Professor Shestowsky named to ABA advisory committee

Professor Donna Shestowsky has been appointed to the newly formed research advisory committee for the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution.

Shestowsky will serve a three-year term with the committee, which aims to bring science to the delivery of conflict prevention and dispute resolution services, and help develop and share cutting-edge information that will strengthen the Section on Dispute Resolution’s members, their practices, and the profession.

Donna Shestowsky, who has both a law degree and a Ph.D. in psychology, is director of the Lawyering Skills Education Program, a professor of law and a Martin Luther King, Jr., Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, Negotiation Strategy, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and a seminar in Legal Psychology. She was the 2007 recipient of the Law School's Distinguished Teaching Award.