History of the Department of Negotiation and Mediation

In 2009, the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin launched the Department of Negotiation and Mediation at the Institute of European Studies and then at the Institute of Law. The post of the Head of the Department was entrusted to Fr. Włodzimierz Broński, PhD, Prof. KUL.

On 1 October 2010 Piotr Sławicki, MA joined the Department as an assistant researcher, along with doctoral students: Marek Dąbrowski, MA, and Kamil Golema, MA. On 1 October 2011, both doctoral students began their regular scientific and didactic careers as assistants, achieving in next few years PhD grades.

The staff members of the Department of Negotiation and Mediation conduct classes at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration in Polish and English, specializing in the fields of Law, Administration, Business Law, European Union Law. They also teach at the other university faculties, holding courses on amicable dispute resolution, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration. They also teach lawyer's professional workshop, legal rhetoric, human resources management and public relations.

 

Research directions in the Department of Negotiation and Mediation

 The staff members of the Department of Negotiation and Mediation conduct research on ADR, i.e. an area of legal science which includes amicable dispute resolution methods. Due to the specificity of the field, research carried out is of a multidisciplinary nature, going beyond the traditional classification of research areas. On the one hand, ADR covers analysis of legal regulations classified into various branches of law - civil law, labour law, criminal/penal law, family law or administrative law. On the other hand, ADR also embraces the issue of legal handling of disputes and amicable methods of solving them.

 

Visiting Professors at the Department of Negotiation and Mediation

1. Prof. Alain Lempereur - Brandeis University USA

2. Prof. Jennifer Bird-Pollan - James and Mary Lassiter Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky

3. Prof. Rumu Sarkar - Fulbright Programme, USA

4. Prof. Emeric Solymossy - Fulbright Program, USA

5. Prof. Adam Sułkowski - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

6. Prof. HongdongNiu - Edinburgh Napier University

7. Prof. Maríe Concepción Rayón - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

8. Prof. Christine Moehler - University of Lucerne

9. Prof. Debbie De Girolamo - Queen Mary University of London

10. Prof. Álvaro Paúl Diaz - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, summer semester 2020