New Relationship with SMU
Beginning in August, 2013 (I suppose that’s now), I will change my formal relationship with the Southern Methodist University Dispute Resolution program.
For the past few years I have been an adjunct faculty member at SMU, teaching a number of courses on contracts that were good from class to class. Beginning this month, I will be come a “regular” member of the faculty with the title Clinical Professor of Dispute Resolution, and I will be on a yearly contract to teach graduate classes and do other work related to expanding the academic program. I will continue to teach the classes that I have taught in the past – Online Dispute Resolution, International Dispute Resolution, Integrating Dispute Resolution Theories, and Study Abroad courses – and in the short term I will begin teaching the program’s Negotiation course and work with students in internships and special projects. I will not assume any administrative duties at SMU.
I will continue to serve as the NMB’s Chief of Staff for the foreseeable future. I will drop some of the other teaching and consulting work that I have been doing in order to make time to work effectively with SMU and the NMB.
I am excited about the potential for having an increased voice in helping shape the SMU program, and I’m looking forward to whatever challenges the future may bring.