Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution

The center offers a unique curriculum with courses taught by  experienced faculty utilizing the college’s state-of-the-art facilities. The curriculum focuses on the substantive and procedural aspects of adjudication and gives students the opportunity to practice lawyering skills in an experiential learning atmosphere. Courses include the traditional trial practice and advanced appellate advocacy as well as a host of more specialized offerings including interviewing and counseling, negotiations, and alternative dispute resolution. Courses focusing on trial and appellate advocacy benefit from the building’s four modern courtrooms, equipped with smart podiums and video display systems.  The more specialized offerings, in which students engage in interviewing, counseling, negotiating, and mediating, are taught in small seminar rooms that feature video-capture systems. Students regularly record learning activities that their professors view in real time or use later to provide individual feedback to the student.