Donna Shestowsky was awarded a J.D. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. While at Stanford, she taught courses in legal psychology and established a research lab devoted to the empirical study of juries and dispute resolution processes. During the 2003-2004 academic year she was on the faculty at Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern). At King Hall she teaches Criminal Law, Negotiation Strategy, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and a Seminar in Legal Psychology. She was the 2007 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award.

Her primary research objective is to examine basic assumptions underlying the structure of the legal system and to explore ways in which the judicial system might be improved using the methodological and analytic tools of psychological theory and research. She currently conducts empirical research on disputants involved in civil disputes, and advises courts in the development of court-connected ADR programs. Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, 2003-04;

Visiting Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern), 2003-04;

Instructor, Stanford University, Department of Psychology, 2001-2002 BA, MS (Psychology), Yale University

JD, PhD (Psychology), Stanford University

Special Interests: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Juries, Negotiation Strategy, Legal Psychology, Empirical Study of Legal Procedures

Donna Shestowsky & Jeanne Brett, Disputants' Preferences for Dispute Resolution Procedures: A Longitudinal Pre- versus Post-Experience Study (forthcoming 2008).

Donna Shestowsky, Disputant's Preferences for Dispute Resolution: Why We Should Care and Why We Know So Little, Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. (forthcoming 2008).

Donna Shestowsky, Misjudging: Implications for Dispute Resolution, 7 Nev. L. J. 487 (2007).

Donna Shestowsky, The Psychological Study of Dispute Resolution Processes, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives (David S. Clark ed., 2007).

Donna Shestowsky, The Psychology of Interpersonal Persuasion: Lessons for the Advanced Negotiator, in The Negotiator’s Fieldbook: The Desk Reference for the Experienced Negotiator 361 (Andrea Kupfer Schneider & Christopher Honeyman eds., 2007).

Janice Nadler & Donna Shestowsky, Negotiation, Information Technology, and the Problem of the Faceless Other, in Negotiation Theory and Research 145 (Leigh L. Thompson ed., 2006).

Donna Shestowsky, Procedural Preferences in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Closer, Modern Look at an Old Idea, 10 Psych. Pub. Pol’y & L. 211 (2004).

Donna Shestowsky & Leonard M. Horowitz, How the Need for Cognition Scale Predicts Behavior in Mock Jury Deliberations, 28 Law & Hum. Behav. 305 (2004).

Donna Shestowsky, Improving Summary Jury Trials: Insight from Psychology, 18 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 469 (2003).

Lee Ross & Donna Shestowsky, Contemporary Psychology’s Challenges to Legal Theory and Practice, 97 Nw. U. L. Rev. 108 (2003).

Franklin Strier & Donna Shestowsky, Profiling the Profilers: A Study of the Trial Consulting Profession, Its Impact on Trial Justice and What, If Anything, To Do About It, 1999 Wis. L. Rev. 441 (1999).

Donna Shestowsky, Where is the Common Knowledge? Empirical Support for Requiring Expert Testimony in Sexual Harassment Trials, 51 Stan. L. Rev. 357 (1999).

Donna Shestowsky, Duane T. Wegener & Leandre R. Fabrigar, Need for Cognition and Interpersonal Influence: Individual Differences in Impact on Dyadic Decisions, 74 J. Personality & Soc. Psychol. 1317 (1998).