Celebrating Prof. Carolyn Wilkes Kaas, a/k/a "Carrie"

After 36 years, at the end of this semester, Carrie Kaas will retire as an Associate Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law (QUSL).

She also will step down as the Associate Dean of Experiential Education and

Co-Director of the Center on Dispute Resolution.

Her primary clinical teaching has been the externship courses, and her doctrinal teaching has been in the areas of family law and in dispute resolution, including mediation and interviewing & client counseling.

In recognition of her externship teaching:

• QUSL students voted her Professor of the Year;
• The Connecticut Bar Association honored her with the Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award in 2023; and
• The AALS Clinical Section’s Externships Subcommittee and the CLEA Externships Committee, honored her with the 2024 Externships Achievement Award.

These quotes from alums reflect Carrie's impact on QUSL students: 

“Carrie Kaas is one of those rare individuals who inspires students with compassion, joy, and a firm hand. My experience with her as a guide through two externships while at QUSL was one of the highlights of my law school journey.” 

“Carrie has a deep commitment to humanizing the field of law: of seeing the people behind the cases and training a future cadre of lawyers who are just as focused on healing as they are on winning.” 

FOR MORE QUOTES AND COMMENTS CELEBRATING CARRIE AND HER MANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUSL, CLICK THIS LINK

40-Hour Mediation Certificate Training Program Spring 2025

Our March-April 40-Hour Mediation Certificate Program filled up early.

An additional session has been scheduled for May 8, 9, 15 & 16.

There are just a few spaces left before we open the waitlist.

You can also register to be notified as soon as the next session is scheduled.

Registration for the Fall session will open later this spring. 

For more information click HERE or go directly to the Registration Page.

Society for Dispute Resolution (SDR) Spring 2025 Update

This spring, the QUSL Society for Dispute Resolution competed in the following competitions:

●     ABA Arbitration Nationals

●     ABA Client Counseling Regionals

SDR will also be sending teams to the following competitions this spring:

●     ABA Representation in Mediation Regionals (March)

●     NYSBA Mediation Competition (April)

Congratulations to all of our competitors!

For more information on the SDR’s competitions, team members, and coaches, see SDR webpage on our Center website

SDR also co-hosted with the CT Bar Association's ADR Section a panel discussion at QUSL, Thurs. Feb. 27, titled "Careers in Dispute Resolution". The panel included:

• Jennifer Rego, Director of ADR Services for the American Arbitration Association in the New England Region
• Attorney Dave Reif, Arbitrator, Mediator & QUSL adjunct professor
• Attorney Doug Mintz, Retired CT Superior Court judge, former CT State Representative, Mediator and Early Neutral Evaluator, and
• Attorney Andrew Knott, Arbitrator & QUSL, J.D. 2003

Spring 2025 Quinnipiac/Yale Dispute Resolution Workshops

"Intersections: Immigration & Labor"

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Attorney Ibrahim Diallo, former Staff Attorney, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and a 2024-2025 Curtis-Liman Fellow.

Attorney Juan Fernando Luna León, UNITE HERE Local 11, Los Angeles, and a 2023-2024 Liman Fellow.

Attorney Michael K.T. Tan, Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Executive Director, The Movement Project, Yale Law School, and a 2008 Liman Fellow.

Attorney Mary Yanik, Assoc. Clinical Professor of Law & Director of Immigrant Rights Clinic, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, and a 2015 Liman Fellow

"SERAPHIM"

Thursday, February 13, 2025

SERAPHIM: A Novel by Former CT Solicitor General Joshua Perry

Juvenile Public Defenders in Post-Katrina New Orleans, "Why Storytelling Matters" In Conversation with Brian R. Gallini, QUSL Dean & Professor of Law

The Workshops are co-hosted by:

The Center on Dispute Resolution, Quinnipiac University School of Law and The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale.