Using Emotional Intelligence to Communicate through Conflict

RBUS 107

Kelly Browe Olson is an Associate Professor and the Mediation Clinic Director at UA Little Rock Bowen School of Law. She is a frequent national speaker and trainer, educating judges, lawyers, and other professionals about dispute resolution, communication, conflict, emotional intelligence, family, and children’s legal issues. She teaches Family Law, ADR, Domestic Violence and Mediation and Family Mediation Seminars. She oversees a state-wide Special Education mediation project and mediates family cases. She is co-editing a book on Family Dispute Resolution for Oxford University Press.

She currently serves on the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission and on the Family Court Review editorial board. She trains and consults for the Arkansas ADR Commission. Professor Browe Olson has a University of Michigan J.D., and an LL.M. in ChildLaw from the Loyola University Chicago. She was awarded the Bowen Faculty Excellence Public Service Award in 2004 and 2013.