Community Mediation in a Law School Setting

Sara Campos, NAFCM Board member, chair of the Membership Committee will discuss her experience from Law Student to Associate Director of a Community Mediation Clinic housed at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.  In addition, she will highlight the benefits of being a Program member of the NAFCM community.

Change begets conflict begets change.  When faced with conflict, it is human nature to look to the past and present.  Our very judicial system is designed to resolve conflict based on the introduction of evidence of what happened in the past.  Mediation offers an alternative paradigm where disputants are able to discuss the past to understand the present but focus on the future.

These words capture the essence of what drives Sara Campos’s passion for mediation.  Sara is Associate Director at Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution ("The Center"), and an Adjunct Professor at Law at Loyola Law School. She received her B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and her J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1999, being admitted to the California Bar that same year. Formally trained in mediation in 1998 while attending law school, she decided to forgo the traditional practice of law and devote her efforts at helping parties resolve disputes through mediation.  She became a Bilingual Certified Mediator in 1999 through her volunteer efforts with the Centinela Youth Service’s Victim Offender Restitution Services program.