Founding Partner Jim Craven Teaches in China
24-11-2009
Founding partner Jim Craven recently traveled to China to teach mediation and conflict resolution skills.
In addition to his mediation practice in the Northwest, Jim is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. The law school is home to the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, recently ranked # 1 conflict resolution program in the world by Newsweek Magazine for the fifth consecutive year. Jim has been on the faculty at the Institute for the past six years.
In 2008, the Straus Institute was retained by the Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC) to provide mediation skills training to Chinese lawyers, judges and arbitrators. The training was split into two sessions with 40 plus students in each class. The BAC maintains a distinguished panel of arbitrators dedicated to the resolution of commercial disputes which arise between Chinese and North American and European companies. With the exponential increase in trade between the West and China the efficient and cost-effective resolution of commercial claims has become a top priority on both sides of the planet. In securing the training services of the Straus Institute, the BAC was intent upon adding a solid mediation capability to its dispute resolution program.
Jim and his colleagues at Pepperdine will soon be called upon to participate in co-mediation of international conflicts with their newly trained mediators in Beijing.