Ava J. Abramowitz has been a mediator for the federal courts in the District of Columbia since the late 1980s, bringing decades of expertise to a wide range of civil cases, including some of the oldest and most complex disputes in the courts. Her mediation experience spans international and domestic corporate cases, class actions, and issues involving civil liberties, intellectual property, and employment discrimination. After leaving her position as vice president at Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc., where she managed the architects and engineers professional liability insurance program, Ms. Abramowitz expanded her focus to design and construction disputes and insurance matters. She has also served as an owner’s representative on residential construction projects, further deepening her understanding of the industry’s challenges.

Professor Harold (Hal) Abramson has been deeply involved in the development and practice of domestic and international dispute resolution for more than thirty years. He contributes as a teacher, trainer, author, and participant on professional committees and serves actively as a mediator and facilitator. He also has taught or trained on dispute resolution in nineteen countries on six continents.

Lela Porter Love is a professor of law and the founding director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (NYC). The Kukin Program has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the top ten law school programs in the US in dispute resolution since 2000. She founded (in 1985) Cardozo's Mediation Clinic—one of the first clinical programs to train law students to serve as mediators. Love has served as mediator, arbitrator and dispute resolution consultant in community, employment, family, human rights, school-based and commercial cases. An active educator and participant in dispute resolution activities, she regularly conducts mediation training programs and courses both domestic and international.     

Professor Sternlight is the Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law at the UNLV Boyd School of Law, where she also directs the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. She received her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa and High Honors) from Swarthmore College and her J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard University, where she served as editor in chief of the Harvard Civil Liberties - Civil Rights Law Review. Professor Sternlight then clerked for federal judge Marilyn Hall Patel in California and subsequently practiced plaintiff-side employment law in Philadelphia. Professor Sternlight started her academic career at Florida State University School of Law, where she received tenure, and then moved to the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, where she was the John D. Lawson Professor of Law and also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. She joined the Boyd faculty in 2003.

Joseph B. (“Josh”) Stulberg is the Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. A former Vice President of the American Arbitration Association in charge of its Community Dispute Services, Josh regularly conducts mediation training programs for court-annexed programs, government agencies, and professional and community groups in the United States and internationally.  He has published 11 books and manuals and more than 45 articles on conflict resolution topics; he is co-chair of the Editorial Board of the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Magazine.