4th Annual CPR + USP Collaborative Event
The Ruy Barbosa Nogueira Auditorium
Historic Building of the Faculty of Law at USP2nd Floor, Largo de São Francisco, 95
São Paulo 01239-001
Brazil
Event Details
An IMC Week event by CPR’s Brazilian Advisory Board
CPR Institute and the CPR Brazilian Advisory Board are proud to once again collaborate with the University of São Paulo to present a FREE dispute resolution program for the legal community in São Paulo as part of CPR's IMC Week* 2027 - in honor of our 10-year anniversary of the International Mediation Competition in Brazil!
Many thanks to CPR Brazilian Advisory Board member Carol Hannud and University of São Paulo Professor Carlos Alberto De Salles for this valuable partnership between CPR and USP, and to our speakers, sponsors and supporting organizations!
4th Annual CPR +USP Collaborative Event
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2027
Location: The Ruy Barbosa Nogueira Auditorium, 2nd Floor
The University of São Paulo, Largo de São Francisco, 95
São Paulo, Brazil
This year’s theme will be announced soon!
Attendees will participate in a dynamic World Café styled conference featuring moderators and experts to facilitate conversations centered around the role of various stakeholder groups in preventing and managing disputes. Attendees will rotate through the following five categories:
- Judges and Public Advocacy
- In-house Legal Departments
- Lawyers and Arbitrators
- Neutrals and Mediators
The program: Rotating through the five stakeholder categories, participants will play a vital role in building collective wisdom to generate a summary of best practices for preventing and managing disputes.
The results: A policy paper will be generated in real time during the conference by harnessing AI to to process input from participants as they rotate through the stakeholder categories, the results of which will be shared when we reconvene in the auditorium and then later featured in an upcoming publication of the CPR Institute.
This program is part of IMC Week 2027, to give a warm welcome and best wishes to all the competing teams, judges, and volunteers participating in the 2027 CPR International Mediation Competition.
*CPR's IMC Week is held annually and features various programs and events in conjunction with our world renowned International Mediation Competition, which brings student competitors, seasoned mediation professionals, and judges from around the world to meet in São Paulo every year. Click here to learn more about the 2027 CPR IMC.]
This program information will be presented in English and Portuguese.
AGENDA
Welcome by representatives from the following organizations:
- University of São Paulo (USP)
- CPR Institute
- USP Law School Alumni Association
Associação dos Antigos Alunos da Faculdade de Direito da USP - XI de Agost Academic Center
Centro Acadêmico XI de Agosto
Program introduction
- Explanation of the World Café dialogue process
- Introduction of the featured experts
Expert-led discussions in the following categories:
- Judicial
- In-house
- Law firms
- Neutrals (including mediators)
Program summary and presentation of best practices
Location:
The program will be held in the Rui Barbosa Nogueira auditorium which is located on the second floor of the historic building.
The rooms in the Law School Building can be located via the following app: https://salas-fd-usp.web.app/salas
CPR thanks our generous sponsors for their support of this event!
Sponsors (Patrocínios):
Media Partner (Parceiro de mídia):
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NELD - Núcleo de Estudos de Legal Design (Legal Design Center) at the USP Law School brings together those interested in Legal Design with the goal of discussing and developing the subject. In addition to theoretical discussions based on selected bibliography, the Center provides members with lectures by notable guests in the field, as well as workshops for the practical application of the concepts and projects studied.
SanFran Jr., a junior company of the USP Law School, has been democratizing corporate law in the market for 22 years. Being specialized in legal consulting for the second and third sector, their mission is to train and develop members for the job market, while causing social impact. In addition, they are responsible for organizing Internship Week, the largest legal internship fair in Latin America.
A SanFran Jr., empresa júnior da Faculdade de Direito da USP, atua democratizando o direito societário no mercado há 22 anos. Sendo especializados em consultoria jurídica para segundo e terceiro setor, sua missão é capacitar e desenvolver os membros para o mercado de trabalho, ao mesmo tempo em que causa impacto social. Além disso, é responsável pela organização da Semana do Estágio, maior feira de estágio jurídico da América Latina.
USP Legal Innovation Laboratory is a talent accelerator born from the intersection of Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Law. Its objective is to produce new inventions applied to legal problems and to train founders of Legal Technology Startups within the USP Law School and throughout Brazil. It operates through a structure of squads that function as small startups, receiving real-world institutional problems and developing functional prototypes using technologies from the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
For More Information:
to be announced soon!
President and CEO, CPR Institute
Serena K. Lee serves as the President and CEO of CPR Institute and CPR Dispute Resolution Services. Prior to joining CPR, Ms. Lee served in various roes with major alternative dispute resolution providers for nearly two decades, where she oversaw dispute resolution centers, managed operations and case management staff, and participated in various business development and outreach efforts. Ms. Lee is a frequent speaker on the appropriate use of dispute resolution processes and participated in many ADR trainings as a faculty member.
Holds a specialization from the University of Coimbra. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo. Participant in the Summer School of the London School of Economics and Political Science, extension courses by the Interaction Design Foundation, AJ&Smart, ICAgile, Insper, FIA and FGV.
Judge, São Paulo Court of Justice
Professor, USP Law School, Procedural Law Department
He is an associate professor in the Department of Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (FDUSP). He obtained his bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and post-doctoral degrees in Law from the University of São Paulo in 1986, 1992, 1998, and 2011, respectively. He is also a Judge of the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo, since 2013, having entered through the constitutional quota for the Public Prosecutor's Office. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the United States, on two occasions: during the 1996/1997 academic year and in January and February 2008.