James H. Stark

James H. Stark, Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic. Jim Stark 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). Most recently, he is the co-author, with Doug Frenkel, of The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (Aspen Law and Business 2008).

In other capacities, Professor Stark has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Connecticut, 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.

Professor Stark is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia Law School. He and his wife, Nancy Backer Stark, live in Cromwell, CT and have one daughter.