Lee E. Teitelbaum Utah Law Review Symposium: Dialogue, Disagreement, and Dispute Resolution
DATE: Friday, September 18 2026
TIME: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law and Virtual Event
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
This symposium will examine the conceptual boundaries, practical models, and pedagogical interventions to assess the potentialities and limitations of dialogue as a process for fostering productive disagreement or transforming conflict.
Can dialogue be understood as a distinct form of dispute prevention, resolution, management, or transformation? Are dialogues and their related concepts and practices, such as difficult conversations or civil disagreements, effective ways to handle conflict? Under what circumstances are they an appropriate process to address disagreements? How should dialogues be structured to promote understanding, more constructive disagreement, or meaningful conversations? How to apply dialogue principles to create broader social change rather than just individual transformation? Is dialogue normatively desirable in the face of power imbalances, deep polarization, or intractable conflicts? What practical initiatives and community interventions can shed light on the use of dialogues to deepen understanding, strengthen connection, or transform human relations?
This convening brings together dispute resolution scholars, dialogue practitioners, legal scholars, and other scholars from related fields, including psychology, sociology, political science, media and communication studies, and philosophy to shed light on what dialogues and difficult conversations are, how they are (or should be) conducted, the contexts in which they are beneficial or detrimental, and the interventions that can serve as models for reimagining our relations to others.
AGENDA:
Coming soon.
Registration Fees
General Public (in-person): $25
General Public (virtual): Free
General Public with CLE credit (in-person): $85
General Public with CLE credit (virtual): $60
University students, faculty and staff: Free
Payment portal opens later this summer.
The views expressed in this lecture and in the event description are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the S.J. Quinney College of Law or the University of Utah.
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