Web Seminar on Judicial Ethics

September 22, 2006

Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow

The United States Embassy hosts a web seminar on Judicial Ethics on September 22 at 15:30 Buenos Aires time (2:30 p.m. EDT) with Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow.

The audience will be composed of lawyers, judges, government officials and journalists, with an interest in learning more about how the federal judiciary is administered in the U.S. to ensure the enforcement of codes of ethics against which judges and society can balance actual judicial behavior with the expectations written in the code.

This program will be divided into two segments.  During the first hour, Ms. Menkel-Meadow will give a 30-minute presentation on the subject to be followed by a question and answer session with the audience in Argentina. The second hour of the conference will be devoted to questions posed by viewers on the internet.

The conference will be translated from Washington into Spanish.

Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow Biography

Professor of Law; A.B. Chettle, Jr., Chair in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, Georgetown Law Center. 
Professor Menkel-Meadow joined Georgetown Law Center in 1996 after teaching for 20 years at UCLA Law School, where she had been a professor of law since 1979, serving as well as a professor in the Women's Studies program, Acting Director of the Center for the Study of Women, and Co-Director of UCLA's Center on Conflict Resolution. She has taught as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Theory at the University of Toronto, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and as a clinical professor at the University of Pennsylvania. A national expert in alternative dispute resolution, the legal profession, and legal ethics, clinical legal education, feminist legal theory, and women in the legal profession, Professor Menkel-Meadow has written and lectured extensively in these fields. She is the author of Mediation: Theory, Policy & Practice (2001) and over 60 articles. She has won the Center for Public Resources' First Prize for Scholarship in Alternative Dispute Resolution three times (in 1983, 1990, and 1998). She has also won the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching at UCLA. She currently chairs the CPR-Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in Alternative Dispute Resolution. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation and on the Research Grants Committee of the Law School Admissions Council. She also sits on numerous boards of public interest organizations and the editorial boards of journals in dispute resolution, law and social science and feminism. She has chaired the AALS Sections on Law and Social Science, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Women in Legal Education, and has been on the Executive Committee of the Section on Clinical Education. In addition to her scholarship, research, and teaching, Professor Menkel-Meadow often serves as a mediator and arbitrator in public and private settings and has trained lawyers and mediators in the United States and abroad. She is currently the director of the Georgetown Hewlett Fellowship Program in Conflict Resolution and Problem-Solving.