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A founder of the dispute resolution field, Professor Menkel-Meadow came to
UC Irvine School of Law from Georgetown University Law Center, where she is the A.B. Chettle, Jr. Professor of Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure and Director of the Georgetown-Hewlett Program in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving. She has been the Faculty Director of Georgetown’s innovative partnership with 20 law schools from around the world, the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, in which faculty and students from participating programs study international and comparative law in a multi-national setting.
Professor Menkel-Meadow was a professor of law at UCLA for nearly 20 years, also serving as a professor in the Women's Studies program, Acting Director of the Center for the Study of Women, and Co-Director of UCLA's Center on Conflict Resolution. She has taught as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Theory at the University of Toronto, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and as a clinical professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fulbright scholar in 2007, Professor Menkel-Meadow taught and conducted research in Chile, Argentina and China. An international expert in alternative dispute resolution, including international dispute resolution, the legal profession, and legal ethics, clinical legal education, feminist legal theory, and women in the legal profession, Professor Menkel-Meadow has written and lectured extensively in these fields.
She is the author of Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2nd ed. 2011); Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving (2006); Mediation: Theory, Policy & Practice (2006); Dispute Processing & Conflict Resolution (2003), and over 150 articles. She has also been co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, and the International Journal of Law in Context. In 2011 she will publish a three-volume set of edited books on Complex Dispute Resolution (Ashgate Press, 2011), including Foundational Processes, Multi-Party Processes and International Dispute Resolution.
In January 2011, Professor Menkel-Meadow was the recipient of the first-ever Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work presented by the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution section. The ABA lauded her as a "tireless, prolific and influential researcher and writer" who put forth the transformative idea of lawyer as problem solver 25 years ago.
She also has won the Center for Public Resources' First Prize for Scholarship in Alternative Dispute Resolution three times (in 1983, 1990, and 1998), and she won the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching at UCLA and the Frank Flegal Teaching Award at Georgetown (2006).
Professor Menkel-Meadow also sits on numerous boards of public interest organizations and the editorial boards of journals in dispute resolution, law and social science and feminism. She has chaired the AALS Sections on Law and Social Science, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Women in Legal Education, and has been on the Executive Committee of the Section on Clinical Education. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an elected member of the Academy of Civil Trial Mediators. She served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation and is currently a member of the Board of the International Center for Prevention and Resolution of Disputes (CPR).
In addition to her scholarship, research and teaching, Professor Menkel-Meadow often serves as a mediator and arbitrator in public and private settings and has trained lawyers, judges, diplomats, and mediators in the United States and on five continents. She has consulted for such organizations and institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Federal Judicial Center on conflict resolution systems and processes.
Courses Taught: Feminist Legal Theory, International Legal Analysis, Negotiations & Mediation, International Dispute Resolution Processes and Institutions, Pre-Trial Lawyering Process, Civil Procedure, Process and Society (civil procedure in special enriched curriculum), Trial Advocacy, Legal Negotiation, Mediation and Dispute Resolution, Administrative Advocacy, Employment Discrimination, Legal Profession, Feminist Jurisprudence, Women and the Law, Jurisprudence of Sexual Equality, Multi-Party Dispute Resolution Workshop, Global Justice Summit
Recent Publications
- "Scaling Up Deliberative Democracy as Dispute Resolution in Health Care Reform," 74 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-30 (2011)
- "Why and How to Study 'Transnational' Law," 1 University of California Irvine Law Review 97 (2011)
- "The National Labor Relations Act Legacy: Collective or Individual Dispute Resolution or Not?", 26 ABA Labor & Employment J. 249-266 (2011)
- "The Variable Morality of Constitutional (and Other) Compromises," 38 Pepperdine Law Review 903-914 (2011)
- Book review: "Compromise, Negotiation and Morality" (PDF), 26 Negotiation Journal (Oct. 2010)
- Daily Journal Perspective piece: "A Natural Peacemaking Opportunity"(PDF) with Joseph DiMento
- Prof. Menkel-Meadow's Scholarly Papers on SSRN
In the News
- The Washington Post, Wonk Blog: Prof. Menkel-Meadow comments on fiscal cliff negotiations
- Forbes: Prof. Menkel-Meadow gives advice on settling budget mess
- Huffington Post/History News Network: Professors Menkel-Meadow and Camacho sign petition to change Senate voting rule
Recent & Upcoming Events
- March 21, 2013: CLEANR Guest Speaker Kenneth Feinberg at UCI Law
- March 2, 2013: Harvard Negotiation Law Review Symposium, panelist, "The Future of Dispute Resolution"
- Feb. 19, 2013: CLEANR Literature Series: Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality at UCI Law
- Nov. 8, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Kent Syverud at UCI Law
- Nov. 1, 2012: CLEANR Literature Series: The Death and Life of Great American Cities at UCI Law
- Oct. 2, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Joseph Sax at UCI Law
- Sept. 27, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Dan Farber at UCI Law
- Feb. 25, 2012: Does ADR Work? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Alternative Dispute Resolution, keynote speaker and panelist, Harvard Law School
- Feb. 7, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Richard J. Lazarus at UCI Law
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1974
- Barnard College, Columbia, A.B., magna cum laude, Honors in Sociology, 1971
- Georgetown Law School, 1996-present (and visiting professor 1992, 1994), A. B. Chettle Jr. Chair in Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure (since 2005)
- National University of Singapore, Visiting Professor, 2011
- University of Melbourne, Visiting Professor, 2011
- Haifa University, Visiting Professor, 2011, 2008
- Alberto Hurtado University, Chile, Visiting Professor, 2007
- University of Fribourg (Switz.), Visiting Professor, 2006, 2003
- Harvard Law School, Visiting Professor, 2001
- University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Law, 1979-1998
- Georgetown University Law Center, Visiting Professor, 1992, 1994
- University of Toronto Law School, Distinguished Visiting Professor in Legal Theory, 1990
- Stanford Law School, Visiting Professor, 1990
- University of Pennsylvania, Clinical Professor, 1976-79
- Alternative dispute resolution (mediation, negotiation, arbitration, multi-party dispute resolution), legal ethics and the legal profession, clinical legal education, feminist legal issues, legal education, civil procedure, international dispute resolution, globalization studies, law and social science, socio-legal and empirical studies of law and legal institutions, law and literature, and law and popular culture
- Author or co-author of 10 books, including: Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2005; 2nd ed. 2011); Law and Popular Culture (2007, 2nd ed. 2012); Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving (2006); Mediation: Theory, Policy & Practice (2006); accompanying Teacher’s Manuals, What’s Fair: Ethics for Negotiators (2004); Dispute Processing & Conflict Resolution (2003).
- Editor of Mediation: Theory, Policy and Practice (2000).
- She also has written more than 150 articles in leading academic journals.
- University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Board of Editors, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Arthur Littleton Legal Writing Fellow
- Quinnipiac School of Law, honorary doctor of law, 1995; Southwestern Law School, doctor of law, 2010
- Center for Public Resources, First Prize for Scholarship in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1983, 1990 and 1998
- University of California, Los Angeles, Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1992
- Georgetown, Frank Flegal Teaching Award, 2006
- American Bar Foundation, executive committee and Secretary of the Board of Directors
- CPR-Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in Alternative Dispute Resolution, chair
- Center for Public Resources, Executive Committee
- American Association of Law Schools, past chair, Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution
- American Association of Law Schools, past chair, Section on Law and Social Science and Section on Women in Legal Education
- American Association of Law Schools, past executive committee member, Section on Clinical Education
- She also sits on numerous boards of public interest organizations and the editorial boards of journals in dispute resolution, law and social science, and feminism.
- Community Legal Services, Philadelphia, staff attorney, 1975-77