Douglas Frenkel

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 work
The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (with James Stark)
TitleMorris Shuster Practice Professor of Law
Spouse(s)Marlene Weinstein

Education and personal life

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]

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
  1. "Erica Frenkel, David Klein". June 18, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. "Penn Law Faculty: Douglas Frenkel L'72, expert on Mediation, Professional Responsibility, Clinical Education, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution". www.law.upenn.edu.
  3. "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.


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