Volume 3, Number 3, May 2003
National Intercollegiate
Mediation Tournament
Page 3 of 3
For the academic year 2003-2004, the National
Championship Intercollegiate Mediation Tournament will
be held at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL on November
7-8, 2003. In addition, invitational mock mediation tournaments
will be held at University of Wisconsin, Platteville, Wisconsin
on September 26-27, 2003 and at Brenau University, Gainesville,
Georgia on October 10-11, 2003. For more information, on the
University of Wisconsin tournament, contact John Rink at rink@uwplatt.edu
or (608) 342-1795, or UW-Platteville Social Science Department,
1 University Plaza,
Platteville, WI 53818. For information on the Brenau University
tournament, contact Kenneth K. Frank at kfrank@lib.brenau.edu
or (770) 534-6297, or Conflict Resolution & Legal Studies
Program, Brenau University, One Centennial Circle, Box 18,
Gainesville, GA 30501.
For those professors and students interested in gaining a
working understanding of mediation, they need only let their
interests be known. In addition to the American Mock Trial
Association (http://www.collegemocktrial.org),
the International Academy of Dispute Resolution is prepared
to assist a college or university in establishing a mediation
program where an interested student or professor is affiliated.
To learn what it is like to initiate and coach a mock mediation
team, you may contact me at the addresses and phone listed
above. It is my belief that participation in these mediation
tournaments can truly be a "peak experience" for
college and university students, and encourage the use of
conflict resolution in their lives.
*Much of the historical and descriptive
information of the tournament was provided by Mr. Richard
M. Calkins, former Dean of the Drake University Law School,
and President of the American Mock Trial Association and Dean
of the American Academy of ADR Attorneys.
Kenneth K. Frank, J.D., is a Professor of Humanities
at Brenau University and Director of the Conflict Resolution
and Legal Studies Program. He is also the current Chair of
the National Intercollegiate Mock Mediation Tournament Board
and coach of a past national champion intercollegiate mediation
team.
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