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Local and Global Mediation: How Law Students from Creighton University are Making an Impact

published April 15, 2023

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Creighton Law students at the Creighton University School of Law are actively pursuing ways to apply the principles of mediation to their local and global communities. Through their research efforts, they hope to further bridge the gap between lawyers, mediators, and the communities they serve.


The Creighton University School of Law is dedicated to supporting the legal needs of their local and global community. By utilizing mediation, they aim to foster understanding, collaboration and compromise among disputing parties. Mediation is viewed as an effective way to reduce conflict, improve communication and reach mutually beneficial agreements.

The students are researching and developing new ways to apply mediation principles both locally and globally. Working with local organizations, they hope to create opportunities for lawyers and mediators to come together and identify and analyze conflicts. With the goal of finding efficient and cost-effective solutions, they will then implement the mediation principles to reach a mutually beneficial resolution.

The Creighton Law students are also dedicated to the global application of the principles of mediation. To this end, they have collaborated with the United Nations, researching the current global mediation frameworks and assessing how these can be further enhanced. They are also exploring the impact of non-adversarial forms of conflict resolution as a way to create agreements and foster peace between countries.

The Creighton Law students are dedicated to applying the principles of mediation both locally and globally. Through their research, they hope to develop more effective ways for lawyers and mediators to come together and reach mutually beneficial resolutions. By utilizing the principles of mediation, they aim to reduce conflict, improve communication and strengthen relationships both locally and around the world.
 

Applying Mediation Globally and Locally

Mediation is increasingly becoming a popular form of alternative dispute resolution around the world. Creighton Law School students in Omaha, Nebraska, are taking part in a program to promote international and local mediation by training students in the principles of mediation.

The program, called the National & International Internships in Mediation (NIIM), is a collaborative effort between Creighton Law School and the National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution (NIACR). The program is open to all Creighton Law School students and has a special emphasis on attracting students from international law schools.

Creighton Law School was chosen because it is a national leader in alternative dispute resolution and has an impressive reputation in the field. The school has a long-standing commitment to international law and a commitment to teaching students practical skills that can be applied globally and locally.

The NIIM program offers various internship opportunities such as international and domestic mediation and conflict resolution, dispute system design and development, and international mediation policy and research. The program also includes seminars, mentoring, and field experience.

The program focuses on the development of students' skills in mediation and conflict resolution and provides them with an opportunity to apply those skills in an international and/or local setting. Through this program, Creighton Law School students will gain invaluable expertise in the field of mediation, which they can use to pursue professional careers in this field both domestically and internationally.

Jeri Hunter, now in her third year of Creighton Law School, was at her home in Abilene, TX, on the morning of September 11, 2001, she says, when her husband called to tell her to turn on the television. While she did not know anyone who died or was injured on that day, as she watched the events unfold, she knew it would affect her family. Hunter's husband is an Air Force officer, and she was sure he would be involved in whatever followed.

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For Hunter, seeing children overseas dancing in the streets to celebrate the attack changed her life. "It was like a switch when I saw that," she says. The sight pushed her to go to law school, to show her own children that education is important, and to teach others "how to solve their differences without flying planes into buildings." That television image made her think. "I can do something," she says. "I want to make the world a better place."

Hunter came to law school seeking legal training in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) focusing on mediation. She sees mediation as essential to certain types of disputes, such as those in family law, and she hopes "if we use mediation now, then more people will accept it, and the more expected it will be down the road."

Suzanne Kaufman-McNamara, also a third-year law student at Creighton, sees mediation and ADR as useful tools in her ideal legal practice: helping families with legal issues when they are neither rich enough for personal attorneys, nor poor enough to receive free legal aid. "It's a group I really want to reach out to," she says.

Kaufman-McNamara will embark on her second career after graduation, having worked for 20 years with the Air Force as a Russian linguist. She is working toward her dispute resolution certificate. She took a mediation class this past fall, and, she says, "I'm sold on it."

After getting accepted to Creighton Law, Hunter says she was surprised that the school had "such limited classes in ADR." This limitation will soon change with the launch of the Werner Institute for Dispute Resolution at the school next year.

While too late for Hunter as a law student, she will be able to take advantage of the institute's seminars for practicing lawyers, which are planned to be a large part of the offerings. "I'd really like to be a part of it," says Hunter. ADR "should be part of every law school curriculum," she says.

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Especially in family law, Hunter says, "courtrooms just make it worse." Mediation is a "saner way to do business," she says. "There's nothing like being able to come up with your own solution."

There is even room for ADR in tax law, says Hunter, who is interning with the IRS right now. For example, if someone owes taxes and does not realize it, instead of dragging the person to court, the IRS often will negotiate with the person and drop some penalties or draw up a payment plan in exchange for a commitment to pay. Eventually, Hunter would like to help small business owners and individuals work out disputes through ADR.

To expand their ADR horizons further, both Hunter and Kaufman-McNamara participated last week in a conference on collaborative law, held at Creighton Law during the school's spring break. The two were selected by their mediation professor, Ron Volkmer, to fill slots at the conference offered to a few students by the planners.

Collaborative law is not the same thing as mediation. There is no mediator, just the representatives of each side and the parties themselves. Collaborative law can involve teams comprised of a lawyer, the client, and a mental-heath professional on each side. Then there is a financial advisor who gives advice to both parties.

In collaborative law, all involved agree to find a solution and agree not to take the case to court. If one side does so, then that person cannot use the same team in court. This provision is to maintain the motivation of all involved to reach a settlement and because information shared during the process cannot be used in court.

For both parties in a divorce, for example, knowing financial information and getting advice from both a lawyer and a mental-heath professional ensure "no power imbalance," says Hunter. This allows the sides to work out an agreement on equal footing.

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"Some disputes belong in court," Kaufman-McNamara says. If a person's rights are being violated (a sexual harassment case), then mediation may not be the best option. In divorce cases, however, especially if there are children involved, mediation is a good way to go. Mediation can "empower people on an individual level," says Kaufman-McNamara.

published April 15, 2023

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