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Alexandra Carter is a Clinical Professor at Columbia Law School, specializing in Law Education and Professional Responsibility. She obtained her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2003 and a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1997. Carter leads the Law School’s Mediation Clinic, having established a partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to provide mediation training to the UN's New York diplomatic corps. She focuses on alternative dispute resolution and trains judicial administrative leaders in New York State to resolve civil litigations through mediation instead of court proceedings. In recognition of her innovative teaching methods, she received the Presidential Award for Teaching in 2019. A Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, Carter previously worked as a private equity analyst at Goldman Sachs and as a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore after clerking for a U.S. District Court. Her book, 'Ask 10 Questions Negotiate Anything,' published in 2020, became a bestseller and is notable for being the first negotiation book authored solely by a woman to make the Wall Street Journal list.
Columbia Law School • New York, NY
Director of the Law School's Mediation Clinic, training students in alternative dispute resolution and negotiation strategies.
Juris Doctor (J.D.) program. While 'Department of Law' is not a formal administrative division for admissions, this entry covers the primary J.D. program.