Professor Shestowsky presents research at ABA conference

  • by Carla Meyer

Professor Donna Shestowsky presented research at the 21st American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference last week in Minneapolis.

Shestowsky’s talk, “Ignorance is Not Bliss: Improving Parties’ Awareness of ADR Options,” was based on a large-scale empirical research project investigating whether parties know about court-sponsored ADR programs available to them.

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.