IRVINE, Calif. (Sept. 26, 2023) — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is pleased to announce that UCI Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law Carrie Menkel-Meadow won the California Lawyers Association (CLA) – Litigation Section’s 2023 ADR Hall of Fame Award. The award is presented annually for distinguished service in the promotion or development of alternative dispute resolution or for significant contributions or impact in the field of alternative dispute resolution. The CLA presented the award to Professor Menkel-Meadow during the CLA Annual Meeting in San Diego.
“I am deeply honored to receive this award from the California Lawyers Association,” said Prof. Menkel-Meadow. “My own career in practicing and teaching mediation and negotiation began in California in the early 1980s and it is a great honor to see the field flourish as lawyers realize the many advantages of pursuing interest-based dispute resolution.”
“Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s award from the California Lawyers Association is a testament to her trailblazing work in the dispute resolution field,” said UCI Law Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law Austen Parrish. “Her pioneering scholarship and decades of service as an expert in the field have enriched the dispute resolution landscape on a global scale. We’re proud to see her earn this well-deserved recognition.”
Prof. Menkel-Meadow is a Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor at UCI Law, and A.B. Chettle Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, Emerita at Georgetown University Law Center. She was the Faculty Director of Georgetown’s Hewlett Program in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving, and also the Faculty Director of the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London.
A founder of the field of “Alternative/Appropriate” Dispute Resolution, Prof. Menkel-Meadow has authored or edited over 20 books and over 200 articles in the fields of dispute resolution, legal ethics, legal feminism, socio-legal studies, civil procedure and legal education. Most recently she is the author of “Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford University Press 2022), and co-authored texts on dispute resolution, negotiation, mediation and international dispute resolution.
In 2022, the Texas A&M Law Review held a symposium and published a festschrift in Prof. Menkel-Meadow’s honor titled, “The Renaissance Woman of Dispute Resolution: Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s Contributions to New Directions in Feminism, Ethics, and ADR.” In the festschrift, her work as “one of the most influential founders of the field of dispute resolution” is honored, and the contributors reflect on “her prolific writing on dispute resolution — negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and the variants of these major processes….”
Prof. Menkel-Meadow has been awarded several honorary doctorate degrees for her pioneering work in dispute resolution and feminism, both in the United States and Europe. She was honored with the first ever Outstanding Scholar in Dispute Resolution award by the American Bar Association (2011) and the 2018 Outstanding Scholar Award by the American Bar Foundation for her work in dispute resolution and the legal profession. She was awarded Best Article Prize three times (1983, 1991 and 1998) by the Center for Public Resources for her scholarship in negotiation, mediation and dispute resolution.
Prof. Menkel-Meadow is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Civil Mediators. She has taught in 25 countries and also frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator in both public and private settings. She received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Barnard College, Columbia University. She began her career as a poverty-civil rights lawyer and as clinical professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and has taught at the law schools of the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Stanford, Harvard, and many law schools in Europe, Asia and South America.
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