An internationally acclaimed film and winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, about a Chinese peasant woman’s quest for justice in a highly bureaucratic society after her husband is humiliated by the village head. Qiu Ju, despite her pregnancy, heads out on the road and faces obstacles while attempting to resolve the conflict through various formal and informal processes.

Atom Egoyan’s masterful, beautifully shot adaptation of the Russell Banks novel about a small community in grief following a horrible school bus accident resulting in the death of several local children. The parents are approached by a slick lawyer that encourages them to process their grief in a manner that is tempting, but not necessarily constructive. This film earned Academy Award nominations for Best Direction and Best Screenplay, as well as a Palm d’Or nomination at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

A provocative documentary exploring the people and events surrounding a controversial ordinance adopted by Prince William County, Virginia, requiring police officers to question anyone they had “probable cause” to suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. This public conflict placed the Washington D.C. suburban county at the center of a national debate over immigration policy.

List and descriptions provided by Arthur Pearlstein

Professor of Law and Director of

the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

Creighton University - School of Law (2009) Omaha, Nebraska.

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