Dedication to Professor Roberta S. Mitchell

• Author: William H. Bluth
• Pages: i-iii

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To bring a wider audience to her work in dispute resolution, Capital University Law School founded the Center for Dispute Resolution (the Center) in 1984 with Professor Mitchell as its founding director. The Center provides training, direct services, and program and material development to both legal and non-legal organizations in the areas of mediation, negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution. The activities of the Center have had a significant impact both nationally and internationally on changing the way we as a society view problem solving. It has conducted successful programs in both Jamaica and Nicaragua as well as throughout the United States.

In Ohio, Professor Mitchell was instrumental in the establishment of the Governor’s Commission for Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, which became an official part of state government. She went on to found Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio and regularly serves as a mediator for the United States District Court, where she has been called upon to help settle a number of large scale community disputes. She has produced countless video tapes on mediation that have been used in training programs throughout the world.

Similarly, since taking over as Director of Clinical Programs over twenty years ago, Professor Mitchell has greatly expanded the scope and depth of the law school’s clinical offerings. In 2000 she was instrumental in obtaining funding from the Columbus Coalition on Family Violence to establish a Family Advocacy Clinic. Through this clinic, our students represent victims of family violence from the beginning of their contact with the legal system to the conclusion of their cases. On the criminal side, our legal interns now prosecute cases in several central Ohio municipalities, which provides valuable public...