Prof. Giuseppe De Palo*
Giuseppe De Palo, an Italian attorney specializing in international business transactions, is Hamline University School of Law's premier International Professor of ADR Law and Practice. He also teaches International Negotiation Theory and Practice at the Interdepartmental Research Center in European and International Studies of the University of Rome "La Sapienza."
Professor De Palo co-directs the annual international post-graduate course Making and Saving Deals in the Global Business Environment: Negotiating Business Transactions and Mediating Business Disputes Internationally, jointly organized by the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and Hamline University. He is also the European project leader of the program Developing Transnational Curricula in Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration, and Dispute Systems Design, a six-university, transatlantic consortium co-financed by the EC Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture and the US Department of Education (2003 - 2006).
Currently, Professor De Palo is President of Rome-based ADR Center SpA, Italy's first and largest private provider of commercial mediation services (www.adrcenter.it). A mediator of major international business disputes, Professor De Palo was selected to be part of a ten-person working group of experts convened to assist the European Commission's Directorate General for Justice and Home Affairs in drafting a European Code of Conduct for Mediators.
In 2004, he led ADR Center to win the largest grant ever awarded by the European Commission, for Promotion of International Commercial Arbitration and other Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques in MEDA Countries. Professor De Palo is the project's Legal and Arbitration/ADR Expert, and is responsible for providing ADR instruction to jurists and members of the business community and technical assistance to the governments of the MEDA countries. As of April 15, 2006, he replaced Mr. Gilles Blanchi as the project's Team Leader, and he now fills that role in addition to Legal/ADR Expert.
* As of April 15, 2006, Prof. De Palo serves both as Project Team Leader and ADR Expert