About the Authors
Jay Folberg
Education
B.A., San Francisco State University
J.D., UC Berkeley
Background
Jay Folberg is Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the University of San Francisco School of Law. In addition to being an active mediator and arbitrator for 35 years, he is the Executive Director of the JAMS Institute, the training and education division of JAMS - a national provider of dispute resolution services. He is also Executive Director of the JAMS Foundation. In 1998, Professor Folberg was appointed by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court as chair of a state wide task force on Alternative Dispute Resolution and in 2001 to chair the Judicial Council’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Arbitration Ethics. He was honored in 2003 with the California Judicial Council’s Amicus Curiae Award, its highest honor to a lawyer, “for his leadership in the field of alternative dispute resolution and his outstanding contributions to the California courts.” Professor Folberg is also the recipient of the Academy of Family Mediators Distinguished Mediator Award and the Mediation Society’s Outstanding Contribution to Mediation Award. Professor Folberg has conducted mediation and negotiation trainings around the world.
Dwight Golann
Education
B.A., Amherst College
J.D., Harvard University
Background
Dwight Golann is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School where he teaches Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Mediation and Financial Services law. Professor Golann was a civil litigator before becoming a law teacher, practicing with a Boston law firm and as Chief of Consumer Protection for the Massachusetts Attorney General. He later served as Chief of the Government Bureau and Trial Division for the Attorney General, directing the litigation and settlement of all cases brought against the Commonwealth. Professor Golann has taught and lectured on dispute resolution across North America, Europe, and in China. He serves as a Distinguished Neutral on the Panel of the International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR Institute) of New York and as a panelist for the ADR Center of Rome, the US-China Business Center of Beijing and other organizations. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, taught in the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard, and served as a visiting professor at Oregon, Penn State, Boston University and other law schools.
Professional activities: Past Chair of the ADR Section of the American Association of Law Schools and of ADR programming for the Sections of Litigation and of Business Law of the American Bar Association. Recipient of the CPR Institute Book and Article Awards and the Annual Award for Service of the ABA ADR Section Legal Educators’ Colloquium
Books
- "Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law"(Aspen, 2d. ed., 2010) (co-authored with Jay Folberg, Thomas Stipanowich, and Lisa Kloppenberg)
- "Mediating Legal Disputes" (American Bar Association, 2009)
- "Mediation: The Roles Of Advocate And Neutral "(2006) (co-authored with Jay Folberg)
- "Lawyer Negotiation: Theory, Practice and Law" (2006) (co-authored with Jay Folberg)
- "Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law" (2005) (co-authored with Jay Folberg, Thomas J. Stipanowich, and Lisa Kloppenberg)
- "Manuale Del Concillatore Professionista" (2004) (with Guiffre Editore)
- "Mediating Legal Disputes : Effective Strategies for Lawyers and Mediators" (1996) (This text was the co-winner of the CPR Institute Book Prize for 1996. It is being translated and will be published in Italian in an abridged format that includes examples of European commercial disputes.)
Thomas Stipanowich
Thomas J. Stipanowich is William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law, and Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has had a distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, speaker and leader in the field along with wide-ranging experience as a commercial and construction mediator and arbitrator (now with JAMS), federal court special master, and facilitator. From 2001 until mid-2006, he served as CEO of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). The longtime William L. Matthews Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky, he has authored two of the leading books on commercial arbitration and many articles on ADR, including the highly respected and influential five-volume treatise Federal Arbitration Law (with Ian Macneil and Richard Speidel), named Best New Legal Book by the Association of American Publishers. He received the CPR Best Professional Article award (2010) for “Arbitration, The ‘New Litigation’” and “Arbitration and Choice.” He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the new College of Commercial Arbitrators Protocols for Expeditious, Cost-Effective Arbitration, and Advisor on the forthcoming Restatement of U.S. Law on International Arbitration. He helped found a regional mediation center and has served as an advisor or reporter for many initiatives in the field. In 2008 he was awarded the highest honor of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section, the D’Alemberte-Raven Award for contributions to the field of conflict resolution, and was only the fourth individual (and the first American) to hold the title of Companion, the highest honor accorded by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Lisa Kloppenberg
Lisa Kloppenberg is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Dayton. Previously a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, she is a widely published expert in constitutional law and an advocate of Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR). Under Dean Kloppenberg's leadership at Dayton, the School adopted the Lawyer as Problem Solver curriculum, which has attracted national recognition from the Carnegie Foundation, CPR and others. Each student takes a survey ADR course, in addition to other skill and professional development offerings, including an externship or clinic and a capstone course.
Before teaching, Dean Kloppenberg clerked for the Honorable Dorothy Wright Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then worked with Kenneth R. Feinberg and other ADR leaders in the Washington, D.C., office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. She was involved with litigation, arbitration, and mediation of a variety of domestic and international disputes. She has served as a mediator and performed pro bono work for a number of public interest organizations, including the Guatemala Human Rights Commission, USA.
As a faculty member at the University of Oregon for nearly ten years, Dean Kloppenberg also founded and directed the school’s Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program. In 1994 she was awarded the Orlando J. Hollis Distinguished Teaching Award. She has been a visiting professor at the University of San Diego, Magdalen College in Oxford, England, and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
