In this blog, I want to pull these concepts all together by explaining what conflict is, what conflict competence is and why it matters, and what basic skills—or what I refer to as “conflict competencies”—are required to make conflict productive.
Read MoreI therefore believe that we need to develop an additional important, overarching skill or conflict competency in order to make conflict productive in our personal and professional lives: courage.
Read MoreFirst Year Curriculum Our students learn in intimate settings throughout their time in the College of Law. First-year students always have at least one class […]
Read MoreThe Wallace Stegner Center kicks off the year in a collaboration with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) at Utah Law on Sept. 7 in a […]
Read MoreTo get beyond this limiting mindset and to be calm, curious, and creative when dealing with conflict, I think we need to lean into another word that starts with C: compassion.
Read MoreThe Wallace Stegner Center’s popular noon-hour green bag series will feature the following presentations during the Fall semester: Environmental Justice in Salt Lake City (September […]
Read MoreDear SJQ Community: One of our top goals is to create an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible (IDEA) community at the S.J. Quinney College of […]
Read MoreThe new 1Ls sat in their torts class at Utah Law in 1998, unsure of what to expect. One of them, David Hill ’01, recalls […]
Read MoreNow the founder and CEO of Rasa Legal, an organization that expunges criminal records, Noella Sudbury has a passion for justice that began with her undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.
Read MoreSo how about curiosity? What does it mean and look like to approach conflict with curiosity, and how do we do this?
Read MoreThe new 1Ls sat in their torts class at Utah Law in 1998, unsure of what to expect. One of them, David Hill ’01, recalls his sentiments exactly: “I was terrified, and I know a lot of other people were pretty terrified as well.”
Read MoreAfter working one year as a visiting faculty member, Professor Brig Daniels has officially joined the S.J. Quinney College of Law, specifically the Wallace Stegner […]
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