10:20-12:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Room 201 Court Yard Building
The Limits of Narrative
Professor Harriet Murav - "The Limits of Testimony on Genocide in Dovid Bergelson's Yiddish Prose"
Professor Ellen Waldman - "The Limits of Narrative:Story-telling and 'Magical Thinking' in Restorative Justice Schemas"
Professor Ilene Durst - "Bearing False Witness: Genocide and Narrative [Un]Reliability"
Professor Deborah Hertz - "The Lessons of Viktor Klemperer's Unhappy Jewish Identity"

Professor

Professor Ellen Waldman holds a law degree from New York University and an LL.M. in mental health law from the University of Virginia. She has held fellowships at both the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy and the Center for Biomedical Ethics, graduate programs housed at the University of Virginia. Professor Waldman has directed various grant projects seeking to educate communities about their rights in the health-care arena as well as enhancing knowledge about conflict resolution techniques. She sits on the ethics committees of two local health-care institutions and has served on the mediation roster of both community mediation centers and the courts. Her research interests in the bioethics arena include assisted reproduction and technologically-driven changing concepts of the family. In the mediation area, Professor Waldman has written and spoken on the role of legal and social norms in alternative dispute resolution, changing conceptions of justice in mediation, and the intersection between therapeutic jurisprudence and alternative dispute resolution movements.