Helen Winter

Dr. Helen Winter is a professor at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. Dr. Winter teaches in the Straus Institute’s academic programs and professional training programs and provides academic advisory services to international students. Professor Winter holds a Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from European University Viadrina, a law degree from Heidelberg University, and an LL.M. (’17) in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine. Before teaching at Pepperdine, she served as a Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School while completing her Ph.D and publishing scholarly articles in the field of bias reduction and ADR. Dr. Winter further runs her mediation practice and co-founded R3SOLUTE, a charitable organization based in Berlin that empowers refugees and locals to manage and prevent community conflicts through dialogue work and peer mediation.