Keeping it Together: Mediation in the Era of Civil Unrest

William “Bill” Froehlich ’11 is the current Langdon Fellow in Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He graduated cum laude from Moritz in 2011 and served on the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law while in law school. In addition, he worked on public policy consensus building projects as a research fellow with the Election Law @ Moritz program, and served as research assistant in the areas of nonprofit law and professional responsibility. He has an undergraduate degree in math and political science from Denison University.

Prior to commencing the fellowship, Froehlich worked in labor relations and practiced labor law as an associate attorney with Muskovitz & Lemmerbrock, LLC. Before beginning law school, he worked as a legislative aide in the Ohio Senate.

Nancy H. Rogers, Emeritus Moritz Chair in Dispute Resolution at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, teaches and writes primarily in the dispute resolution area.

Her recent article on divided communities, When Conflicts Polarize Communities: Designing Localized Offices That Intervene Collaboratively, 30 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 173 (2015), received the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s (CPR) 2015 Professional Article Award. She co-authored three law school textbooks: Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes (2013); Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Mediation and Other Processes (6th ed. 2012); and A Student’s Guide to Mediation and the Law (1987); and a treatise, Mediation: Law, Policy & Practice (2015-2016).

In addition to serving on the Moritz law faculty, Professor Rogers has been Ohio Attorney General, Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, staff attorney at the Cleveland Legal Aid Society, and a federal judicial law clerk. She was President of the Association of American Law Schools, on the Board of the Legal Services Corporation, and reporter for the Uniform Mediation Act Drafting Committee.

Grande Lum is the Director of the Divided Community Project, hosted by the Program on Dispute Resolution at the Moritz College of Law. He is also the founder and a Senior Advisor at Accordence, Inc., a research fellow and lecturer at the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School and a Senior Advisor for Nextdoor. Previously he directed the Community Relations Service at the United States Department of Justice.