Ellen Waldman
Professor of Law
LL.M., University of Virginia in Mental Health Law, with an emphasis in Conflict Resolution;
J.D., New York University;
B.A., Brown University, magna cum laude
Telephone: 619.374.6919
Email: ellenw@tjsl.edu
Prior to law school, Professor Waldman taught film and English at the American International School in Israel.
Following law school, Professor Waldman clerked for the Honorable Myron Bright of the Eighth Circuit in Fargo, North Dakota, and joined a litigation firm in Washington, D.C., specializing in insurance defense. While practicing in Washington, D.C., Professor Waldman received mediation training and subsequently was awarded a scholarship in 1990 to pursue an LL.M. in this area. While pursuing her LL.M. degree, she was a fellow at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy in Charlottesville, Virginia. The following year she served as a fellow at the medical ethics department at the University of Virginia Medical School and directed a grant awarded by the Virginia Institute for the Humanities to educate hospital staff and patients about patient rights and principles of biomedical ethics. Prior to law school, Professor Waldman taught film and English at the American International School in Israel. A member of the Thomas Jefferson faculty since 1992, Professor Waldman founded and supervises the school’s mediation program, which affords students an opportunity to mediate disputes in small claims court. Additionally, she directs a government-sponsored grant that provides for student exposure to Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques and mentoring within the ADR community. Professor Waldman speaks, trains and publishes in the areas of mediation and medical ethics.
Scholarship
Mediation at the End of Life: Getting Beyond the Limits of the Talking Cure, 23 J. Dis. Res. 143 (2007) Reconciliation and Forgiveness in Negotiation, in The Negotiator's Field Book (Honeyinan and Schneider)(2006) Cultural Priorities Revealed: The Development and Regulation of Assisted Reproduction in the United States and Israel, Health Matrix (2006) The Concept of Justice in Mediation: A Psychobiography, 6 Cardozo J. of Conflict Resol. (2005) Eyes Wide Shut: Erasing Women’s Experience from the Clinic to the Courtroom, 28 Harv J. of L. & Gender (2005) (with Marybeth Herald) Book Review, Peter, D. Jacobson, Strangers in the Night: Law and Medicine in the Managed Care Era (New York: Oxford University Press: 2002) 29 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 1241 (2004) The Parent Trap: Uncovering the Myth of "Coerced Parenthood" in Frozen Embryo Disputes, 53 Amer. U. L. Rev 102 (2004) Healing Hearts or Righting Wrongs? A Meditation on the Goals of "Restorative Justice," 25 Hamline J of Publ L. and Pol'y 355 (2004) San Diego Moveable Feast: Competition in Cooperation-Building (With Chris Honeyman, et al), 5 Cardozo J. of Conflict Resol. 173 (2004) King Solomon in the Age of Assisted Reproduction, 24 T.Jefferson L. Rev. 217 (2002) Credentialing Approaches: The Slow Movement Toward Skills-Based Testing Continues, Disp. Resol. Mag., Fall 2001, at 14-16, 21 Disputing Over Embryos: Of Contracts and Consents, 32 Ariz. St. L.J. 897 (2000), reprinted in Rights and Resources (Int’l Library of Medicine, Ethics & Law) (Frances H. Miller, ed., Ashgate, 2003) Substituting Needs For Rights in Mediation: Therapeutic or Disabling?, 5 Psych., Public Pol'y & L.1103 (1999) Therapeutic Jurisprudence/Preventive Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Substituting Needs for Rights in Mediation: Therapeutic or Disabling?, 5 Psych. Pub. Pol'y & L. 1103,1111-13 (1999) Family Law Conundrums in Assisted Reproduction, 21 Whitter L. Rev. 451 (1999) The Evaluative-Facilitative Debate in Mediation: Applying the Lens of Therapeutic Jurisprudence, 82 Marq. L. Rev. 155 (1998) Identifying the Role of Social Norms in Mediation: A Multiple Model Approach, 48 Hastings L.J. 703 (1997) The Challenge of Certification: How to Ensure Mediator Competence While Preserving Diversity, 30 U.S.F. L. Rev. 723 (1996) Role of Legal Norms in Divorce Mediation: An Arguent for Inclusion, 1 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 87, 96 n 32, 141 (1993)
List of Works
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Subjects include:
Bioethics, Mediation Theory & Skills, Torts.
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