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Douglas Frenkel

Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law, Director of Mediation Clinic

Douglas Frenkel is the architect of Penn Carey 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. 

Education

  • JDPenn1972
  • BSPennsylvania1968

Courses Taught

  • Mediation| Professional Responsibility| Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation| Negotiating| Family Law

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Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion, 28 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 263 (2013) (with James H. Stark)

THE PRACTICE OF MEDIATION: A VIDEO-INTEGRATED TEXT (with JAMES STARK) (Wolters Kluwer 3d ed. 2018).

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).