Mediation, as distinguished from arbitration or negotiation, is likely to emerge in a law school's curriculum only if a faculty member wishes to teach it, but a trend toward inclusion is growing and leadership is being provided by individuals, professional organizations, institutions, and research groups. (MSE)

The University of Missouri-Columbia Law School has implemented a first-year course in dispute resolution integrating topics in torts, property, civil procedure, contracts, and criminal law and taught by teachers in all of those areas. (MSE)

This report describes a program to produce four videotapes to be used to enhance previously produced materials that integrated teaching about alternative dispute processes into standard first-year law school courses at the University of Missouri-Columbia (UM-C). Another objective of this project was a comparative evaluation of the previously…