Melissa Nelken

Bio

Professor Nelken attended Brandeis University, B.A. (1965), Harvard University, M.A. (1967), and the University of Michigan, J.D. (1974). She cofounded and was the Faculty Chair of the UC Law SF Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR). She is the author and coauthor of books and articles on negotiation, and has taught both trial advocacy and negotiation in continuing legal education programs around the country. A practicing psychoanalyst for over 20 years, she has also written on attorney sanctions and on the psychotherapist-patient privilege in federal court.

Professor Nelken lives in Berkeley with her husband, a UC Berkeley professor, and has three adult daughters.

Courses Taught: Negotiation, Mediation, and Law, Psychiatry & the Mental Health System

Education

• Brandeis University
  B.A. 1965

• Harvard University,
  M.A. 1967

• University of Michigan
  J.D. 1974

Selected Scholarship

• Negotiating Classroom Process: Lessons from Adult Learning
  Negotiation Journal 2009

• Negotiation and Psychoanalysis: If I'd Wanted to Learn About Feelings, I Wouldn't Have Gone to Law School
  Journal of Legal Education 1996

• The Impact of Federal Rule 11 on Lawyers and Judges in the Northern District of California
  Judicature 1990

• Sanctions Under Amended Federal Rule 11—Some "Chilling" Problems in the Struggle Between Compensation and Punishment
  Georgetown Law Journal 1986