Palma Strand

Palma Joy Strand is Visiting Professor of Law.

Professor Strand is Professor of Law in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NCR) Program, Heider College of Business, at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.  Before joining the NCR Program in 2017, she was a member of the faculty of the Creighton University School of Law from 2007-2017.

Professor Strand has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  She clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Byron R. White on the United States Supreme Court. She received an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a was a Hewlett Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Legal Problem-Solving.  Prior to joining the Creighton faculty, she taught at the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Maryland School of Law.

Professor Strand is Co-Founder and Research Director of the national non-profit Civity, which supports local communities in creating the relational infrastructure that is foundational to addressing complex public problems.  She designs and facilitates Conversations About Race & Belonging for public school educators and parents.  She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Omaha Community Council for Racial Justice and Reconciliation, which has coordinated with the Equal Justice Initiative to commemorate two historical lynchings that occurred in Omaha.  Her research and writing center on the civic foundation for governance and law and on law’s interaction with systemic injustices such as racism and misogyny.  She is Affiliated Faculty at Stanford University’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and she has served as Chair of the University Network for Collaborative Governance.