By Matt Jacob

The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV continues to build on its global reputation for impactful writing and research in the multidimensional realm of dispute resolution. Those contributions continued in 2022 and 2023, with Boyd Law faculty advancing their understanding of disputes and dispute resolution through their published articles, as well as live and virtual presentations around the world.

Here is a sampling of their most recent work:

Professor Lydia Nussbaum, Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and

By Matt Jacob

If someone had told a young Jean Sternlight that she would become one of the legal community’s foremost authorities on alternative dispute resolution, she would’ve laughed.

And after that laughter stopped, she might have uttered a few choice words. 

“Early in my legal career, I saw myself primarily as a litigator,” Sternlight says. “Frankly, I thought negotiation, mediation and arbitration were a little bit for wimps — and I wasn’t a wimp.”

As she matured in her career, though, Sternlight began to realize that it was often in her clients’ best interests to resolve legal

When Jae Barrick decided to embark on a midlife career change—a change that would begin with her enrollment at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV—there wasn’t much doubt that she would gravitate toward the world of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). After all, it was something that was ingrained in her while growing up in the mountains of West Virginia.

“My dad was a union arbitrator whose job was to argue with union guys in preparation for contract negotiations and other issues,” Barrick says. “So as children, we were pretty much forced by dinner conversation to always see two

The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV continues to build on its global reputation for impactful writing and research in the multidimensional realm of dispute resolution.

Compelling articles from Saltman Center professors explore the vast nuances of dispute resolution 

Lydia Nussbaum’s main goal as she takes the reigns of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution: Pick up where her predecessor left off