Laura Nader, Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, spoke on Confict Resolution and the Anti-Law Movement: A Global Effort?. Professor Nader's current work focuses on how central dogmas are made and how they work in law, energy science, and anthropology. Nader’s areas of interest include comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, comparative family organization, the anthropology of professional mindsets and ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America and the contemporary United States.

John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, The Joan B.

Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a well-known Middle Eastern scholar and Iran specialist. Haleh Esfandiari spoke on "Iran-U.S. Relations: A View from Prison." Before joining the Wilson Center in 1998, she taught at Princeton University. She is the author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Her essays have appeared in numerous books and scholarly journals and her articles have appeared in The Washington Post and The New Republic.

Saltman Center Guest Speaker Mark Drumbl to speak on "Atrocities, Punishments and International Law."
The event is open to the public.

Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law, spoke on “Mass Atrocity and Traditional Dispute Resolution: The Rwandan and Ugandan Experiences.” Drumbl recently published a book entitled “Atrocities, Punishment and International Law,” which takes issue with the idea that traditional litigation techniques are the best means to deal with perpetrators of massatrocities.

Event time: 12:15 - 1:00 pizza at 12:00.
Saltman Center speaker Laverne Berry, President, New York Women in Film and Television will speak on Mediation and the Entertainment Industry.

Laverne Berry, President, New York Women in Film and Television, spoke on Mediation and the Entertainment Industry. Ms. Berry is an entertainment and media business affairs attorney, a mediator, and an arbitrator. She represents on-air talent, independent producers, television and film production companies, and cable networks. She has been a Director of Legal and Business Affairs for A&E Television Networks and an executive at Thirteen/WNET, New York's premier public television station, RKO General Television, and Avon Books.

David Spencer, Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) and Senior Lecturer Division of Law, Macquarie University spoke on "The Lack of Enforceability of Dispute Resolution Clause in Contracts.”

Daniel Schorr, Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio lectured on "Forgive Us Our Press Passes" as part of the Peace in the Desert™ lecture series. Daniel Schorr's career has included a stint with Edward R. Murrow’s legendary CBS reporting team and a famous confrontation with President Richard Nixon.