CJCR Publishes Volume 25, Issue 2 (Symposium 2023)

 Second of three issues is now available online and in print edition.

Left side, top to bottom: Amy Schmitz, Cynthia Alkon, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg

Top middle row, left to right: Michael O’Hear, Erin Collins, Darren Wheelock

Bottom middle row, left to right: Kay Levine, Ronald Wright, Tali Gal

Right side, top to bottom: Olivia Kalsner Kershen, Ross Herman, Miranda Sapoznik

The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution—the country’s preeminent legal journal of arbitration, negotiation, mediation, settlement, and restorative justice—today published the web edition of Volume 25, Issue 2 (Symposium 2023). The print edition of the issue has also been released.

Accessible at Volume 25.2: Symposium 2023, this issue contains Articles by Cynthia Alkon, Amy Schmitz, Erin R. Collins, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, Tali Gal, Kay L. Levine, Ronald F. Wright, Michael O’Hear, and Darren Wheelock, and Notes by Ross Herman, Olivia Kalsner Kershen, and Miranda Sapoznik. 

Professor Cynthia Alkon is a law professor and the Director of the Criminal Law, Justice & Policy Program at Texas A&M University School of Law.  Professor Alkon teaches Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Procedure, and Negotiation. Before joining academia Professor Alkon was a criminal defense lawyer with the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office and worked in rule of law development in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union focusing on criminal legal reform. Professor Alkon’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of criminal law and dispute resolution and she has written and published extensively about plea bargaining. 

Amy Schmitz holds the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Endowed Chair in Law at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She serves as co-director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute Responsible Data Science Community of Practice and is the director of the JusticeTech Capstone and Fellowship Program, while also working with the Program on Dispute Resolution, Program on Data Governance and the Divided Community Project. Professor Schmitz teaches courses in Arbitration, Contracts, Lawyering and Problem-Solving, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Social Media and Conflict, AI, Data Analytics and the Law, International Arbitration, and Consumer Law.

Erin R. Collins is a Professor at the University of Richmond School of Law. Her scholarship critically examines popular criminal system reforms, such as specialized criminal courts, gender-responsive punishment practices, and actuarial sentencing, with a particular focus on how evidence-based, data-driven reforms can replicate systemic inequities and stall decarceration efforts. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review, NYU Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and BYU Law Review, among others. Her paper, The Problem of Problem-Solving Courts, received the 2019 AALS Criminal Justice Section’s Junior Scholar Award. Professor Collins has served on the board of the AALS Criminal Procedure Section. Before entering academia, Professor Collins was an appellate public defender in New York City and the Executive Director of the Clemency Resource Center at NYU Law School. She earned her J.D. from NYU Law School and her B.A. Wesleyan University.

Dr. Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg is a Professor of Law and former Associate Dean for Research at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2023-2024). She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Israeli Criminal Law Association. She specializes in criminal law and procedure, and her areas of expertise include criminal law theories, criminal justice reform and alternatives to incarceration, therapeutic jurisprudence, and the interface between criminal law and gender. Professor Dancig-Rosenberg is an Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she has been a recurring Visiting Professor (2016-2018, 2021-2023). Before joining Bar-Ilan, she clerked for the State of Israel Attorney General. She was the Academic Director of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Aid Clinic for Violence Against Women. Professor Dancig-Rosenberg is a permanent member of the Advisory Committee for the Israeli Minister of Justice on Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law. She has published in leading American, European, and Israeli law journals and received numerous grants and awards for academic excellence and community involvement. She is currently a co-principal Investigator of some empirical projects, including a study on alternative measures of success at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in NYC; a study on the use of social media by sexual assault survivors; and an observational study on one of San Francisco’s abolitionist initiatives.

Dr. Tali Gal is Professor of Law and Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law, where she is Chair in Child and Youth Rights and Academic Director of the Child and Youth Rights Program at the Minerva Center for Human Rights. Tali holds a PhD (Law, the Australian National University, under the supervision of criminologist John Braithwaite), an LLM (American University Washington College of Law), and an LLB (Hebrew University). Her scholarship integrates legal, criminological, and psycho-social knowledge and involves restorative justice, children’s rights, and therapeutic jurisprudence. She is the author of the book Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model (OUP, 2011), and co-editor (with Benedetta Faedi-Duramy) of International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation (OUP, 2015).  Before joining the Hebrew University in 2022, she was a faculty member at the University of Haifa, where she was Head of the School of Criminology since 2018. Professor Gal has published extensively in peer-review and law-review journals in the areas of her expertise. Tali holds editorial roles at The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Youth Justice, and Frontiers of Psychology; and is a Founding Board Member of the Israeli Society of Victimology. Prior to joining academia, Tali was the Legal Advisor of the Israel National Council for the Child. 

Kay L. Levine is a Professor of Law at Emory Law School. After graduating from Duke University, she received both a JD and a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research and teaching interests center on the fields of criminal law and procedure, with a particular emphasis on prosecutorial culture and behavior in the United States. She previously served as the co-editor of the Law Section of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences and is currently the co-author of a casebook about criminal procedure. Her work has been widely published in both law journals and peer reviewed journals, including the Yale Law Journal, The George Washington University Law Review, the Arizona Law Review, the Stanford Journal of Crime and Public Policy, the Fordham Urban Law Journal, the American Criminal Law Review, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and Law and Social Inquiry.

Ronald F. Wright teaches and writes about criminal procedure and criminal law at Wake Forest University School of Law. He is the co-author of two casebooks in criminal procedure and sentencing; his empirical research concentrates on the actors (prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys) who run the criminal courts. He is an advisory board member for several professional associations for state court prosecutors. Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest, he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecuting white-collar criminal cases.

Professor Michael O'Hear teaches criminal law and related courses at Marquette Law School. He is the author or coauthor of more than eighty scholarly articles, books, and book chapters on sentencing, criminal procedure, and other legal topics. His books include Sentencing Law, Policy and Practice (Foundation Press 2022) and Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era: How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway (University of Wisconsin Press 2017). He was in private practice as a civil and criminal litigator in Chicago before joining the Marquette Law School faculty in 2000.

Dr. Darren Wheelock is the Director for the McNeely Prison Education Consortium (MPEC) at the Center for Urban Research, Teaching & Outreach. He is also an Associate Professor of Criminology and Law Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences and the Director for the Criminal Justice Data Analytics MS program at Marquette University. His research interests include examining the intersection of racial/ethnic inequality and criminal punishment, survey research methods, evaluating the effectiveness of "rehabilitative" criminal legal intervention for the reentry process, and quantitative research methods. He teaches classes on reentry; race, crime and punishment; and social statistics. 

Ross Herman is a 3L student at Cardozo School of Law. Over the 2023-2024 academic year, Ross served as an Articles Editor for Volume 25 of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. His Note “Conflict Resolution-Negotiation: LIV v. PGA Tour” explores the pitfalls of the “framework” agreement PGA Tour and LIV reached on June 6th, 2023, comparing the author’s proposal of negotiation to the established agreement.

Olivia Kalsner Kershen is a 3L student at Cardozo School of Law. Over the 2023-2024 academic year, Olivia served as a Notes Editor for Volume 25 of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. Her Note “Applying Family Mediation to the Creation of Psychiatric Advance Directives” explores Psychiatric Advance Directives (“PAD”), proposing mediation as a viable form of conflict resolution for mental health treatment. The Note forwards incentives to integrate mediation as a component of PAD formation, as well as its limitations.

Miranda Sapoznik is a 3L student at Cardozo School of Law. Her Note “Pacifying Professional Negligence Disputes—The Prospective Path for Mediation Within the Psilocybin Industry” explores the benefits that can result from using mediation in resolving professional negligence controversies within the emerging field of psilocybin use. The Note proposes two pathways for implementing mediation as a dispute resolution tool in order to benefit vulnerable populations and alleviate the burdens of litigation on small businesses. 

The Executive Board of the Journal would like to extend its deepest gratitude to each and every Staff Editor and Editorial Board member who worked so diligently on editing the Articles and Notes for this issue.