A. MARCO TURK, ESQ.
A. MARCO TURK, ESQ.
A. Marco Turk specializes in resolving family law matters. He is Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding, and Director of that on-campus (B.A. and M.A.) and online (M.A.) program, at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). He also serves as Chair of the CSUDH 23-program Graduate Council (2005-2007), member of the University Curriculum Committee, and member of the Program Review Panel. Prior to his arrival at CSUDH in the fall of 2002, Professor Turk taught in the Global Peace and Conflict Studies Program and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he began his full-time academic career in 1995.
In private practice, Professor Turk specialized in family law. He established new family law in California concerning date of separation in determining division of community property; see In re Marriage of von der Nuell [1994], 23 CA4th 730, 28 CR2d 447.
Professor Turk is an experienced family law mediator. He regularly teaches a graduate course in Marital and Family Mediation to his students as well as those enrolled in the Marital and Family Therapy program at CSUDH. He is recognized internationally for his work as a peacebuilder, educator and trainer. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Conflict Resolution on the Eastern Mediterranean Island of Cyprus (1997-1999), and has made funded return trips in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005 to continue his peacebuilding work with both Greek and Turkish Cypriots. [See: Turk, A.M. (2006). Cyprus reunification is long overdue: The time is right for track III diplomacy as the best approach for successful negotiation of this ethnic conflict. Loyola of Los Angeles International and Contemporary Law Review, 28 (2), 205-255.]
He is a former judge pro tem (Los Angeles Superior Court), arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, a former adjunct law professor teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution, and has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1961. He also serves on a panel of appellate mediators.
In 2003, the State Bar Board of Governors appointed Professor Turk a member of its Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for a three-year term where he was active in advancing ADR in California and serving as a ADR Committee panelist at both the 2005 and 2006 annual State Bar meetings. During 2006, he has served as a consultant to the director of ADR services for the Los Angeles Superior Court. Professor Turk is also a Practitioner/Educator/Researcher member of the Association for Conflict Resolution.
Professor Turk was the featured graduation speaker at the 2005 Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Middle East Symposium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (Nicosia, Cyprus). In addition, his peacebuilding efforts have extended to Norway, Israel, Turkey, England and Nigeria (where he was a featured presenter at the 1st African ADR Summit [Power of Change 2006]), as well as to both coasts of the United States. In October 2003, Professor Turk participated as one of only two Americans invited to attend the Oxford University international workshop on "Getting to Yes" regarding efforts to reunify Cyprus. Currently, he serves as the external consultant to the Nigerian Negotiation and Conflict Management Group concerning its curriculum development design model regarding dispute resolution design for the Shell Petroleum Development Co. in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria.
As part of his continuing work with the Cyprus Fulbright Commission through the U.S. State Department, Professor Turk conducted a two-week education/training program for six Cypriot family court judges in the Los Angeles area in August 2004, dealing with family law in a federal system. His two earlier Fulbright/State Department education/training programs in the USA for Cypriots (lawyers, judges, law professors, and police) have dealt with: (1) the administration of justice, and (2) community policing, in the United States. During the summer of 2005, Professor Turk returned to Cyprus with Dr. John Winslade and Dr. Gerald Monk to conduct advanced narrative mediation training programs through the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace (San Diego State University). In November 2006, he was invited to participate with Drs. Winslade and Monk in the Cyprus Forum that hosted six Cypriot academicians under the auspices of the Hansen Institute.
J.D. cum laude, Southwestern University School of Law, 1960
B.A., University of Washington, 1956