Donald L Carper
California State University, Sacramento
Department of Organizational Behavior & Environment
College of Business Administration

Spring 2002

Courses: OBE018, OBE117,  OBE118 , OBE155

Contact Information

Classes 

Papers and Publications

Research Projects

Professional Associations

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.

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 from Jim Melamed of The Mediation Center, Inc. 

 

Contact Information
Title:	Professor of Conflict Management & Business Law
Office Hours:	Tuesday, 12:00-1:15 Thursday, 7:00-8:15or by appointment
E-mail Address:	carperdl@csus.edu
Office Telephone:	(916) 278-7030
FAX:	(916) 278-5580
Mailing Address:	CSUS
	6000 J Street
	Sacramento, CA 95819-6088

Fall 2002 Classes

• OBE 118  Section 4 & 5
• OBE 18    Section 4

Papers and Publications

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.

Research Projects/Interests

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, coordinated and lectured at a workshop for Korean legal professionals,  participated in 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. In 1997 he 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.

Professional Associations

Among his memberships and professional associations, are the: American Arbitration Association, International Association for Conflict Management, Association of Conflict 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 Valley Advisory Board for the American Arbitration Association and he is an associate with the California Center for Public Dispute Resolution.