Symposia


Each year, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution hosts an annual symposium, which addresses an important and current topic related to dispute resolution.

Since 2012, the annual symposium has been supported by Jed D. Melnick, one of the founding editors of the Journal, and the symposium is now titled the Melnick Annual Symposium.


Past Symposia

Fall 2023: How Should a Multidoor Criminal Courthouse Operate?

Fall 2022: Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means

Spring 2022: The Death and Resurrection of Dialogue

Fall 2020: Presumptive ADR and Court Systems of the Future

Fall 2019: Innovations in Justice: Experiments in Restorative Processes

Spring 2019: The Singapore Mediation Convention: Compliance with Cross-Border Mediated Settlement Agreements

Fall 2017: Persistent Human Divides: Creative Initiatives for Communication, Collaboration, and Cohesion

Fall 2016: The Pound Conferences: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Fall 2015: All in the Family

Fall 2014: Is Mediation a Sleeping Beauty

Fall 2013: Bioethics, Health Policy, and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Age of Obamacare

Fall 2012: Negotiating the Extremes: Impossible Political Dialogues in the 21st Century

Fall 2011: Culture, Religion and Conflict Resolution: What’s Identity and Faith Got To Do With It?

Fall 2010: Energy and the Environment: Preventing and Resolving Conflicts

Fall 2009: Conflict Resolution at Work: ADR in the Private and Public Sectors

Fall 2008: Whither Arbitration?

Fall 2007: ADR in the Aftermath Post-Disaster Strategies

Fall 2006: Restorative Justice: Choosing Restoration of Retribution

Spring 2004: Justice in Mediation

Spring 2003: Negotiating With Terrorists And Non-State Actors: The Journey To World Peace

Fall 2002: ADR in the Entertainment Industry

Spring 2002: Arbitrating Corporate Malfeasance

Fall 2001: Sports Law and ADR

2000: Using Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property Cases

1999: Addressing the “Redress”: A Discussion of the Status of the United States Postal Service’s Transformative Mediation Program

1999: Shed their Swords and Armor to Enter Certain ADR Arenas?

1998: The State of the States: Dispute Resolution in the Courts