Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethics, Third Edition

Carrie Menkel-Meadow is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and A.B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution, and Civil Procedure Emerita at Georgetown University Law Center. She is one of the founders of the modern legal dispute resolution field and has been teaching negotiation, mediation, and related subjects for over 35 years.

She has published over 15 books and 200 articles in the field, including Mediation and Its Applications for Good Decision Making and Dispute Resolution (2016); Dispute Resolution Beyond the Adversary Model (3rd ed. 2018); Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving (2nd ed. 2014); Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethics (2nd ed. 2013); What’s Fair: Ethics for Negotiators (2004); and a three-volume edited treatise Complex Dispute Resolution: Foundations, Decision Making, Multi-Party Dispute Resolution and International Dispute Resolution (2012).

She was the first recipient of the American Bar Association’s Award for Scholarly Excellence in Dispute Resolution (2011), for her work in conceptualizing the role of the lawyer as a “problem-solver,” and has won the Center for Public Resources Award for Best Scholarly Article on Dispute Resolution three times (1983, 1991, and 1998). In February 2018, she was awarded the American Bar Foundation’s Award for Outstanding Scholar, recognizing her decades of research in dispute resolution, legal ethics, the legal profession, and legal feminism. She has also won numerous awards for her teaching.

Professor Menkel-Meadow has taught law and dispute resolution to diplomats, lawyers, law students, mediators, government officials, and ordinary citizens in 26 countries (on seven continents). She is an active mediator and arbitrator, as well as a policy and strategic planning facilitator, and has consulted for the World Bank, United Nations, the Federal Judicial Center, federal and state courts, and the International Red Cross on matters of conflict resolution and dispute system design. She has also worked on peace in the Middle East, transnational legal issues in Europe, transitional justice in South America, and new forms of economic cooperation and dispute resolution and legal education in Asia. She has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of disputes in the United States, including commercial, class action, employment, health, asbestos, insurance, intellectual property, arts, and education cases, as well as many general civil litigation matters. She has also mediated and arbitrated cases outside of the United States.