Oct. 28, 2009

Frenkel

Stark

James H. Stark, professor of law and director of the Mediation Clinic, University of Connecticut School of Law, and Douglas N. Frenkel, the Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, will discuss "Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion" on Friday, Dec. 4, at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Commons in the School of Law Center.

The lecture, which is part of the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop, is open to the public.

Stark has been a clinical law teacher for 35 years, first at the Washington College of Law, American University and since 1979 at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He supervised students in a wide variety of representational matters, including prison legal services, special education and housing and employment discrimination cases, before launching the Mediation Clinic in 1994. He also teaches Negotiation, Evidence and Torts.

Frenkel is the architect of Penn Law's nationally renowned clinical program, having served as Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies from 1980 to 2008. He specializes in alternative dispute resolution generally and mediation in particular. He is the author of innovative teaching materials and videotapes in this field, frequently serves as a mediator in employment, commercial and institutional matters.

Stark and Frenkel co-authored a multimedia book on mediation skills and ethics, the first work of its kind to integrate text and video ("The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text," Aspen Law & Business, 2008).

For more information, please contact Jennifer Brown at 203-582-3246 or jennifer.brown@quinnipiac.edu.