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Law
School Receives Gift for Dispute Resolution
By Jeremy Diener
The University of Missouri-Columbia School
of Law will strengthen the international reach of its Center
for the Study of Dispute Resolution thanks to a $100,000 gift
from Geoffrey Oelsner Jr.
A large portion of the gift will be used to
establish an endowment to fund one or more annual awards to full-time
students or faculty members at the University of the Western Cape
(UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa, who wish to participate in MU's
master of laws in dispute
resolution (LLM) program.
“My mother had always been interested
in charitable efforts to further civil and human rights,” Oelsner said. “This represented a tremendous opportunity
for us to go from being of some help in our home state to being
of help to an area of intense hope and suffering — South
Africa.”
MU has a long standing relationship with UWC,
a historically black university with a law school that former
South African President Nelson Mandela relied upon when he chose
his cabinet. In the summer of 2004, the MU School of Law established
a study abroad program
with UWC that gave MU law students the opportunity to study
in South Africa. Today, nine MU law students are enrolled at UWC.
“It is extremely gratifying that Geoff
Oelsner has decided to make such a significant investment in the
Law School and its Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution,” said Larry Dessem,
dean the law school. “The Center has received national recognition
for its pioneering and creative work in the area of dispute resolution.
Geoff's gift will allow the Law School to expand its programs
within the United States and extend this work internationally.”
MU's nationally recognized Center for the
Study of Dispute Resolution was established in 1984 to promote
greater understanding of conflict and conflict resolution in the
legal profession and in society at large as well as to develop
new forms of lawyering.
A portion of the gift also will fund research,
writing and travel expenses for a professor's work in the area
of civil rights and liberties as well as a mindfulness seminar
sponsored by the Center.
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