About the Saltman-Annual-Lecture

The Annual Lecture is the Saltman Center’s most important public event of the year. The Annual Lecture is a "big idea" talk for a general audience. Our speakers address a variety of different, interdisciplinary topics that discuss dispute resolution and the role of lawyers as conflict managers.

Past Lectures include: 

2026: Epistemic Reparations and the Right be Known in our Criminal Legal System, Professor Jennifer Lackey, Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Northwestern University

2025: Top Five Tips For Lawyers for Effective Client Counseling on ADR, Professor of Law, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Martin Luther King, Jr., University of California, Davis School of Law

2024: Arbitrating Sports, Politics, & Human Rights: Who Decides?, Professor Maureen Arellano Weston, Professor of Law and Director of the Entertainment, Media & Sports Dispute Resolution Project, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. This lecture is available to view on YouTube. 

2023: Truth. Regardless of Reconciliation?, Professor Michael Moffitt, Philip H. Knight Chair
University of Oregon, School of Law & Honors College, and Professor Bobbie Conner, Director of Tamástslikt (Tah-MAHST-slickt) Cultural Institute, the tribally-owned museum on the Umatilla Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon

2022: Civil Public Discourse: Some Lessons from Psychology, Professor Jennifer Kirkpatrick Robbennolt, Associate Dean for Research and Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Illinois Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2021: Restorative Justice and Anti-Racism, Professor Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of the Law School Harvard University. This lecture is available to view on YouTube. 

2020: Hiding Harassment, Professor Pat Chew, Judge J. Quint Salmon & Anne Salmon Chaired Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

2019: Behavioral Ethics and Legal Negotiation, Professor Russell Korobkin, Vice Dean for Graduate and Professional Education and Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law at UCLA

2018: Gender and Negotiation: What About the Guys, Professor Andrea Schneider, Marquette University Law School