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Sharon B. Press

Associate Professor
Email: spress01@hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2356

 

B.A., The George Washington University School of Public and International Affairs
J.D., The George Washington University National Law Center  

 


View Professor Press' research: SSRN Author Page -- Sharon Press


Professor Sharon Press, Director of the Dispute Resolution Institute, joined Hamline on July 1, 2009. Professor Press served as director of the Florida Dispute Resolution Center for 18 years. She has been an adjunct professor, teaching mediation theory and general ADR survey courses at Florida State University College of Law, Hamline University School of Law, Capital University Law School and the University of Nevada Las Vegas Law School.


Press is the recipient of numerous professional awards, including the Mary Parker Follett Award for Excellence and Innovation in Dispute Resolution presented by the Association for Conflict Resolution and CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution's Special Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field and Future of Dispute Resolution. She is a Florida Supreme Court certified county and family mediator and also has mediated in a number of community mediation centers in Florida and New York.


Press is the co-author of an ADR textbook: Mediation Theory and Practice, with J. Alfini, J. Sternlight and J. Stulberg, 2001, second edition 2006 (LexisNexus). She is chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution Day Committee and serves on the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's Legal Education Committee. Press also served on the committee that re-drafted the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (2005) which have been adopted by the American Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association and the Association for Conflict Resolution. She has worked with numerous states throughout the U.S. contemplating the use of court-connected mediation. Internationally, she has done work in Haiti, Argentina, Uruguay, Hungary, Jordan, and the Caribbean.

 

Publications


Family Court Services: A Reflection on 50 Years of Contributions, 51 FAM. CT. REV. 48 (2013).
 
A Second Dive into Adventure Learning,(with co-authors), in VENTURING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM (Volume 2 in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Series) (Christopher Honeyman, et al., eds., 2010).
 
ADR: A Critical Review of the Recent Literature, 14(2) JUST. SYS. J. 257 (1991).
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Building and Maintaining a Statewide Mediation Program: A View from the Field, 81 KY. L. J. 1029 (1992 - 93).
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COUNTY COURT MEDIATION: A MEDIATOR'S MANUAL (1999)(with Kimberly Kosch).
 
Court-Connected Mediation and Minorities: A Report Card, 39 CAP. U. L. REV. 819 (2011).
 
Ethics for Provider Organizations,in DISPUTE RESOLUTION ETHICS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE (2002).
 
FLORIDA MEDIATION/ARBITRATION PROGRAMS: A COMPENDIUM (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 editions)(with coauthors).
 
Institutionalization: Savior or Saboteur of Mediation? 24 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 903 (1997).
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Introduction to Mediation; Mediator Qualifications and Training; and County Civil Mediation, in ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN FLORIDA (1995).
 
MEDIATION THEORY AND PRACTICE (2006)(with co-authors).
 
MEDIATION WORKS: MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU (1995) Dispute Resolution Center video)(with Gregory Firestone).
 
Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation in Florida - Implementation Challenges for an Institutionalized Program, 11 Nevada L. Rev. 306 (2011).
 
The Name of the Game is Movement: Concession-Seeking in Judicial Mediation of Large Money Damage Cases: Commentary, 15 (4) MEDIATION QTRLY (1998).
 
SENIOR JUDGE AS MEDIATOR: ETHICAL ISSUES (2009) (Dispute Resolution Center DVD)(with Janice Fleischer).
 
Straight Off the Deep End in Adventure Learning,(with co-authors), in VENTURING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM (Volume 2 in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Series) (Christopher Honeyman, et al., eds., 2010).
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What Happens when Mediation Is Institutionalized?: To the Parties, Practitioners and Host Institutions (A Panel Discussion),9 OHIO ST. J. DISP. RESOL. 307 (1994).
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