Tara Ollapally is an international lawyer and mediator with over 25 years of experience across the United States and India. She is the co-founder of CAMP Arbitration and Mediation Practice Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s pioneering private mediation institutions, and has been actively involved in advancing the mediation movement in India since 2015.
Tara regularly trains lawyers, mediators, and professionals in negotiation and mediation. She is part of the CAMP–Edwards Mediation Academy faculty, has taught at multiple law schools in India, and has served as Coordinator for the Mediating Disputes course at Harvard University.

Her mediation practice spans family, inheritance, commercial, construction, real estate, education, and consumer disputes. Her facilitative approach supports parties in reaching informed, collaborative outcomes grounded in mutual understanding.
Tara is licensed to practice law in New York and Bangalore, India, and holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School.

You can learn more about Tara at www.taraollapally.com

Corey Linehan is Associate Director of the Center for Negotiation & Dispute Resolution at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. He holds faculty appointments at Bay Path University and Georgetown University Law Center, where his teaching focuses on negotiation, communication, and legal practice. As a consultant with Triad Consulting, he works with organizations and leaders to more effectively address conflict.

Outside his teaching and training, Corey’s career has focused on negotiating complex public policy and government matters. He previously served in roles at the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate navigating interbranch conflicts and advancing legislation from drafting through enactment.

Corey holds a JD from Harvard Law School, MEd from the University of Missouri—St. Louis, and BSFS from Georgetown University. He is barred in California.

Read more: https://www.uclawsf.edu/people/corey-linehan

Dwight Golann has been a mediator and teacher of dispute resolution for more than thirty years. A Research Professor of Law at the University of California Law—San Francisco and Suffolk University—Boston and, he has led trainings for U.S. government agencies, the European Union, and ADR organizations on five continents.

Professor Golann has resolved hundreds of legal disputes and is the author of the American Bar Association’s leading books on mediation, Mediating Legal Disputes and Sharing a Mediator’s Powers. He formerly served as Chief of the Trial Division for the Massachusetts Attorney General, litigating cases at every level of the American court system.

He is the only person to have received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American College of Civil Mediators and the ABA Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Dispute Resolution.

Read more at: https://www.suffolk.edu/academics/faculty/d/g/dgolann

Hiro N. Aragaki is a tenured professor of law at University of California College of Law, San Francisco and the Faculty Director of its Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. He is also a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS College of Law in London. His scholarship in ADR has won prestigious accolades and been published in top U.S. law journals, including flagship law reviews at NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA. He has consulted on ADR reform projects around the world, including as an Advisor to the Supreme Court of India’s Expert Committee on Mediation (tasked with drafting the bill that would become the Mediation Act, 2023) and as a mediation expert for the World Bank’s Business Ready Project.

He has served as a mediator and arbitrator for over twenty years, most recently with JAMS, is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute (U.K.), and a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (U.S.).

Read more at: https://www.uclawsf.edu/people/hiro-aragaki

Day 1: Morning Sessions

The workshop will open with an exploration of the purposes of experiential education and how the pedagogies to be explored over the weekend relate to a model ADR curriculum to which participants will have access. Participants will study and practice active listening frameworks that strong negotiators, mediators, and advocates in ADR processes use. The session will then also teach tools for providing students feedback in an experiential context, including distinctions between coaching and evaluative assessment.

Day 1: Afternoon Sessions

The afternoon sessions will focus on best practices for using roleplays to teach negotiation—including their purposes, how to set them up, and how to debrief them so that students’ experiences are translated into robust theoretical and practical takeaways. Participants will have the opportunity to practice debriefing a negotiation roleplay and use the listening and feedback frameworks presented in the morning session.

Day 2: Morning Sessions
The second day will open with an opportunity to recap and interrogate anew key themes from the first day’s sessions. The focus will then shift to deploying experiential techniques to teach mediation. Participants will lean and practice an exercise to help students distinguish mediation from arbitration as common alternative resolution pathways. They will then also have an opportunity to practice using demonstration videos to tech key structural elements of the mediation process.

Day 2: Afternoon Sessions
The final afternoon will begin with an opportunity for participants to learn and practice several exercises from a model ADR curriculum, including exercises on active listening and mediator selection. There will then be an opportunity to explore roleplay and debrief differences for mediation cases. The day will conclude with an opportunity to identify and articulate key takeaways from the weekend.