St. John's boasts a wealth of faculty with expertise in the
field of Dispute Resolution. The Hugh L. Carey Center for
Dispute Resolution is guided by:
Elayne E. Greenberg
Assistant Dean of Dispute Resolution
Programs
Professor of Legal Skills
Director, Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute
Resolution
Elayne
E. Greenberg became the first Director of the Hugh L. Carey Center
for Dispute Resolution at St. John's in 2009. She offers an
unmatched breadth and depth of experience in dispute resolution.
She is a mediator and conflict management consultant who has
developed programs, educated, trained, written and lectured
nationally on the subject of negotiation,
mediation, hybrid dispute resolution processes, dispute
resolution ethics and advocacy in dispute resolution.
Paul F.
Kirgis
Professor of Law
Founder, Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution
Paul Kirgis teaches Negotiation and
Alternative Dispute Resolution and serves as Faculty Chair of the
Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution. His
scholarship focuses on dispute resolution both within and outside
of the traditional civil litigation paradigm, exploring topics
including the role of juries as decisionmakers in the civil justice
system and the theory underlying judicial deference to arbitration
awards. His articles have appeared in the Oregon Law Review,
William & Mary Law Review, Ohio State Law Review, Georgia Law
Review, and the peer-reviewed Negotiation Journal, among
others.
Our Securities
Arbitration Clinic is led by:
Lisa A.
Catalano
Director, Securities Arbitration Clinic and Associate Professor
of Clinical Legal Education
Lisa Catalano directs the St. John’s
Securities Arbitration Clinic. She has extensive experience
representing broker-dealers and brokers in customer disputes,
regulatory investigations, and collection and employment matters,
and has conducted numerous arbitration hearings, training sessions
and seminars. She also serves as an arbitrator with
the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Her
scholarship includes The Tort of Giving Negligent Investment
Advice (with Seth Lipner), published in the University of
Memphis Law Review.
Christine
Lazaro
Supervising Attorney, Securities Arbitration Clinic
Christine Lazaro is an experienced
securities dispute resolution advocate. She supervises
students in the Securities Arbitration Clinic and coaches dispute
resolution competition teams.
In addition, St. John's boasts an impressive roster
of full-time faculty members who teach, write, and/or practice
in the field of Dispute Resolution, and contribute their energies
and expertise to the growth of Dispute Resolution at St. John's,
including:
David L.
Gregory
Dorothy Day Professor of Law
David Gregory is a
nationally-recognized scholar in the fields of Labor and Employment
Law, with several books and more than two hundred academic and
professional publications to his credit. He is a member of the
National Academy of Arbitrators, and he is on the Labor and
Employment Arbitrator Panels of the American Arbitration
Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the
New York State Public Employment Relations Board, and the New York
City Office of Collective Bargaining. He is also a designated
arbitrator on many private and public sector labor contracts.
Mark L.
Movsesian
Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law
Mark Movsesian teaches International
Commercial Arbitration, as well as Contracts and Comparative Law
& Religion. A former clerk to Justice David Souter of the
United States Supreme Court, his publications have appeared in the
Harvard Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law,
Washington & Lee Law Review, and Cardozo Law
Review, among many others.
Janice
Villiers
Associate Professor of Law
Janice Villiers teaches
Interviewing and Counseling, as well as courses in Immigration
Law. In addition to her J.D. from Columbia, she holds a
Master’s degree in Counselor Education from New York University’s
School of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts Professions. A
co-founder of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and
Economic Development, she launched St. John’s University's
Community Business Development Program, which assists minority,
women, small, disadvantaged and local business enterprises in their
long-term growth and development.
Ettie
Ward
Professor of Law
Ettie Ward is a practicing mediator
who also specializes in international dispute resolution and
complex litigation. Her publications include Mandatory
Court-Annexed Alternative Dispute Resolution in the United States
Federal Courts: Panacea or Pandemic, published as part of
St. John’s School of Law’s Symposium entitled Transatlantic
Perspectives on ADR. She is active in the ABA Section of
Dispute Resolution and the AALS Section of Dispute Resolution, and
is a frequent lecturer on dispute resolution.
Nicholas
R. Weiskopf
Professor of Law
Nick Weiskopf teaches in the area of
Commercial Arbitration, and has extensive experience as a
commercial arbitrator. His scholarship focuses on contracts,
commercial law, and arbitration, including his article Arbitral
Injustice: Rethinking the Manifest Disregard Standard for Judicial
Review of Awards, published in the University of
Louisville Law Review, and Hall Street, Judicial
Review of Arbitral Awards, and Federal Preemption, published
in the Review of Litigation.
Adam Zimmerman
Assistant Professor of Law
Adam Zimmerman served as counsel to
Special Master Kenneth R. Feinberg in the design and administration
of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Afterwards,
he was associated with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP,
where he represented clients in complex commercial litigation and
mass tort cases, as well as domestic and international arbitration.
His scholarship explores the way class action attorneys, regulatory
agencies and criminal prosecutors provide justice to large groups
of victims through overlapping systems of tort law, administrative
law and criminal law. His recent articles have been accepted
for publication in the Columbia Law Review, Duke Law
Journal, New York University Law Review,
and University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
We make extensive use of Adjunct Faculty who bring their
real-world practice experience to our students. Our roster of
Adjunct Faculty teaching in Dispute Resolution includes:
Peter J. Bernbaum,
Mediator, Arbitrator, and Attorney. Professor Bernbaum has
more than 30 years of experience negotiating settlements and other
agreements for parties to disputes and for clients in a broad
spectrum of industries and encompassing a wide range of legal
matters. He teaches Drafting ADR Documents and Intensive
Negotiation.
Nancy M. Thevenin,
Special Counsel, Baker McKenzie LLP.
Professor Thevenin is global coordinator for Baker & McKenzie’s
International Arbitration Practice Group. Her experience
includes both arbitration and mediation under the auspices of the
International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) and the International
Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration
Association. She specializes in international commercial
litigation, international arbitration, creditors’ rights and
business torts. She teaches Internation Commercial Arbitration.
Scott E. Mollen, Partner, Herrick Feinstein,
LLP. Professor Mollen is an experienced mediator and
attorney. He serves on the Board of Editors of the New York
Law Journal, for which he writes a weekly column. Professor
Mollen teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Please
contact us to learn more about St. John's Law faculty
affiliated with the Carey Center.