Barbara Swartz
Director and Professor. (Mediation as a Conflict Resolution Process). Professor Barbara Swartz is the Bruce K. Gould Distinguished Professor of Law at Touro Law Center. She has a J.D. from New York University Law School, an M.P.H. from Columbia University and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She has worked and taught in Denmark where she was a Fulbright scholar and lectured in Canada, Yugoslavia, Germany, Italy and England. She has been a consultant forW.H.O., U.N.I.C.E.F., and the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, England. She is an occasional commentator on Court TV. In addition, Professor Swartz is a professional mediator. She is currently consulting at the United Nations and has handled family, commercial, medical malpractice and numerous workplace disputes. She has trained many mediators including staff at the United Nations.

The Penelope Andrews
Professor (International Human Rights Law)
Professor Andrews is an Associate Professor at CUNY at Queens. She has an LL.B from the University of Natal, South Africa and an LL.M from Columbia University. She was a legal intern at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc in 1984; a Chamberlain Fellow at Columbia, 1985; a Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1986-92; and an Associate in the Legal Resources Center, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1989-90. She has been an Associate Professor at CUNY since 1993. She has also been a consultant for the Ford Foundation and the United Nations Development Fund for Women.

Thomas A. Schweitzer
Professor. (International Law & Human Rights)
Professor Schweitzer graduated cum laude with honors from the College of the Holy Cross. He received an M.A. and a Ph.D in Modern European History from the University of Wisconsin and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He was an associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 1977 to 1980 and a trial attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the Department of Energy in Washington from 1980 to 1984. At present he is a professor at Touro Law Center, where he has taught since 1984. In addition to International Law, his courses at Touro have included Civil Procedure, Conflicts of Law, Comparative Law, Education Law, First Amendment and Law and Religion. He has published law review articles in the fields of First Amendment Law, International Law, and Education Law.