| Douglas Norman Frenkel |
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| occupation = Law professor| years_active = | era = | employer = University of Pennsylvania Law School| organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works =The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (with James Stark)| style = | height = | television = | title = Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law| term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charge = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = Marlene Weinstein| partner = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}Douglas Norman Frenkel is the Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[1]
Frenkel graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics in 1968, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a J.D. in 1972.[2] [3] He is married to Marlene Weinstein.[1]
Frenkel was a law clerk to Judge Theodore Spaulding, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, from 1972-73.[2] From 1973 to 1978 he was a Staff Managing Attorney for Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2]
He is the Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, having taught at the law school since 1978.[2] Frenkel teaches Mediation, Professional Responsibility, Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation, and Family Law.[2]
Frenkel was the Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies from 1980 to 2008.[2] He specializes in alternative dispute resolution generally, and especially in mediation.[2] [4] [5] His multi-media book, The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (3rd ed., 2018, with James Stark) is a law school skills text.[2] Frenkel’s other major area of expertise is legal ethics, and he was a founding faculty member of the Law School’s Center on Professionalism.[2] Among the articles that he has written are "Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?" (with James Stark), 21 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 1 (2015); "Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion" (with James Stark; Honorable Mention in the 2016 International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Annual Awards), 28 Ohio State J. on Dispute Res. 263 (2013); and "On Trying to Teach Judgment," 12 Legal Education Review 19 (2001).[3] [6] [7] [8]