Janet Martinez

Janet Martinez

Janet Martinez

  • Senior Lecturer in Law
  • Faculty Director, Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program
  • Co-Director, Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative

janmartinez@law.stanford.edu

Assistant(s):
  • Room 326, Crown Quadrangle

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Expertise

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Mediation & Dispute Resolution

Biography

Director, Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program; Co-Director, Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative

Janet Martinez focuses her research and consulting on the lawyer’s role in negotiation, domestically and internationally; conflict resolution system design; facilitation of public disputes, particularly in the fields of international trade and the environment; negotiation and consensus-building training; and negotiation curriculum development for clients in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

In addition to her role as director of the law school’s Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, Professor Martinez is a senior consultant at the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Mass., a nonprofit institution whose mission is to improve conflict resolution, and a consultant at Lax Sebenius, a negotiation consulting firm in Concord, Mass. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2002, she did research, writing, and teaching in various aspects of negotiation at Harvard University’s graduate schools of business, law, and government and was senior counsel for the McKesson Corporation.

Education

  • BS (Bacteriology and Public Health) Washington State University 1973
  • JD Golden Gate University School of Law 1980
  • MPA Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1992
  • PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004

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Affiliations & Honors

  • Senior Consultant, Consensus Building Institute
  • Consultant, LaxSebenius LLC
  • Member, American Society of International Law
  • Member, Association for Conflict Resolution
  • Member, U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
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Policy Practicum: Mediation Confidentiality and Attorney Malpractice in California

The issue of confidentiality is central to contemporary mediation practice, yet raises significant public policy issues. The California Legislature has directed the California Law Revision Commission to analyze “the relationship under current law between mediation confidentiality and attorney malpractice and other misconduct and the purposes for, and impact of, those laws on public protection, professional ethics, attorney discipline, client rights, the willingness of parties to participate in voluntary and mandatory mediation, and the effectiveness of mediation, as well as any other issues that the Commission deems relevant,” with an eye to making recommendations for revising relevant state law.

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News

Award Presentations Planned at Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference: Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution to receive ADR Education Award

Public Information Office, United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit

SAN FRANCISCO ? A distinguished lawyer from Seattle, federal court staff from Los Angeles and the Stanford Law School will be recognized with awards during the 2009 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference at the Hyatt Regency Monterey in Monterey, Calif.

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