Mary B. Culbert
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, The Loyola Law School Center For Conflict Resolution
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8334
Fax: (213) 365-9713
E-mail: mary.culbert@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BS, University of Wisconsin Madison
JD, Loyola Law School
Professor Culbert is the Director of The Center For Conflict Resolution at Loyola Law School, where she previously served as a senior mediator supervising students. A graduate of Loyola Law School, she returned to Loyola in 1994 as an Adjunct Professor of law and founding Director of the Disability Mediation Center of the Western Law Center for Disability Rights (Currently the Disability Rights Legal Center). After practicing law for several years, Ms. Culbert became a Bilingual Certified Mediator and has mediated extensively since 1992 in numerous community and court programs (over 1500 cases). She served as a resource to local, state and federal agencies regarding the design and implementation of mediation programs. She sat on the California State Bar ADR Committee and Chaired its Ethics Subcommittee since its inception in 1997 until September 2001, where she worked with members of the Judicial Council Working Group to create Ethical Standards of Practice for Mediators in Court-Connected Mediation. She still sits as an advisor to the State Bar ADR Committee today. Ms. Culbert has served on numerous boards and committees over the past 15 years. She has trained and lectured extensively on mediation confidentiality, mediation skills, advanced mediation techniques, disability mediation and legal issues in mediation. She also served an appointment on the Judicial Council Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee, ADR Subcommittee Working Group on Uniform Procedures for Addressing Complaints about Court-Program Mediators. In December 2007, Professor Culbert and the program were recognized in the "TOP NEUTRALS" Supplement to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals and to the Sacramento Recorder, in the section on "Community Mediators: taking it to the streets." In December 2009, she received the Ester Soriano Peacemaker of the Year Award. She and Professor Marco Turk are writing a book on mediation ethics.
Introduction to Mediation, The Center for Conflict Resolution Clinical Externship