Janet Martinez
- Senior Lecturer in Law, Emerita
- Room 326, Crown Quadrangle
Expertise
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Mediation & Dispute Resolution
Biography
Former Director, Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative
Janet Martinez focuses her research and consulting on the lawyer’s role in negotiation, domestically and internationally; dispute system design; online dispute resolution; 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 serves on the board of the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Mass., a nonprofit institution whose mission is to improve conflict resolution, and is 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 previously senior counsel for the McKesson Corporation. With Amsler and Smith, her book Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing and Resolving Conflict, was published by Stanford University Press, 2020.
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
Related Organizations
Courses
- Advanced Negotiation: Environmental Policy
- Directed Professional Writing
- Directed Research
- Discussion (1L): Conflict Management Design
- Externship, Special Circumstances
- Negotiation
- Negotiation on the Ground: Discussions at the Intersection of Theory and Practice
- Policy Practicum: Blue Foods for Indonesia: A Human & Planetary Health Action Lab
- Policy Practicum: San Francisco Human Rights Commission Reparations Project
- Policy Practicum: Stanford Conflict Resolution Lab
- Policy Practicum: The Outlaw Ocean 3.0
- Redesigning Dispute Systems
- TGR: Dissertation
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
Policy Practicums
Key Works
News
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