Professor Stark is director of the Law School's Mediation Clinic. He has been a clinical law teacher for more than 35 years, first at the Washington College of Law, American University and since 1979 at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He supervised students in a wide variety of representational matters, including prison legal services, special education and housing and employment discrimination cases, before launching the Mediation Clinic in 1994. He also teaches Negotiation and Evidence.[ and Torts.] He has published widely, including "Preliminary Reflections on the Establishment of a Mediation Clinic," 2 Clinical L. Rev. 457 (1996), selected for inclusion in Hurder, et. al, Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics (1997).

 

In other capacities, Professor Stark has served as associate dean for academic affairs at UConn Law, as an editor of the Clinical Law Review, as chair of the Association of American Law School's Committee on ADR Clinics and as the reporter to the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation and Collaborative Practice (CCDM) Mediation Standards Committee, work that earned him that organization's Outstanding Service Award in 2001.