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Mediate.com Podcast Episode 24: Negotiation Ethics, International Dispute Resolution with Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Mediators, be sure to take notes on this episode as Veronica talks to one of the founders of the modern legal dispute resolution field, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, about negotiation ethics, international dispute resolution, and online mediation.   

Carrie is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and A.B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure Emerita at Georgetown University Law Center.  Episode highlights include:

  • What it means to approach mediation as a “sensibility”
  • The importance of negotiation ethics for mediators, including discussion of a hypothetical that many mediators have probably faced ‘in the mediation room’
  • What a “competent” mediator looks like
  • Examples of what mediation is/is not across the World
  • Online mediation–Where it works and what the challenges are

Carrie’s Faculty Profile Page

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Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow

Carrie Menkel-Meadow, who is also the director of the Hewlett-Georgetown Program in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving, is a national expert in the areas of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), civil procedure, the legal profession, legal ethics, clinical legal education, feminist legal theory, and women in the legal profession. Additionally,… MORE >

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Veronica Cravener

Veronica Cravener is a mediator and trainer for Mediate to Achieve, LLC, based in Columbus, Ohio, USA.  She has mediated more than 500 disputes across areas such as landlord-tenant, contracts, consumer-business, personal injury, neighbors, individual disputes over money, and post-employment disputes.  She is experienced at mediating by text message in… MORE >

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