Center for Dispute Resolution Education
Eva Soeka Center for Dispute Resolution Education106 Wehr Physics
PO Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1181
Telephone: (414) 288-5535
Fax: (414) 288-3259
E-Mail: eva.soeka@mu.edu
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Eva is a lawyer by training and mediator by choice, with more than 20 years of experience in the field in dispute resolution practice, academic research, and
system design. Eva currently serves as the Director of the Graduate Program (Master'sand academic Certificate)in Dispute Resolution,is an Associate Professor of Law, and was an original partner in the Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System. She designed the Wisconsin system with the assistance of a stakeholders' advisory group and administered it for over ten years. Eva served two terms as the chair of the Wisconsin Judicial Council during which time she drafted Wisconsin's ADR civil case refrral statute and its confidentiality statute. In 1994, The Wisconsin Supreme Court appointed her as the only non-judge member of its committee on Mediator Qualifications and Standards. Eva has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Association of Mediators and is a member of the Asscoiation for Conflict (ACR) and the American and Wisconsin Bar Associations. She teaches mediation, negotiation, dispute resolution systems design and is a practicing mediator,
specializing in multiparty, multi-party cases and in design and revision of state systems.
emphasizing early conflict intervention.
Eva has served as a senior consultant to CADRE since its inception. She has presented at each CADRE symposium that has been given since that time and also collaborated as an invited participant in a CADRE research group. She was one of the partners of the Wiscosnin Special Education Mediation System from 1997-2007 and designed and facilitated the stakeholders' model used in creation of the system. In addition to training Wisconsin's roster mediators annually, she has also trained mediators in Ohio and Nebraska and in the Great Lakes region. She also served as the mediator in a complex special education class action suit.
system design. Eva currently serves as the Director of the Graduate Program (Master'sand academic Certificate)in Dispute Resolution,is an Associate Professor of Law, and was an original partner in the Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System. She designed the Wisconsin system with the assistance of a stakeholders' advisory group and administered it for over ten years. Eva served two terms as the chair of the Wisconsin Judicial Council during which time she drafted Wisconsin's ADR civil case refrral statute and its confidentiality statute. In 1994, The Wisconsin Supreme Court appointed her as the only non-judge member of its committee on Mediator Qualifications and Standards. Eva has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Association of Mediators and is a member of the Asscoiation for Conflict (ACR) and the American and Wisconsin Bar Associations. She teaches mediation, negotiation, dispute resolution systems design and is a practicing mediator,
specializing in multiparty, multi-party cases and in design and revision of state systems.
Services Offered
- Attorney
- Conflict Prevention
- Conflict Resolution System Design
- Educator - Administrator
- Facilitator - Group
- Facilitator - IEP
- Facilitator - IFSP
- Mediation Services - ADA
- Mediation Services - Facilitative
- Mediation Services - Multi-party
- Multicultural Experience
- Organizational Development
- Trainer - Advanced Mediation Skills
- Trainer - Basic Mediation Skills
- Trainer - Communication Skills
- Trainer - Negotiation Skills
Academic Degrees
JDSpecial Education and Conflict Resolution Experience
Eva focuses on creating a working partnership between schools and parents byemphasizing early conflict intervention.
Eva has served as a senior consultant to CADRE since its inception. She has presented at each CADRE symposium that has been given since that time and also collaborated as an invited participant in a CADRE research group. She was one of the partners of the Wiscosnin Special Education Mediation System from 1997-2007 and designed and facilitated the stakeholders' model used in creation of the system. In addition to training Wisconsin's roster mediators annually, she has also trained mediators in Ohio and Nebraska and in the Great Lakes region. She also served as the mediator in a complex special education class action suit.