Event Description:
Co-sponsored by
CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College
Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York
for zoom link, email mvolpe@jjay.cuny.edu
Waiting room opens at 8am, talk starts at 8:30am
Where have all the flowers gone? Changes in ADR since its founding and what it means for us now
This
discussion will focus on the foundational values of mediation,
negotiation, and modern hybrid forms of dispute resolution, as these
processes have been institutionalized in courts and contracts, and
now much has changed with online dispute resolution. What does this mean
for individual practices, for disputants, and for the field in general?
Is it "adaptable" dispute resolution (accessible, no longer
"alternative" but still aspirational)?
Carrie Menkel-Meadow is
a Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of
California, Irvine Law School. She is one of the founders of the field
of alternative dispute resolution, teaching mediation, negotiation,
arbitration, and many other courses in international dispute resolution
since the early 1980s. She is the author, most recently, of Very Short
Introduction to Negotiation (Oxford University Press, 2022) and 20 other
books (several leading texts in Negotiation, Mediation, and ADR with
Lela Love and Andrea Kupfer Schneider and others, and over 200 articles
in dispute resolution, legal ethics, feminist legal theory, socio-legal
studies, legal education and law, and popular culture. She has been a
mediator and arbitrator for 40 years, doing mass torts, commercial
litigation, employment, health care, civil rights, class actions,
intellectual property, and education disputes all over the United States
and abroad. She has taught in 25 countries and has received honorary
doctorates from American and European universities. She has consulted on
dispute system design for the World Bank, the United Nations, the
Smithsonian Institution, the federal courts and various federal
agencies, and the International Red Cross. She was Chair of the
Georgetown-CPR Commission on Ethics and Standards for Dispute Resolution
which drafted ethics codes and rules for both individual professional
and provider organizations.
She
is a Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College,
Columbia University, and an honors graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania Law School where she was a member of the Law Review
editorial board. She began her career as a poverty and civil rights
lawyer in Philadelphia and as an academic and clinician has taught at
the law schools of UCLA, UCI, Georgetown, Stanford, Harvard and Leuven
(Belgium), Haifa, Kings College (London), National University of
Singapore, Universidad de Salvador and UBA (Argentina), Alberto Hurtado
(Chile), INCAE (Central America) and was director of Georgetown's Center
for Transnational Legal Studies in London. She has won awards for her
scholarship from the American Bar Foundation, the American Bar
Association (Section of Dispute Resolution), and for her teaching from
UCLA, Georgetown, and the Southern California Mediation Association,
among others. |
