Douglas N. Frenkel
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Doug Frenkel teaches Mediation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as Clinical Director for nearly three decades. His work in the conflict resolution field began in the early 1980s, when he chaired a national task force that linked law and business school faculty in the development of some of the formative teaching materials in the ADR field. The real case clinical course that he directs was launched in 1986 and has served as a model for others around the country. He also regularly teaches legal ethics and consults with U.S. and overseas law schools on clinical program and simulation course design.
Frenkel has also been a leader in developing audiovisual materials for the law school classroom. The clinical skills, mediation and professional responsibility videos he created or developed with Penn colleagues are among the most widely used teaching tools of their kind.
James H. Stark
Jim 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 has published widely, including Preliminary Reflections on the Establishment of a Mediation Clinic, 2 Clinical L. Rev. 457 (1996), selected for inclusion in Hurder, et. al, Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics (1997). He also teaches Negotiation, Evidence and Torts.
In other capacities, Stark has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Connecticut, as an Editor of the Clinical Law Review, and as the Reporter to the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation and Collaborative Practice (CCDM) Mediation Standards Committee, work that earned him that organization’s Outstanding Service Award in 2001.