The International Cultural and Educational Association (ICEA), in cooperation with Supreme Court in Ukraine, held an educational program in San Francisco, California during February 22 to March 5, 2025

The International Cultural and Educational Association (ICEA), in cooperation with Supreme Court in Ukraine, held an educational program in San Francisco, California during February 22 to March 5, 2025, which contributed to the development of relations regarding the integration of Ukrainian judges into the international community. ICEA programs target was to learn how to expand and implement mediation and dispute resolution in the justice system.

The program included presentations and meetings with the California Supreme Court, Federal Superior Courts, Stanford Law School, Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution, Berkeley Center for Human Rights at the University of California, Weinstein International Foundation and others.

ICEA would like to express sincere gratitude for invaluable assistance and support of the meetings to:

• Judge Harold Kahn- San Francisco Superior Court,
• Judge Kennet Wine – San Francisco Superior Court,
• Judge James Donato – California Federal criminal Court,
• Judge Alison Tucher – presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District,
• Eric Stover and Laurel E. Fletcher – Professors, University of California Berkeley School of Law,
• Dmytro Kushneruk – General Consul of Ukraine in San Francisco,
• Judge Daniel Weinstein – Co-founder, JAMS Foundation, Weinstein International Foundation,
• Howard Herman – JAMS Foundation lecturer,
• Sukhsimranjit Singh – Director, Global Development of Weinstein International Foundation,
• Ellen Bass – Executive Director, Weinstein International Foundation,
• Grande Lum and Janet Martinez – Professors at the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution, Stanford University,
• Patrick Gunn – partner of Goodwin Procter LLP, San Francisco.

The ICEA program introduced Ukrainian judges to the American justice system and provided the opportunity to network and build relationships with local members of the collaborating organizations and present the experience of the Ukrainian judicial system, the administration of justice during the war and the reformation of the court system in Ukraine.