Paul J. Zwier

The SEC, the EPA and the EEOC all have Atlanta regional offices, Professor Paul Zwier writes in an editorial co-written Reuben Guttman 85L. "Atlanta is not just a center of international trade, it is also a center for compliance enforcement. With the growth of multinational corporations whose businesses are not defined by geographic boundaries, government agencies and their regional offices that enforce compliance must leverage limited resources to maintain a watchful eye and enforce the laws. Today, this may mean collection of evidence abroad."

A delegation of law professors from URAL State University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, will attend Emory Law's spring session of the Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques program, a learn-by-doing program required of all second-year law students.

"The China-Tibet Dialogue and Its Implications for International Conflict Resolution: A Conversation with Lodi Gyari Rinpoche and Emory Law Professor Paul Zwier" takes place Monday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. Gyari is a Tibetan diplomat and former special envoy to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Zwier is director of Emory Law's Center for Advocacy & Dispute Resolution.

As the number of jury and bench trials shrink, negotiation and mediation skills are even more relevant. Emory's overall attitude toward ADR is that the skills learned are just as relevant in more traditional adversarial settings as in the conciliatory rooms of mediation, says Professor Paul Zwier.

Emory Law professor Paul Zwier advises to take actual conditions into account when establishing a rule of law.

Chinese judges participated in a new partnership between Emory Law, City University of Hong Kong, and Supreme People's Court.