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Giuseppe De Palo, Negotiation, January 4, 5, 7, 8
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Timothy Hedeen, Theories of Conflict, January 11, 12, 14, 15
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Lela Love, Mediation, January 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
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Sukhsimranjit Singh, Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution, January 16 & 17
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Joseph (Josh) Stulberg, Mediation, January 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
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Mary Trevor, Writing to Persuade, January 9 & 10
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Zena Zumeta, Facilitation Skills, January 9 & 10
Giuseppe De Palo is an Italian attorney specialised in international business transactions, is Hamline University School of Law's first International Professor of ADR Law and Practice. He also teaches International Negotiation Theory and Practice at the Interdepartmental Research Center in European and International Studies of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
For the two universities, De Palo co-directs the international post-graduate course Making and Saving Deals in the Global Business Environment: Negotiating Business Transactions and Mediating Business Disputes Internationally, jointly organized by the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and Hamline University. He is also the European project leader of the program Developing Transnational Curricula in Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration, and Dispute Systems Design, a six-university transatlantic consortium co-financed by the EC Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture, and the Department of Education of the US Government (2003-2006).
Currently, Professor De Palo is President of Rome-based "ADR Center Spa" - Italy's first and largest private provider of commercial mediation services (www.adrcenter.com). A mediator of major international business disputes, Professor De Palo is also a member of a ten-people drafting committee of selected experts that assisted the European Commission's Directorate General for Justice and Home Affairs in preparing a European Code of Conduct for Mediators.
In 2004, he led ADR Center to win the largest grant ever awarded by the European Union (approx. US$ 2 million) to promote International Arbitration and Mediation in ten Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and West Bank & Gaza), where he will be on the ground - teaching ADR to the judiciary, the bar and the business community, and providing technical assistance to the Governments - till the end of 2007.
Timothy Hedeen is an Associate Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. He provides mediation services through court and private programs, delivers trainings in the areas of conflict resolution and communication, facilitates group and public policy decision making and planning, and conducts research and evaluation on dispute resolution. Professor Hedeen serves on the editorial board of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, as associate liaison to the Section Council of the American Bar Association Section, and as past chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Community Mediation. His doctoral degree was awarded with distinction by Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where he was a graduate affiliate in the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts and a student in the Interdisciplinary Social Science program.
Lela Love is a Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law/Yeshiva University. J.D., 1979, Georgetown University; M.Ed., 1975, Virginia Commonwealth University; B.A., 1973, Harvard University. Professor Love directs the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution and the Mediation Clinic at Cardozo School of Law. She has served as a mediator, arbitrator, and dispute resolution consultant in a variety of community, family, commercial and public disputes and regularly conducts training programs for arbitrators and mediators. She is currently Chair-Elect of the Section of Dispute Resolution for the American Bar Association (ABA). She has assisted the State of Florida in implementing its mediator qualification requirements; developed a program for training mediator trainers and a teaching manual for the State of Michigan; and written a mediator's manual for a mandatory mediation program for Louisiana's Office of Workers' Compensation. Professor Love is a widely published author of articles about dispute resolution and has authored textbooks on Dispute Resolution, Negotiation and Mediation. She is member of the Bar in New York, New Hampshire, and the District of Columbia.
Sukhsimranjit Singh, Associate Director, Center for Dispute Resolution, Willamette College of Law. Singh obtained his BA and LLB (hons.) degree in May 2005 from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, University of Law, Hyderabad, one of India's premier law schools. Included among his law school honors was award of the Vice-Chancellor's Gold Medal for Best Male Graduate Student with Proven Leadership Qualities. He continued his studies with a 2005-2006 fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC), where he earned his LLM in Dispute Resolution.
Joseph (Josh) Stulberg is the John W. Bricker Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professional Relations at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester. Professor Stulberg has worked in the area of dispute resolution in a variety of contexts since 1973. He directed the Community Dispute Services of the American Arbitration Association, has mediated significant policy controversies at a state and national level, led the initiatives of the Supreme Court offices in the states of Florida and Michigan to develop and implement the required mediator training programs for their comprehensive court-annexed mediation programs, and has trained mediators nationally and internationally. He has written extensively in the area of dispute resolution.
Mary Trevor started her career in law as a business litigator at Leonard, Street and Deinard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
After leaving practice, she taught Legal Research and Writing at the University of Minnesota and at William Mitchell College of Law. She also was a Legal Writing Tutor at William Mitchell. She first taught Legal Research and Writing at Hamline briefly in the early nineties and returned to that position in 1998.
In addition to teaching Legal Research and Writing, Instructor Trevor has taught Civil Litigation and Trial Practice at the Minnesota Legal Assistant Institute, has served as an Academic Success Tutor at Hamline, and has been a trainer on a pro bono basis for the Minnesota Legal Services Coalition. In addition, she served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment. Currently, she acts as a Writing Coach for new associates at Leonard, Street and Deinard in addition to her teaching duties.
Zena D. Zumeta is president of the Mediation Training & Consultation Institute and The Collaborative Workplace. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Zumeta is a former board member and president of the Academy of Family Mediators, (now merged into the Association for Conflict Resolution) past president of the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation, and past Regional Vice President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. She is currently a member of the Advisory Council for the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution.
Ms. Zumeta has extensive experience as a trainer, mediator, facilitator and consultant. She has been providing mediation services since 1981 and mediation training since 1984. She is an approved civil and family mediator in Michigan, and an approved mediation trainer for Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia and other states.
