If the Quinnipiac University School of Law has a calling card, it’s the school’s Center on Dispute Resolution, which was studying alternatives to litigation before ADR was a hot topic nationwide. Quinnipiac’s program in civil advocacy and dispute resolution is ranked 12th nationwide in U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Law Schools. The law school’s new dean, Jennifer Gerarda Brown, was the immediate past director of the center.

Now, with Brown having a much larger portfolio, Quinnipiac has named two new co-directors for the Center for Dispute Resolution. One of them is Charles Pillsbury, who is one of Connecticut’s pioneering mediators and a co-founder of the Connecticut Mediation Network.