Harvard Law School

• Political Dialogue in Polarized Times: Reading group provides opportunity to explore benefits and limits of civil dialogue on contentious issues.
• Facilitation Workshop: Workshop introduces students to the theory and practice of facilitation and explores issues of power, inclusion, emotions, and identity.

Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

• Engaging Polarized Groups: this course from the Divided Community Project utilized dispute systems design concepts to organized constructive conversations among polarized student groups.
• Difficult Conversations in Polarized Times introduces difficult conversations approach in challenging situations to make them more productive and build mutual respect.
• Lawyers as Leaders: Explores lawyers’ leadership roles through theory, history, and guest speakers; includes self‑assessment, skill development, and reflection.
• Mediation Clinic: Students have had the opportunity to work on constructive and civil discourse in collaboration with OSU‘s Divided Community Project.

Stanford Law School

• Negotiation: The Negotiation course includes a focus on active listening, difficult conversations through exercises, simulations, and personal reflection.
• Facilitation for Attorneys The interactive class focuses on constructive dialogue through examination of group dynamics and learning facilitation skills of clear goals, collaborative problem definition, inclusive process design, and well-structured agenda.
• Leadership and Influence Skills for Lawyers Focus on strategic problem solving, communication, and the ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity.

Temple University Beasley School of Law

• Settlement Seminar: Integrates dispute resolution through discussions of lawyers’ diverse roles, listening exercises, and an emphasis on civil discourse.
• Professional Responsibility: Civility and professionalism explicitly highlighted as central course goals (mature demeanor, civility, diligence, personal responsibility, accountability).

Texas A&M University School of Law

• ADR Survey (7007): Mandatory 1‑credit course for all 1Ls and transfer students; emphasizes reflective listening, respectful communication, and effective questioning to promote civil dialogue.
• Leadership: Leadership discussions frequently include civility, though not explicitly in the syllabus.
• Professional Identity (7110): Focuses on self‑reflection, professional identity development, emotional intelligence, resilience, and ethical decision‑making; includes a module on navigating difficult conversations (distinguishing “questions of understanding” vs. “questions of persuasion”), positively received by students.
• Professional Responsibility (7091): Reviews civility in litigation via the Texas Lawyers Creed; debates litigators’ roles as truth‑seekers vs. advocates.

University of California Irvine Law School

• Complex Negotiation: Includes exploration of underlying theories of conflict resolution and large group facilitation looking at communication, deliberative democracy, political theory, and meeting management.

University of New Mexico Law School

• Public Education and the Constitution: The interactive discussion approach utilizes exercises, role-play simulations, peer teaching and feedback to encourage critical thinking and involves teaching constitutional law to high school students.

Harvard University

• Harvard Teaching Negotiation Resource Center: Searchable database for role-play simulations, interactive teaching exercises, educational videos, curricular packages and scholarly working papers.

Mitchell Hamline University

• Mitchell Hamline Dispute Resolutions Skills Lab: Searchable database for role-play simulations and exercises, and includes constructive dialogue skills, e.g., active listening.

Northwestern University

• Northwestern Kellogg Dispute Resolution Research Center: Searchable database providing exercises illustrating negotiation, conflict management, teamwork, and decision making.