Andrea Kupfer Schneider

Andrea Schneider is a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a Professor of Law and the Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Cardozo Law School. Schneider was the previous director of the nationally ranked dispute resolution program at Marquette University Law School in Wisconsin, where she taught Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Ethics and International Conflict Resolution for over two decades. In addition to overseeing the DR program, Schneider was the inaugural director of the university’s Institute for Women’s Leadership.

In 2009, Schneider was awarded the Woman of the Year Award by the Wisconsin Law Journal and the Association for Women Lawyers. She was named the 2017 recipient of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work, the highest scholarly award given by the ABA in the field of dispute resolution. She was awarded the Rubin Theory-to-Practice award by the International Association for Conflict Management in 2024.

Schneider’s recently published works include: Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (with Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Lela Love, and Michael Moffitt); Negotiation: Processes for Problem-Solving (with Menkel-Meadow & Love); Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethics (with Menkel-Meadow & Love); Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles, edited with Art Hinshaw and Sarah Cole (Oxford University Press 2021); and Negotiating Crime: Plea Bargaining, Problem Solving, and Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context with Cynthia Alkon (Carolina Academic Press 2019). 

Schneider has published numerous articles on negotiation, plea bargaining, gender, negotiation pedagogy, ethics, and international conflict. She is a founding editor of Indisputably, the blog for DR law faculty, and started the Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress annual conferences in 2007. In 2016, she gave her first TEDx talk titled, "Women Don’t Negotiate and Other Similar Nonsense."