Sharon B. Press
Director, Dispute Resolution Institute
Professor of Law
Activities
- Co-Convenor of Truth and Action: Addressing Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System in Minnesota
- Co-President of Community Mediation Minnesota
- American Association of Law Schools (AALS) ADR Section Executive Committee, January 2022 – Present.
- Mediator, Dispute Resolution Center and MN Department of Human Rights
- Project Seshat Working Group, 2021 – Present.
Law Review Articles
- Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness?,” (with Ellen E. Deason), 22 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 453 (2021)
- The Truth and Action Project: Addressing System Racism in the Criminal Justice System in Minnesota, (with Richard Frase and Juanita Freeman), Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, forthcoming 2022
- Hybrid Warfare or Conflict Management?, (with Veronique Fraser, Andrea Schneider and Nancy Welsh), Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming 2023.
ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine
- Editorial Board Co-Chair
- Feature Column – On Professional Practice
“Mental Health and Mediation” Spring 2022 (with Nikki Knisley); “Is Racism Embedded in Mediation?” Summer 2021 (with Ellen E. Deason)
- “The Education of an Activist: An interview with community participant and organizer John Thompson,” ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine (Vol. 27, No. 3), August 2021.
- “When Dispute Resolution Practitioners Wear Different Hats, Ethical Considerations Can be Complicated,” ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine, Summer 2019. Reprinted in GPSOLO, July/August 2021
Book chapters
- “Making Proposals” in Mediation Ethics: A Practitioner’s Guide (Omer Shapira, ed.) (ABA Publishing 2021)
- “Neutrality in 2020: A Reply to 1981 Stulberg,” (co-authored with Bobbi McAdoo), Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Formative Articles (Hinshaw, Schneider, and Cole, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2021)
Presentations
- DC Multidoor Courthouse: “Racial Reckoning: Challenges for Facilitated Practices,” with Ellen Deason and Isabelle Gunning, October 2022.
- Truth, Equity, & Justice: How We Make Our Way Forward (Again) Together Conference: panel presenter “How We Are Moving Truth and Reconciliation and the Work of Reparations Forward in Minnesota,” with Kevin Lindsey, Jim Bear Jacobs, Jeremy English, and Trahern Crews, October 2022.
- Michigan State Bar Annual ADR Conference, keynote presentation with Ellen Deason, “Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness??,” September 2022.
- Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference, presenter: “Barriers and Bridges to Solutions,” with Terry Wheeler, September 2022
- American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution Conference, presenter: April 2022: “Racial Reckoning: Challenges for Facilitated Processes,” with Ellen Deason and Isabelle Gunning; and “Legal Educators’ Resource Share” with Noam Ebner; April 2021
- Mitchell Hamline Law Review Symposium, Locked Up and Locked Out: Reforming Inequity in the Criminal Justice System, moderator, Restorative Justice/Restorative Practices, April 2022.
- John Jay College/ACR GNY RoundTable, presenter with Ellen Deason, “Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness?” April 2022.
- Rethinking Systems Design for Racial Justice & Equity Conference hosted by Stanford Law School the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution and co-sponsored by the Black Law Students Association, panelist, “The Truth and Action Project: Addressing Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System in Minnesota,” February 2022.
- Palm Beach County ADR Conference, presenter, “Using ADR Skills Beyond Settling Cases: How Can We Use Our Conflict Resolution Skills in a World Gone Mad?” February 2022.
- Minnesota State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, presenter: “Mental Health Issues Within Mediation: Some Ethical Implications,” with Nikki Knisley, May 2022; “Dispute Resolution Neutral Competence: What Does it Mean?” with Dr. T. Anansi Wilson, December 2021; “Standard III: Competence| Is ‘Whiteness’ Embedded in Mediation?” May 2021
- Association of Attorney-Mediators Illinois Chapter, “Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness??” presenter with Ellen Deason, November 2021.
- University of Oregon School of Law ADR Center, “Is Whiteness Embedded in Mediation?” presenter with Ellen Deason, October 2021.
- Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop, “Is Whiteness Embedded in Mediation?” presenter with Isabelle Gunning, October 2021.
- Mosaica (Israel): Community Mediation and Dialogue Around the World, presenter: “How Did Community Mediation Centers Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?” June 2021.
- Congregation Beth Jacob, moderator, Annual Allen-Gorin Lecture – Israel and Palestine: Independent & Interdependent with Sam Bahour and Bernard Avishai, May 2021