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Dr. Donald L. CarperProfessor Emeritus of Business LawOffice
Number: TAH-2054 Prof. Carper is on FERP leave this semester. He returns to teaching Fall 2005. Internet
E-mail Address: DONALD
L CARPER, J.D., M.P.A.
About
Professor Donald L. Carper Donald Carper is a Professor of Legal Studies in
Business and
Dispute Resolution in the Department of Organizational Behavior
and Environment in the College of Business Administration
at California State University, Sacramento. He has taught
classes full or part-time since 1973 teaching at McGeorge School of
Law, University of California, Davis and the University of the Pacific
as well as CSUS. Through
teaching, publication, seminars, and conferences, Professor Carper
has established a special expertise in the area of dispute resolution
and arbitration practices. His area of teaching expertise includes
contract law, arbitration practices, conflict management, and negotiation.
Professor
Carper has conducted numerous training programs for state agencies
and labor negotiating teams on organization politics, negotiation
and sexual harassment. Professor Carper has participated as a trainer
in American Arbitration Training Programs for arbitrators and mediators.
He served as an instructor in the CSUS management certificate program
for Chinese managers, presented workshops for the Center for African
Peace and Conflict Resolution in Sacramento and Ghana, Africa, and
presented workshops and speeches on Mediation practices in Kaluga,
Russia for judges, lawyers, educators, businesspersons, administrators,
and public officials. He recently completed a project with the
Russian American Program on Conflict Resolution and the Institute
of Municipal Government in Kaluga, to establish community mediation
centers in central Russia. He
continues to work on various initiatives involving dispute resolution
in Russia and Africa. Recent
research and publications include “Observations from the adaptation
of a North American mediation model in Russia and Africa”; "A
Conflict Management Curriculum in Business and Public Administration";
"Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Business Law Curricula"; "Current
Topics in Dispute Resolution"; and "Remedies in Business Arbitrations."
He has published four textbooks and five teaching supplements
for Thompson Learning and West's Educational Publishing emphasizing
business and personal law. As
a practicing manager, Professor Carper was chair of the Department
of Organizational Behavior and Environment from 1988-1990. During
this period, he served as Director of the Business Education Institute.
Professor Carper was the managing attorney for the Stockman Law Corporation,
a health and corporation law firm, from 1984 to 1986. He served as
Dean of Students at McGeorge School of Law from 1971 to 1977. He began
McGeorge School of Law's Institute of Administrative Justice and taught
in several training programs provided for state agencies. From 1967
to 1971, Professor Carper was a Research Associate with the State
of California Coordinating Council for Higher Education. While in
that position, he performed research, provided legislative and government
liaison, and administered federal grant programs. He
has served as chair, panel member, and sole arbitrator on business
dissolutions, commercial contracts, investment contracts, fraud claims,
insurance coverage, non-compete agreements, employment issues, and
residential land investment real estate disputes. He was a judge pro-tem
for the Sacramento Municipal Court from 1986 to 1989. He has been
an AAA commercial and construction panel member since 1981 and on
the AAA mediation panel member since 1986. He mediates and arbitrates
commercial disputes. Professor Carper received his undergraduate degree
in Personnel and Industrial Relations at California State University,
Chico, his Masters of Public Administration from the University
of Southern California, and his J.D. from the University of
Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. He has completed advanced courses
in administrative law and teaching negotiation from Harvard College
and courses in arbitration, mediation, and negotiation from the American
Arbitration Association. He has studied law and legal practice in
the former Soviet Union. In
addition he has studied under Bill Lincoln of Conflict Resolution Research and Research
Institute and taken Advanced Mediator Training for Jim Melamed of
The Mediation Center, Inc. Among his memberships and professional associations,
are the: American Arbitration Association, International Association
for Conflict Management, Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution,
Industrial Relations Research Association, American Bar Association,
California State Bar Association, and the Academy of Legal Studies
in Business. He has served as a regional President of the American
Society of Public Administration and president of the Western
Academy of Legal Studies in Business. He is member of the Sacramento
Advisory Board for the American Arbitration Association and he
is an associate with the California Center for Public Dispute Resolution.
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