Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow
Visiting Scholar
A.B. Chettle, Jr. Professor of Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure and Director, Georgetown-Hewlett Program in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving, Georgetown University Law Center; B.A., magna cum laude, Barnard College, Columbia University; J.D., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania; Member, California and Pennsylvania State and District of Columbia Bars
Joined Southwestern: 2006
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Room: BW303
Carrie Menkel-Meadow is a Visiting Scholar at Southwestern and a pioneering legal educator and scholar in the burgeoning field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), as well as civil procedure and legal ethics.
After teaching for 20 years at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, she joined the faculty at Georgetown University Law Center in 1996, where she is the director of the Georgetown-Hewlett Program in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving. In 2005, she was named as the inaugural A.B. Chettle Jr. Professor in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, one of the most prestigious faculty honors at Georgetown. Professor Menkel-Meadow has also taught law at Stanford and Harvard universities, among other law schools.
A member of law review while in law school, Professor Menkel-Meadow is the author of several books and over 100 articles on subjects ranging from dispute and conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, legal procedure, legal theory, legal ethics, feminist theory, law and popular culture and legal education. She is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Legal Education, The International Journal of Law in Context and associate editor of The Negotiation Journal, published by the Harvard Program on Negotiation. An active arbitrator and mediator who has trained judicial professionals all over the world, Professor Menkel-Meadow also consults for the federal courts on issues involving ADR. She chairs the Georgetown-CPR Commission on Ethics and Standards in ADR; was a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the American Bar Foundation for many years; and has chaired the AALS Sections on Law and Social Science, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Women in Legal Education.
Before pursuing an academic career, Professor Menkel-Meadow served as a legal services attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and as an associate at Dechert, Price and Rhoads. She has been honored by the Center for Public Resources and UCLA, and received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Quinnipiac College of Law.
Publications
Books and Chapters
MEDIATION: APPROPRIATE PROCESS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING (with L. Love and A. Schneider; Aspen Publishers, 2006)
NEGOTIATION: PROCESS FOR PROBLEM-SOLVING (with L. Love and A. Schneider; Aspen Publishers, 2006)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION: BEYOND THE ADVERSARIAL MODEL (with L. Love, A. Schneider and J. Sternlight; Aspen Publishers, 2005)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION: BEYOND THE ADVERSARIAL MODEL (with L. Love, A. Schneider and J. Sternlight; Kluwer Law International, 2004)
WHAT’S FAIR: ETHICS FOR NEGOTIATORS (Editor, with M. Wheeler; Jossey-Bass, 2004)
DISPUTE PROCESSING: THEORY, PRACTICE & POLICY (Editor; Ashgate, 2003)
MEDIATION: THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE (Editor; Ashgate, 2001)
NEGOTIATION TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP (with C. Craver; CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, 1998)
"Is there an honest lawyer in the box? Legal Ethics on TV," in LAWYERS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM: LAW AND LAWYERS ON TELEVISION (M. Asimow, ed; ABA Press, 2009)
"Of Process and People: Empirical Studies of Civil Procedure" in LAW'S DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS: NEW FRONTIERS IN LAW'S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (T. Halliday et al., eds.; with B. Garth; forthcoming)
"Ethics, Morality and Professional Responsibility in Negotiation" in DISPUTE RESOLUTION ETHICS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE (P. Bernanrd and B. Garth eds.; ABA, 2002)
"Mediation, Arbitration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution," in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES (N. Smelser & P. Baltes, eds.; Elsevier, 2001)
"Ethics in Alternative Dispute Resolution: New Issues" and "No Answers from the Adversary Conception of Lawers' Responsibilities" in MEDIATION: THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE (Ashgate, 2001); reprinted from 38 SOUTH TEXAS LAW REVIEW 407 (1997)
"The Trouble with the Adversary System in a Postmodern, Multicultural World" in MEDIATION: THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE (Ashgate, 2001), reprinted from 38 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 5 (1996)
"The Many Ways of Mediation: The Transformation of Traditions, Ideologies, Paradigms and Practices" in MEDIATION: THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE (Ashgate, 2001), reprinted from 11 NEGOTIATION JOURNAL 217 (1995)
"Whose Dispute is it Anyway?: A Philosophical and Democratic Defense of Settlement (In Some Cases)" in MEDIATION: THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE (Ashgate, 2001), reprinted from 83 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 2663 (1995)
"The Limits of Adversarial Ethics" in ETHICS IN PRACTICE (D. Rhode, ed.; Oxford Press, 2000)
"The Causes of Cause Lawyering: Toward an Understanding of the Motivation and Commitment of Social Justice Lawyers" in CAUSE LAWYERING: POLITICAL COMMITMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (A. Sarat and S. Scheingold, eds.; Oxford University Press, 1998)
"Will Managed Care Give Us Access to Justice?" in ACHIEVING CIVIL JUSTICE: APPROPRIATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE 1990S (R. Smith, ed.; Legal Action Group, 1996)
"Women's Way of 'Knowing' Law" in KNOWLEDGE DIFFERENCE AND POWER: ESSAYS INSPIRED BY WOMEN'S WAYS OF KNOWING (N. Goldberg, et al., eds.; BasicBooks, 1996)
"Portia Redux: Another Look at Gender, Feminism, and Legal Ethics" in LEGAL ETHICS AND LEGAL PRACTICE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES (S. Parker and C. Sampford, eds.; Clarendon Press, 1995)
