Senior Associate Dean Shestowsky Gives Address at AALS Works-in-Progress Conference

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Donna Shestowsky delivered the commentary address for the 2025 Best Scholarly Article at the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Conference. The conference was held Sept. 24-25 at the University of Missouri School of Law.

The 2018 recipient of the Best Scholarly Article prize, Shestowsky also is a former chair of the ADR Section, which was named Section of the Year during her tenure.

Donna Shestowsky is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. She holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in psychology and is a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Psychology at UC Davis.  Her main research objective is to examine basic assumptions underlying the structure of the legal system and to explore ways in which the legal system might be improved using the methodological and analytic tools of psychological theory and research.