Andrea Kupfer Schneider is a Professor of Law and Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Cardozo School of Law where she teaches a variety of dispute resolution courses, professional responsibility, and international conflict resolution.

 

In 2024, Professor Schneider was awarded the Rubin Theory to Practice Award given by the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) honoring meritorious and long-standing contributions at the nexus of theory, research and practice. 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. And in 2009, Professor Schneider was awarded the Woman of the Year Award by the Wisconsin Law Journal and the Association for Women Lawyers. She was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022 and the Council for Foreign Relations in 2023.

 

Professor Schneider has published numerous articles on negotiation, plea bargaining, negotiation pedagogy, ethics, gender and international conflict. Her books include Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Coming of Age (Oxford University Press 2025) (winner of the 2025 CPR Book Award) and Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles, (Oxford University Press 2021) (winner of the 2022 CPR Book Award) both edited with Art Hinshaw and Sarah Cole; multiple textbooks in the field including Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (with Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Lela Love, Michael Moffitt & Kristen Blankley), Negotiation: Processes for Problem-Solving (with Menkel-Meadow & Love), Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethics (with Menkel-Meadow & Love), Dispute Resolution: Examples & Explanations (with Moffitt & Cole); Negotiating Crime: Plea Bargaining, Problem Solving, and Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context (with Cynthia Alkon); and essay collections including Negotiation Essentials for Lawyers (ABA Book Publishing, 2019) and The Negotiator’s Desk Reference (DRI Press 2017), both co-edited with Chris Honeyman. She also co-authored the book Smart & Savvy: Negotiation Strategies in Academia with her father, David Kupfer and published the 25th anniversary edition of her book Creating the Musée d’Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France.

 

Professor Schneider was previously the director of the nationally ranked DR program at Marquette University Law School in Wisconsin, where she taught ADR, Negotiation, Ethics and International Conflict Resolution for over two decades. In addition to overseeing the ADR program, Professor Schneider was the inaugural director of Marquette University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership.

 

She is a founding editor of Indisputably, the blog for ADR 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. Professor Schneider received her A.B. cum laude from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. She also received a Diploma from the Academy of European Law in Florence, Italy.