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Bio

Carol L. Izumi is Emerita Professor of Law and an internationally known dispute resolution scholar, teacher, and practitioner with the Center for Dispute Resolution (CNDR). From 2010-2020, Prof. Izumi directed the Mediation Clinic and ADR Externship program. She served as Acting Associate Director of CNDR from 2010-2012. In 2019, Prof. Izumi received the law school鈥檚 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Prof. Izumi is Emerita Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School where she directed the Consumer Mediation Clinic from 1986-2010, and served as Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. In 1999, she co-founded the D.C. Community Dispute Resolution Center to provide mediation in adult misdemeanor cases, juvenile delinquency matters, and police-civilian disputes.

She has published dispute resolution articles and book chapters, including 鈥淚mplicit Bias and the Illusion of Mediator Neutrality鈥�, 34 Wash. U.J.L. & Pol鈥檡 (2011) and 鈥淚mplicit Bias and Prejudice in Mediation鈥�, 70 SMU L. Rev. No. 3 (2017); she has spoken widely on the topic of implicit bias in mediation and law. Prof. Izumi co-authored two editions of a casebook, Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, (Aspen 2001 and 2013).

Prof. Izumi has held leadership positions in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, and the D.C. Bar Attorney-Client Arbitration Board. 听Prof. Izumi was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2003.听 In 2018, Professor Izumi received the William Pincus Award, the AALS鈥檚 highest award in clinical legal education.听 She received Outstanding Community Service awards from the Bethel AME Church in Detroit, Michigan, and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of D.C.

Scholarship

Books

听(Aspen Publishers 2d ed. 2013) (with Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Jerry Kang & Frank H. Wu).

听(Aspen Publishers 2001) (with Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Jerry Kang & Frank H. Wu).

Directory of Dispute Resolution Services Available to Residents of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Area听(George Washington Univ. Law School 1996).

Journal Articles

Implicit Bias and Prejudice in Mediation, 70听SMU L. Rev.听681 (2017).听听

Implicit Bias and the Illusion of Mediator Neutrality, 34听Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y听71 (2010).听

Prohibiting “Good Faith Reports” Under the Uniform Mediation Act: Keeping the Adjudication Camel out of the Mediation Tent, 2003听J. Disp. Resol.听67 (2003) (with Homer C. La Rue).听

Symposium, Standards of Professional Conduct in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1995听J. Disp. Resol.听95 (1995).听

Chapters In Books

The Use of ADR in Criminal and Juvenile Delinquency Cases, in听ADR Handbook for Judges听195 (Donna Stienstra & Susan M. Yates eds., Am. Bar Ass’n section of Alternative Dispute Resolution 2004).听

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

Mediation of Animal Law Disputes: A Case Study,听Animal L. Committee Newsl. (ABA Animal Law Comm., Chi., Ill.), Fall, 2007, at 10.听

It’s Not Academic: Avoiding the Unauthorized Practice of Law in a Mediation Clinic,听FORUM (Nat’l Inst. for Dispute Resolution, D.C.), Jun., 1997.

Dispute Resolution Alternatives: A Growing Option for Business,听Board Trade News, Apr., 1990 (with Michael Lewis).

A Legal Overview for Home Improvement Contractors in the District,听Profit听(Howard Univ. Small Bus. Dev. Ctr., D.C.), no. 4, 1989, at 5 (with Susan Jones).

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center
  J.D., Law

• Oberlin College
  B.A., Undergraduate Studies