2025 Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution

Andrea Kupfer Schneider is a Professor of Law and Director of the nationally ranked Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Cardozo School of Law where she teaches courses on Dispute Resolution, Ethics, and International Conflict Resolution.  

Professor Schneider has published numerous articles in top law journals on negotiation, plea bargaining, negotiation pedagogy, ethics, gender and international conflict. Her books include Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles, edited with Art Hinshaw and Sarah Cole (Oxford University Press 2021) (winner of the 2022 CPR Book Award); multiple textbooks in the field including Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (4th ed, with Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Lela Love, Michael Moffitt and Kristen Blankley), Negotiation: Processes for Problem-Solving (3rd ed, with Menkel-Meadow & Love), Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethics (3rd ed, with Menkel-Meadow & Love), Dispute Resolution: Examples & Explanations (5th ed, with Moffitt & Sarah Cole); Negotiating Crime: Plea Bargaining, Problem Solving, and Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context (2nd ed, with Cynthia Alkon); and essay collections including Negotiation Essentials for Lawyers (ABA Book Publishing, 2019) and The Negotiator’s Desk Reference (DRI Press 2017), both co-edited with Chris Honeyman. She also co-authored the book Smart & Savvy: Negotiation Strategies in Academia with her father, David Kupfer and published the 25th anniversary edition of her book Creating the Musée d’Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France.

In 2024, Professor Schneider was awarded the Rubin Theory to Practice Award given by the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) honoring meritorious and long-standing contributions at the nexus of theory, research and practice. She was named the 2017 recipient of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work, the highest scholarly award given by the ABA in the field of dispute resolution. And in 2009, Professor Schneider was awarded the Woman of the Year Award by the Wisconsin Law Journal and the Association for Women Lawyers. She was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022 and the Council for Foreign Relations in 2023.

She is a founding editor of Indisputably, the blog for dispute resolution law faculty, and started the Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress annual conferences in 2007. In 2016, she gave her first TEDx talk titled Women Don’t Negotiate and Other Similar Nonsense. Professor Schneider was previously the director of the nationally ranked Dispute Resolution program at Marquette University Law School in Wisconsin, where she taught Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Ethics, International Conflict Resolution, and Gender and the Law for over two decades.  From 2019-2022, Professor Schneider also served as the inaugural director of Marquette University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership. Professor Schneider received her A.B. cum laude from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. She also received a Diploma from the Academy of European Law in Florence, Italy.

About Professor Schneider's Lecture: Hidden Negotiations: From Entry to Equity in the Legal Profession

How do law students identify the law firm best suited to their professional goals? In the Lawrence Lecture, Professor Andrea Kupfer Schneider will present her research highlighting significant differences among law firms and offer a framework of key questions that students can employ to better understand these distinctions. Professor Schneider will then examine the negotiation skills that young lawyers can apply in posing these questions and in advancing their careers within the legal profession.