Mediation

Program Overview

In the Mediation Clinic, students learn professional neutral intervention skills that allow parties to resolve their disputes. As mediators, students help parties resolve landlord tenant, family, neighbor and employment-related disputes. Interns work in two-person teams to co-mediate cases under direct faculty supervision and second–seat faculty in complex cases. Clinic interns study the substantive law in the matters we mediate including contract law, disability and anti-discrimination law, and court procedures/protocol for dispute resolution. Students also study mediation and dispute resolution theory from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Highlights of Mediation Clinic

• Observing mediations in the courts, administrative agencies and community centers
  
  
• Mediating cases in the courts, administrative agencies and community centers
  
  
• Mediating with attorneys who represent plaintiffs/complainants and/or defendants/respondents
  
  
• Mediating in multicultural and cross-lingual settings, often with interpreters/translators