahl has mediated nationwide in California, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico and New York, in addition to his busy practice in Texas.
Stahl serves as Adjunct Professor on the faculty of the Dedman School of Law at SMU, where he teaches dispute resolution. He has been a director of the Dallas Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas. He has served with distinction on the Dallas City Council, and as a board member of several agencies of the State of Texas.

Gernot Tölle, LL.M. (Tulane)

studied law at the University of Trier (Germany), University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy) and University of Potsdam (Germany). He holds an LL.M.-degree from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, LA, USA.

He is attorney-at-law admitted to the Berlin Bar and works as Legal Counsel for Bombardier Transportation, Group Contracts and Legal Affairs in Berlin. His main focus is ADR in corporate and business law. He tought various negotiation and meditation classes at Humboldt University and elsewhere.

Thomas M. Usdin, J.D. (Tulane),

An owner of ADR, Inc., an alternative dispute resolution firm, with offices throughout the state of Louisiana, he has mediated over 500 cases covering a wide spectrum of legal specialties. He is an Adjunct Professor at Tulane Law School and has authored numerous articles and essays on mediation.

Nancy Welsh, J.D. (Harvard),

Professor of Law at Penn State, Dickinson School of Law, teaching Civil Procedure, Negotiation/Mediation and  Conflict Resolution Theory. She is a leading scholar in the field of ADR focusing primarily on negotiation and court-connected and agency-connected mediation. She is the past executive director of Mediation Center and advised the Minnesota Supreme Court regarding the institutionalization of ADR in the state's courts. She is currently Chair of the ADR Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Governing Council of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. Before joining the faculty of Penn State, she practiced as corporate litigation lawyer. She mediates contract, employment and public policy matters; consults with courts on dispute resolution system design and evaluation; and trains attorneys and judges in mediation skills

Prof. Charlie Wilson, J.D. (New York University),

is a professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  He teaches Legal Negotiations & Settlement, Education Law, Labor Law, and Civil Procedure.  He has taught negotiations, alternative dispute resolution, and conflict management to lawyers and judges in Barcelona, Spain; Sapporo, Japan; Oxford, England; and Beijing, China.  Prior to joining the OSU law faculty in 1981, he was a labor lawyer in New York.  He has taught negotiations as a visiting professor at Loyola and Brooklyn law schools.  He frequently serves as a negotiations consultant and has been involved in the negotiation of more than 200 collective bargaining agreements.  He was recently named a Top Lawyer in the April edition of Columubus CEO and was recently presented with the Outstanding Citizen Award by the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association for his service to the people of Ohio.

Prof. Dr. Joachim Zekoll, LL.M. (Berkeley),

A. D. Freeman Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law, professor for civil law, civil procedure and comparative law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Specialist in the areas of international civil litigation and comparative law. Has published extensively in both fields

Prof. Bruno Zeller, PhD (Univ. of Melbourne),

Associate Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne and adjunct professor at Murdoch University, Perth. He teaches International Trade Law, International Arbitration, Conflict of Laws and Maritime Law. With numerous publications concerning international trade law and arbitration, his research contributes to the understanding of uniform international laws, especially the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Currently he is researching the design of effective dispute Resolution mechanisms to resolve disputes in carbon trading. He is an MLANZ accredited arbitrator and a member of the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia