Panel discussion: problem-solving mechanism to achieve consensus: how do we ensure successfull resolution?
Fordham Urban Law Journal › Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, January 2008
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Panel discussion: problem-solving mechanism to achieve consensus: how do we ensure successfull resolution?
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Jacqueline Nolan-Haley, Fordham Law School SPEAKER Cathy A. Constantino, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Georgetown Law School, George Washington Law School Sean F. Nolon, Pace University Scshool of Law Joseph A. Siegel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency PROF. NOLAN-HALEY: Welcome once again to our second phase of the program, our panel discussion. We are focusing this morning on problem-solving mechanisms to ensure and achieve consensus and we are asking the question: "How do we ensure successful resolution?" As you can tell from the initial lecture this morning with Professor Susskind, we are moving beyond basic ADR in this symposium, to understand, in the public arena, how various ADR processes might be helpful, how they can be used to effect change in important public policy areas. Our panelists this morning will offer us a rich reservoir of their thinking and their experience to help address this question. My introductions will not do them justice. Their detailed bios are in the materials. But let me just introduce them briefly. The format will be that each speaker will speak for about twenty minutes. After each panelist speaks, we will entertain one question from the floor. When the three panelists are finished, then we will entertain general questions from the floor. Our first panelist this morning is Cathy Costantino, who is best known for her expertise in systems design. Cathy is also a facilitator and mediator and an organization development consultant. She is counsel in the Labor and Employment Unit at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC, where she handles federal class actions and other complex dispute-resolution matters. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and George Washington Law School. She came up from Washington to be with us this morning. Cathy is the author of several publications, most notably her book Designing Conflict Management Systems: A Guide to Creating Productive and Healthy Organizations. This book received the Best Applied Book Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. In addition to her work on the domestic front, Cathy has worked with stakeholders on the international front. She has done considerable work in Africa. She has been a consultant to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She was the sole U.S. delegate at the United Nations to the U.N. Commission on the Social Effects of Structural Change in the Banking Industry. Our next speaker, Mr. Sean Nolon, is perhaps best known for his expertise in land-use law. Sean is the Director of the Land Use Law Center and Executive Director of the Theodore Kheel Center for Environmental Solutions at Pace University Law School in White Plains. Mr. Nolon trains local officials, environmentalists, and developers in land-use law and consensus-building techniques. He has also taught these topics in law school. He mediates landuse disputes and he is a certified mediator and arbitrator in Westchester County. Mr. Nolon is a member of multiple planning boards, including the New York Planning Foundation, the Housing Action Council, the Hudson Clearwater Sloop, and the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation. He is on the Leadership Council for the Association of Conflict Resolution's Environmental Public Policy Section. He is the author of several publications dealing with collaboration, land use, and conflict assessment. Our third panelist, Joseph Siegel, is well known for his work in environmental ADR and air-pollution law. He is an ADR Specialist and Senior Attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At the EPA, he specializes in ADR and air-pollution law. He has worked on enforcement and policy issues for the agency for over twenty years. He teaches a seminar on air pollution, climate change, and emissions trading at Pace Law School, Center for Environmental Legal Studies. He has taught environmental law for eleven years at CUNY Law School. He also is a community mediator in Westchester County and has worked as a facilitator on land use and environmental health issues in public housing. He serves in numerous leadership roles in the American Bar Association. Most notably, he is the Public Service Vice Chair for the ADR Committee of the Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources. He is Co-Chair of the ABA Committee on Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems and he also is the author of several articles on environmental ADR. With great pleasure, I present our first panelist, Cathy Costantino. AN OVERVIEW OF CONSENUS BUILDING PROF. COSTANTINO: Thank you very much, Jackie. Thank you, Phoebe. Thank you, Samantha. And thank you for inviting me to New York. It's always a pleasure to come north, although I have to say, the weather was a b...See the full content of this document
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