Professor Kristen Adams presents on the importance on team-building

Professor Kristen Adams spoke on the resource of teams at the SLDC luncheon. Photo by Merve Ozcan.

Professor Kristen Adams spoke on the resource of teams at the SLDC luncheon. Photo by Merve Ozcan.

By Rachel Wise

The Student Leadership Development Committee hosted its second luncheon of the semester on March 21 with Professor of Law Kristen Adams.

During the luncheon, Professor Adams discussed the importance of teamwork with a presentation entitled: “The What/Why/When/Hows, and a Few Secrets of Great Teams.”

“The law, as practiced, is very much a team sport,” Professor Adams said. “The more different skills that you are able to bring into a team, the more you can do as a group.”

She explained that it is never too early nor too late to start teambuilding with others. “It starts with something as simple as making sure you know each other by name,” she said.

As an advisor to the Stetson Dispute Resolution Board, she often uses teambuilding to help the competitors come together as a unit and thrive outside of their comfort zones, such as improv exercises, varying practice locations, and even telling the team to ‘go have fun together’ outside of classes.

Professor Adams received her B.A. from Rice University, a J.D. from Emory Law School, and a LL.M. from Yale Law.

At Stetson, she teaches Commercial Transactions, International Sales Law & Arbitration, Property, and various other topics. In 2016, she published her fifth book: CISG Basics: A Guide to International Sales Law, a collaborative project with Professor Candace Zierdt.

“Great teams do not develop by accident. When you put amazing individuals in a room together, they are not automatically a great team,” Professor Adams concluded. “They happen because someone puts effort into team-building.”