New Faculty Mentor John Dean Receives Teaching Award
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) is proud to announce that Professor John Dean (’79) has been appointed to serve as a CNDR Senior Faculty Mentor!
In this role, Professor Dean will be a point of contact and provide support for other adjunct faculty teaching dispute resolution at CNDR. Among other things, he will train and support new adjunct faculty, facilitate conversations among all adjuncts about pedagogy and best practices, share teaching resources, and generally help to foster a sense of community among the adjuncts.
With decades of experience teaching dispute resolution at UC Law SF, Professor Dean brings a wealth of knowledge that will be of great value to the teaching team. Thank you, Professor Dean, for your continued commitment to teaching and to CNDR!
Professor Dean has also been awarded a 2024 Emerita Chancellor & Dean Mary Kay Kane Award for Teaching Excellence. The only other recipient in the part time faculty category was the Hon. Marsha Berzon, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The selection committee, which included Chancellor & Dean David Faigman, had this to say about Professor Dean:
During his four-decade career, Professor Dean has regularly served as an instructor or panelist in continuing legal education programs for lawyers with a focus on negotiation, mediation, ADR, and ethics, including programs sponsored or endorsed by the ABA, Practicing Law Institute, and various state bar organizations. For the past two decades, he has been a pillar of CNDR’s teaching community. Among other things, he has taught hundreds of law students how to negotiate, earning rave reviews each semester for his ability to make the material engaging, connect the skills he is teaching to practice narratives, and provide clear and kind feedback. As one student noted, Professor Dean “is an absolute rock star!” Like other award winners this year, his teaching and law school service work are remarkable for their longevity, consistency, breadth, depth and impact. The selection committee was delighted to have this opportunity to recognize and honor Professor Dean’s decades of teaching excellence in the broadest sense – building a teaching community dedicated to the highest standards.