Biography

Director, Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program; Co-Director, Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative

Janet Martinez focuses her research and consulting on the lawyer’s role in negotiation, domestically and internationally; conflict resolution system design; 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 is a senior consultant at the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Mass., a nonprofit institution whose mission is to improve conflict resolution, and 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 senior counsel for the McKesson Corporation.

Key Works

• Janet Martinez and Lawrence E. Susskind, Parallel Informal Negotiation: An Alternative to Second Track Diplomacy, 5.3 International Negotiation (2000).
• Janet Martinez, Lawrence E. Susskind, and Abraham Chayes, Parallel Informal Negotiation: A New Kind of International Dialogue, 12 Negotiation Journal 19-29 (January 1996).

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Alternate Dispute Resolution: Externship
• Alternate Dispute Resolution: Law, Practice, and Policy
• Conflict Resolution Systems Design
• Negotiation Seminar

Programs

• Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, Director

Publications & Cases

• Stephanie Smith and Jan Martinez, An Analytic Framework for Dispute Systems Design, 14 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 123 (Winter 2009).
• Stephanie Smith and Janet Martinez, Dispute System Diagnosis & Design, 14 Harvard Negotiation Law Review (Spring 2009).
• Janet K. Martinez. A Litigator’s Guide to Effective Use of ADR In California, Oakland, CA: Continuing Education of the Bar, 2005. (ed.)
• Janet Martinez and Lawrence E. Susskind, Parallel Informal Negotiation: An Alternative to Second Track Diplomacy, 5.3 International Negotiation (2000).
• Janet Martinez, Lawrence E. Susskind, and Abraham Chayes, Parallel Informal Negotiation: A New Kind of International Dialogue, 12 Negotiation Journal 19-29 (January 1996).

Affiliations & Honors

Professional Affiliations

• 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