Faculty & Staff
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Don
Peters Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution Professor of Law Trustee Research Fellow Box 117626 / Gainesville, FL. 32611-7625 e -mail: petersdon@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0800 / Fax: 352.392.0414 |
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Courses
- LAW 6940 - Mediation
Clinic (6 credits)
NOTE: Enrollment is done by application prior to advanced registration. Students who have taken civil or criminal clinic are eligible only if seats go unfilled.
Participation in delivery of actual mediation services under supervision combined with instruction in mediation theory and skills, including short role-plays, longer simulated sessions, and observations of actual mediations. One-third of credits may be awarded on a letter-grade basis at the option of the instructor. The remaining credits will be awarded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6750 - Professional
Responsibility & The Legal Profession (3 credits)
Examines role of the individual lawyer and legal profession as an entity in contemporary society. Topics include the role of the lawyer as advocate, counselor and community leader; the ethical and moral obligations of lawyers to their clients, other lawyers and society as derived from general ethical and moral principles and as embodied in model rules of the Code of Professional Responsibility; and problems encountered in representing particular categories of clients, including corporations, criminal defendants and indigents.
Prerequisites: None.