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International Mediation and Leadership Development Institute (IMDLI)
September 7, 2026 @ 8:00 am - September 11, 2026 @ 5:00 pm
The UC Law San Francisco Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), at the University of California College of Law, San Francisco, in partnership with the JAMS Foundation, is proud to present the International Mediation Development & Leadership Institute (IMDLI). IMDLI is intended for a diverse group of professionals—lawyers, judges, court administrators, academics, mediators, and others—interested in learning how to cultivate robust mediation ecosystems in their home countries and how to become an effective leader of mediation implementation and development. Top-level U.S. and international experts drawn from the court system, private ADR institutions, and universities will share best practices and lessons learned from decades of ADR reform experience—information that is rarely available to the public. Anticipated topics covered:
- How mediation can promote access to justice and help reduce court backlogs
- How to design and operate mediation centers (public/court annexed and private)
- How to build capacity and ensure that such centers are sustainable into the future
- How to draft mediation legislation and rules
- The advantages and disadvantages of voluntary, mandatory, and judicial referral models
- How to convince mediation skeptics and secure their buy-in
- The social, political, economic, and legal ingredients and interventions necessary for a mediation center to thrive and for an ADR ecosystem or culture to take root
- The importance of data collection and analysis
- What empirical research on ADR tells us about the who, what, where, when, and how of mediation, including what works and what does not
- Factors that have helped drive the success of mediation in the U.S. and other key jurisdictions
More information here.
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