De Palo, Giuseppe

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Giuseppe De Palo

Professor
Email: gdepalo01@hamline.edu
Phone: 011-39-06-6938-0004

M.S., University of Urbino, Italy
J.D., University of Bologna, Italy
LL.M., University of California, Berkeley

"Drafting a good contract is not the end of the job for the successful deal-maker -- she must know how to effectively prevent and resolve possible disputes that may arise out of it. This is especially true in the international business arena, where the ability to make and save deals becomes the value-added of the most sought after professionals."

Professor Giuseppe De Palo is Hamline University School of Law's first International Professor of ADR Law & Practice, and a Senior Fellow at the Dispute Resolution Institute. He is President of Rome-based ADR Center SpA, Italy's oldest and largest private provider of commercial mediation services and a mediator of major international business disputes. He is a member of the CPR Panel of International Distinguished Neutrals, the Board of Editorial Advisors of Harvard Law School's Negotiation Journal, and of the International Committee of the ABA, Dispute Resolution Section. He has published widely in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), teaches courses around the world, and is a frequent conference speaker and organizer.

Professor De Palo began teaching international business transactions and ADR at the University of Urbino, Italy, in 1995, while practicing law in the Brussels office of the firm that is now Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr. He became a full-time ADR practitioner and scholar in 1998, co-founding ADR Center and teaching Negotiation and Mediation courses at the Sapienza Università di Roma where, since 2003, he has been the co-director of the postgraduate course "Making and Saving Deals in the Global Business Environment - Negotiating Transactions and Resolving Business Disputes Internationally." In 2004, he served as part of a ten person working group of experts charged by the European Commission to draft the European Code of Conduct for Mediators.

In 2005, Professor De Palo led ADR Center to win the EC-funded, three-year 'ADR MEDA' project (over USD 2 million) to promote international commercial arbitration and mediation in ten Southern Mediterranean countries, where he has been leading a team of over 40 people whose mission is to teach ADR mechanisms to judicial bodies, the bar and business communities, and provide governmental technical assistance.

In 2006, Professor De Palo was one of the driving forces for the establishment of MEDAL - the alliance of leading international commercial mediation and conflict management service providers. Most recently, he was appointed Project Director of the 19-month, "Better Access to Justice in Turkey" project (USD 1.5 million), funded by the European Commission.

At the end of September 2007, he brought together in Rome, Italy, the highest representatives of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, the Arab Lawyers Union, and Union of the Turkish Bars to sign the "Euro-Mediterranean Charter on Appropriate Dispute Resolution." The Rome Charter, an unprecedented document now applying to more than one million lawyers, in over 50 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, defines the duties of lawyers in the field of ADR, with respect to their clients, colleagues, and even their own training.

Publications

Il Movimento ADR negli Stati Uniti d’America, Giuffrè Editore (2009).

Introduction: Negotiation Teaching 2.0, 25 NEGOT. J. 141 (2009)(with Christopher Honeyman and James Coben).Wiley Interscience

Per un Sistema di ADR, in ARBITRATO, ADR E CONCILIAZIONE (Zanichelli Mauro Rubino Sammartano, ed., 2009) (with Andrea Buti).

Le Procedure Primarie di ADR, in ARBITRATO, ADR E CONCILIAZIONE (Zanichelli Mauro Rubino Sammartano, ed., 2009).

Le Procedure Ibride e Multi Fese di ADR, in ARBITRATO, ADR E CONCILIAZIONE (Zanichelli Mauro Rubino Sammartano, ed., 2009).

RETHINKING NEGOTIATION TEACHING (with Christopher Honeyman and Giuseppe De Palo, eds.) (2009).

Managing Commercial Disputes Across the Northern and Southern Shores of the Mediterranean, FORUM VOOR CONFLICTMANAGEMENT, N. 2 (June 2008)(with Theresa Hilton).

ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION IN THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES (2007)(ed., with Mary Trevor).

Promotion of International Commercial Arbitration and Other Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques, in 10 Southern Mediterranean Countries, 7 CARDOZO J. OF CONFLICT RESOL. 303 (2006)(with Linda Costabile).
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Mediation in Italy: Waiting for the Big Bang, in GLOBAL TRENDS IN MEDIATION (2006)(with Luigi Cominelli).

The Italian Government Changes a Key Feature in the Brand New Rules on Company Mediation, 2 INT. J. OF DISP. RESOL. 85 (2004).

Introduction and Italian translation of G. Richard Shell, BARGAINING FOR ADVANTAGE (2004).

MEDIATOR’S HANDBOOK (2004) (with Leonardo D’Urso and Dwight Golann).

Crisis of Courts and the Italian Mediation Debate, 25 INT. J. OF DISP. RESOL. 17 (2003),republished in Nadja Alexander, ed., GLOBAL TRENDS IN MEDIATION (2003).

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES COURTS (1999).