Carrie Menkel-Meadow

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Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Born1949 (age 7475)
Nationality American
Alma materBarnard College
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Occupation(s) Academic, lawyer
Employer(s)University of California, Irvine School of Law
Known forLegal Scholarship on Dispute Resolution and Negotiation.

Carrie Menkel-Meadow is an American lawyer and scholar of dispute resolution. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Outstanding Scholar Award by the American Bar Foundation. [1] The University of Chicago Law Review listed Menkel-Meadow as one of the most cited scholars of Critical Race Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence. [2]

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Early life and education

Menkel-Meadow grew up in Queens, New York. She graduated with an A.B. in sociology, magna cum laude from Barnard College in 1971 and earned her J.D. cum laude from University of Pennsylvania Law School. [3]

Career

Menkel-Meadow was a Fulbright Scholar in 2007. She is a Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine School of Law [3] and the A.B. Chettle, Jr. Professor of Law, Emerita at the Georgetown University Law Center. From 1979 to 1999, Menkel-Meadow was a Professor at UCLA School of Law. [4]

Menkel-Meadow is the author of Mediation and Its Applications for Good Decision Making and Dispute Resolution (2016); Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving (2nd.ed 2014); Mediation: Theory, Policy & Practice (2nd ed. 2013); Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2nd ed. 2011); and Dispute Processing & Conflict Resolution (2003). [5]

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References

  1. American Bar Foundation website. "Carrie Menkel-Meadow to Receive Outstanding Scholar Award from the Fellows", 25 January 2018. Accessed 11 October 2018.
  2. "The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited | The University of Chicago Law Review". lawreview.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
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