For Immediate Release
May 24, 2006

Contact:
 Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for work in Chile during the 2007 spring semester. 

Menkel-Meadow, an international expert on alternative dispute resolution, civil procedure and legal ethics, holds the A.B. Chettle, Jr. Chair in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure at Georgetown Law.  While in Chile, she will lecture and do research on the use of dispute resolution practices as Chile pursues significant law reform efforts in areas ranging from commercial law to family relations and democratic governance. 

At a time when Chile is making considerable strides in legal reform, including the legalization of divorce two years ago, Menkel-Meadow looks forward to promoting arbitration, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution.

"This is a particularly exciting time for Chile," said Menkel-Meadow.  "The country has reinvented itself by enacting a series of new laws and electing a woman as president for the first time in its history.  As new legal regimes are developing, peaceful dispute resolution will be a critically important tool in modernizing the legal system and engaging citizens to participate in government."

Menkel-Meadow will be affiliated with Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago and the Autonomous University of the South in Temuco.

Menkel-Meadow is the author of several books including “Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution: Theory, Policy and Practice" (2003) and the co-author of "Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving" (2006); "Mediation: Practice, Policy and Ethics” (2006); "What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators" (2004); and "Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model" (2004).

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.  Along with other Georgetown Law colleagues, she received the Frank Flegal Teaching Award in 2006 for developing Week One, an international curriculum initiative for first-year law students.

The Fulbright Program, which is administered by the U.S. State Department, seeks to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries, through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills.

About Georgetown Law

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's leading law schools. It has the largest full-time faculty in the nation and is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body. 

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