Douglas Norman Frenkel is the Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[1]

Douglas Norman Frenkel
Alma mater
OccupationLaw professor
EmployerUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School
Notable workThe Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (with James Stark)
TitleMorris Shuster Practice Professor of Law
SpouseMarlene Weinstein

Education and personal life edit

Frenkel graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics in 1968, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a J.D. in 1972.[2][3] He is married to Marlene Weinstein.[1]

Legal career edit

Frenkel was a law clerk to Judge Theodore Spaulding, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, from 1972-73.[2] From 1973 to 1978 he was a Staff Managing Attorney for Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2]

He is the Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, having taught at the law school since 1978.[2] Frenkel teaches Mediation, Professional Responsibility, Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation, and Family Law.[2]

Frenkel was the Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies from 1980 to 2008.[2] He specializes in alternative dispute resolution generally, and especially in mediation.[2][4][5] His multi-media book, The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (3rd ed., 2018, with James Stark) is a law school skills text.[2] Frenkel’s other major area of expertise is legal ethics, and he was a founding faculty member of the Law School’s Center on Professionalism.[2] Among the articles that he has written are "Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?" (with James Stark), 21 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 1 (2015); "Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion" (with James Stark; Honorable Mention in the 2016 International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Annual Awards), 28 Ohio State J. on Dispute Res. 263 (2013); and "On Trying to Teach Judgment," 12 Legal Education Review 19 (2001).[3][6][7][8]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Erica Frenkel, David Klein". The New York Times. June 18, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Penn Law Faculty: Douglas Frenkel L'72, expert on Mediation, Professional Responsibility, Clinical Education, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution". www.law.upenn.edu.
  3. ^ a b "DOUGLAS NORMAN FRENKEL"
  4. ^ Golann, Dwight; Folberg, Jay (2016). Mediation: The Roles of Advocate and Neutral. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. ISBN 9781454876021 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Douglas Frenkel L'72 on The Practice of Mediation" – via www.youtube.com.
  6. ^ "Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?", (with James Stark), 21 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 1 (2015).
  7. ^ "Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion", (with James Stark), 28 Ohio State J. on Dispute Res. 263 (2013).
  8. ^ "2016 Annual Award Winners". www.cpradr.org. CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution.