Professor Richard Birke serves as director of Willamette’s Center for Dispute Resolution, which administers of one of the top-10 dispute resolution programs in the United States. An award-winning author, he has taught dispute resolution for more than 15 years. After starting his career at Stanford University, he made the move to Willamette in 1993. Birke has trained individuals from a prestigious list of organizations, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Oregon Department of Justice, the Attorney General's Offices of Washington and Texas, the American Bar Association, the Oregon Court of Appeals, the First District Court of Appeals in California, and many of the largest law firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland.

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Professor Cunningham-Parmeter is an expert in employment and immigration law. He has been quoted in the national press, including the Los Angeles Times. Cunningham-Parmeter teaches Employment Law and Discrimination, Labor Law, and Contracts, and his research focuses on the intersection of employment law and immigration law.

Cunningham-Parmeter was ranked among the top persuasive speakers in the nation in college and won two writing competitions at Stanford Law School. Following graduation, he served for two years as law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He then worked as a Skadden Fellow with the Oregon Law Center Farmworker Program, representing migrant agricultural workers in the areas of occupational health and workplace discrimination.

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