Janet Martinez is Director of the Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, Co-Director of the Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative, and Senior Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where she teaches advanced negotiation, dispute system design and alternative dispute resolution law, practice & policy. Martinez practiced corporate law in San Francisco for ten years before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, she did research, writing, and teaching in various aspects of negotiation at Harvard University's graduate schools of business, law, and government, and completed her Ph.D. at MIT. While in Cambridge, she was Senior Associate for the Consensus Building Institute, a nonprofit provider of dispute resolution services in the public and private sectors, both domestic and international. Martinez’ current research and consulting focus on dispute system design (with Lisa Amsler and Stephanie Smith: Dispute System Design, Stanford University Press forthcoming), sustainable groundwater management in California, public policy negotiation, online dispute resolution, international comparative dispute resolution, and negotiation curriculum development for clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Martinez is also a Senior Advisor with LaxSebenius --The Negotiation Group, in Massachusetts. Martinez holds a B.S. in Bacteriology & Public Health from Washington State University, J.D. from Golden Gate University, Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from MIT.