On March 4th, 2022, the Texas A&M Law Review and the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program will co-host a symposium titled The Renaissance Woman of Dispute Resolution: Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s Contributions to New Directions in Feminism, Ethics, and ADR. We were honored to have a conversation with Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow, the Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at UC Irvine and one of the preeminent scholars and founders of the field of dispute resolution, as a bit of a preview to what we are sure will be an amazing event this spring!

• Part 1: What is Not Mediatable 🎦
  • Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow discusses what is not mediatable, a concept she raises in her chapter, "When Should I Be in the Middle? I’ve Looked at Life from Both Sides Now," in Evolution of a Field: Personal Histories in Dispute Resolution (Gadlin & Welsh, eds., 2020).

• Part 2: Integrating Dispute Resolution into Legal Education 🎦
  • Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow speaks about the conflict between preparing students for the bar exam and introducing students to alternative career paths, a topic she addresses in "Crisis in Legal Education or the Other Things Law Students Should be Learning and Doing," 45 McGeorge L. Rev. 133 (2013).

• Part 3: Why Diversity Matters in Law Schools 🎦
  • Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow speaks about diversity and inclusion in law schools and shares her advice for new scholars, based in part on her own experience as a junior faculty member going in a new interdisciplinary direction and trying to find a publisher for one of her foundational articles, "Toward Another View of Legal Negotiation: The Structure of Problem Solving," 31 UCLA L. Rev. 754 (1984).