Nancy Erbe, LL.M., J.D.
Associate Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
LIB D512 | 310.243.2805 | nerbe@csudh.edu
Office Hours: TW 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Nancy D. Erbe, J.D., L.L.M., is Associate Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding at California State University Dominguez Hills where she has developed courses like Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding and the Ethics of Conflict Resolution.  Most recently, she was a guest professor at Cornell School of Law.  Prior to joining NCRP, she was a visiting faculty scholar at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution , Pepperdine University School of Law, where she taught Dispute Resolution and Education, and faculty at the 1) University of California Berkeley, where with support from the Hewlett foundation she developed and piloted curriculum in multicultural conflict resolution, was the first director of the Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, and faculty for the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program, Center for Sustainable Resource Development, 2) the University of Denver (applied communications and graduate school of social work, where she taught Managing the Angry and Dangerous Client) and 3) University of Oslo International Summer School (to-date her students, clients and colleagues represent over seventy countries). 

Professor Erbe started mediating child welfare cases with the Minneapolis American Indian Center as she was ending her litigation practice with Fredrickson and Byron--- where she represented the Minneapolis Public Schools in disciplinary, special education and school board matters, North Memorial Hospital with immigration concerns, Mayo Clinic and a range of small business, real estate and family law clients.  Before starting a full time ADR practice in 1995, she was asked to lead a treatment team for violent female juvenile offenders and successfully integrated mediation to reduce violent behavior by more than fifty percent in less than six months.  She was then asked to develop national no-violence curriculum for middle school funded by the Department of Justice.  Her mediation and conflict resolution clients include the U.S. Office of the Interior, U.S. Office of Personnel, Colorado State Commission on Indian Affairs, Colorado State Department of Corrections, Bay Area Rapid Transit, City of Boulder Human Relations Commission, Wu Yee, and County of Los Angeles.

She is the author of  Holding These Truths:  Empowerment and Recognition in Action (an interactive case study curriculum in multicultural conflict resolution).  Berkeley Public Policy Press, Appreciating Mediation’s Global Role with Good Governance.  Harvard Neg. L. Rev., The Global Popularity and Promise of Facilitative ADR, 18 Temp. Int’l. & Comp. L. J. and Prostitutes:  Victims of Exploitation and Abuse, Vol. II, J. Of Law & Inequality.  She is on editorial boards for California Caucus of College & University Ombuds:  The Journal and the Int’l Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

In 2005 she was added to the Fulbright roster of Senior Specialists in Peace and Conflict Resolution.  Rotary International has designated Professor Erbe a Paul Harris Fellow in appreciation for furthering better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.    She has also been a Public Interest Fellow, received the Wennerstrom award for outstanding contribution as a director of a legal aid clinic, and been interviewed for Star Channel in India and the Chicago Tribune.

Professor Erbe received her B.A. in non-profit administration from Metropolitan State University, her J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota School of Law, and L.L.M. from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine School of Law.

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Nancy Erbe’s Visit to Cyprus