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Tel: 215.898.4628
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: dfrenkel@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Mediation
- Professional Responsibility
- Clinical Education
- Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Bio
Douglas Frenkel is the architect of Penn Law’s nationally renowned clinical program having served as Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies from 1980 to 2008.
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Douglas Frenkel is the architect of Penn Law’s nationally renowned clinical program having served as Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies from 1980 to 2008. Under his leadership, the program grew to include real-case courses in litigation, transactional representation, mediation, legislation, child advocacy and transnational lawyering. He specializes in alternative dispute resolution generally and mediation in particular. He is the author of innovative teaching materials and videotapes in this field and frequently serves as a mediator in employment, commercial, educational and family matters. His multi-media book, The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (Aspen Law & Business, 2008, with James Stark) is the leading law school skills text in the field and the first work of its kind to integrate text and video. Frenkel’s other major area of expertise is legal ethics, having been a founding faculty member of the Law School’s Center on Professionalism. He regularly teaches courses in legal ethics and consults with lawyers on matters of professional responsibility and lawyer liability.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law (2009- ); Practice Professor of Law (1985-2009); Clinical Director (1980-2009); Lecturer/Clinical Supervisor and Clinical Director (1978-85)
Law Clerk to the Hon. Theodore Spaulding, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (1972-73)
Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, PA - Staff Managing Attorney (1973-78)
Visiting Professor - University of Sydney, Columbia, Fordham, New York Law School
Representative Publications
Book chapter: Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion (with James Stark) (forthcoming 2011)
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THE PRACTICE OF MEDIATION: A VIDEO-INTEGRATED TEXT (with JAMES STARK) (Aspen Law & Business, 2008).
WEST'S PENNSYLVANIA FORMS AND COMMENTARY - Editor and contributing author of a multi-volume set of practitioner-oriented texts with forms in areas such as Civil and Criminal Procedure, Domestic Relations, Employment Law, Business Organizations, Debtor-Creditor, etc. (in collaboration with leading practitioners).
Words That Heal, 140(6) ANNALS OF INTERNAL MED. 482 (March 16, 2004) (editorial essay, with C. Liebman).
On Trying to Teach Judgment, 12 LEGAL EDUC. REV. 19 (2001).
Ethics: Beyond the Rules, 67 FORDHAM L. REV. 697 et seq. (1998) law-social science study of determinants of conduct of large law firm litigators (with collaborators).
Work/Life Decisions in Law Practice, in INTEGRATING WORK AND LIFE: THE WHARTON RESOURCE GUIDE, Friedman, DeGroot and Christensen, eds. (Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer) (1998)
Videotape: The Mediation Process: A Construction Case Study - (mediation skills teaching materials set in a commercial dispute, with teachers manual) (published by American Arbitration Association, 1990).
Videotape: Who's In Charge? The Lawyer as Counselor: Process and Ethical Dimensions - (videotaped teaching materials on the client counseling process in litigation) (published by University of Pennsylvania Center on Professionalism).
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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
Consultant to U.S. and foreign law schools on clinical program and simulation course design, ethics teaching
Ethics Advisor, National Disability Rights Network
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