For Immediate Release
March 1, 2005

Contact:
Elissa Free, (202) 662-9500

Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Georgetown Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff is pleased to announce the appointment of Georgetown Law Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow to the newly established A.B. Chettle, Jr. Chair in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure. She will be formally installed in an inauguration ceremony at the Law Center on April 25.

"As a pioneer and leading scholar in the fields of conflict resolution, negotiation and mediation, Professor Menkel-Meadow is the perfect person to hold this important new Chair," Aleinikoff said.  "Mr. Chettle's generosity will benefit the legal profession, the Law Center and generations of Georgetown students."

Chettle was a prominent attorney and partner in the firm of Chettle & Valentine for more than 20 years. A resident of Redondo Beach, Calif., for more than 35 years, Chettle was an active member of his community, serving as chairman emeritus and lifetime board member of the Southern California Region of American Red Cross Blood Services, sitting as judge pro-tem for the South Bay Municipal Court in Torrance, Calif., and serving as pro-bono counsel to police officers and firefighters from the community. He was also a longtime friend of Georgetown, having received his B.S. from the University in 1959, his and J.D. and LL.M from the Law Center in 1962 and 1964, respectively. 

Menkel-Meadow, who is also the director of the Hewlett-Georgetown Program in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving, is a national expert in the areas of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), civil procedure, the legal profession, legal ethics, clinical legal education, feminist legal theory, and women in the legal profession. Additionally, she is Chair of the Center for Public Resources (CPR)- Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Menkel-Meadow has written and lectured extensively in her field and has been recognized with many honors, including the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution First Prize for Scholarship in ADR (three times) and the Rutter Prize for Excellence in Teaching at UCLA Law School.  She also received the Georgetown Law Center’s staff appreciation award for Faculty Member of the Year in 1998.

She is the author of Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution: Theory, Policy and Practice (2003), and co-author of What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators (2004, with Michael Wheeler), Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2004, with Lela Love, Andrea Schneider and Jean Sternlight), Negotiation: Beyond the Adversarial Model (with Andrea Schneider and Lela Love, 2005), Mediation: Beyond the Adversarial Model (with Lela Love and Andrea Schneider, 2005) and editor of Mediation: Theory, Policy and Practice (2000).

Menkel-Meadow has authored several other books and more than 100 articles on subjects such as dispute and conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, legal procedure, legal theory, legal ethics, feminist theory, law and literature and popular culture, and legal education. She currently serves as co-editor-in-chief (with Georgetown’s Mark Tushnet) of the Journal of Legal Education, the International Journal of Law in Context, and as associate editor of the Negotiation Journal, which is published by the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

In addition to her scholarship and teaching, Menkel-Meadow has trained lawyers and mediators on five continents and is herself an active arbitrator and mediator in both private and public matters. She serves on the board of the American Bar Foundation, on the executive committee of the Center for Public Resources, and as a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators.   

Menkel-Meadow joined Georgetown Law Center in 1996 after teaching for 20 years at UCLA Law School. She has also taught at the law schools of Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), York University and Temple University where she was the first Phyllis Beck Distinguished Chair.  She received her bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) from Barnard College and her J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  She was awarded an honorary doctor of laws (LL.D) from Quinnipiac College of Law in 1995.

 

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