Christine Cimini is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Mediation Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law. She teaches classes on Mediation, Alternative Dispute Resolution- Restorative Justice, and Negotiation and leads the University of Washington School of Law Professional Mediation Skills Training each fall. Professor Cimini designs and trains academic leaders to engage and resolve conflict effectively, providing multiple training courses each academic year.
Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Washington School of Law, Professor Cimini was the Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development and a Professor at Vermont Law School, the Ronald V. Yegge Clinical Director and an Associate Professor at the University of Denver (DU) Sturm College of Law, and a one-year visiting faculty member at Cornell University Law School. She was a Robert M. Cover Fellow in Clinical Teaching at Yale Law School from 1993–1996.
Professor Cimini’s scholarly research focuses on lawyers and social change, access to justice, early conflict intervention and alternative theories of justice. Her articles have been published in a variety of journals including the Stanford Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Maryland Law Review, Rutgers Law Review and Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy.
Professor Cimini and her clinic students at DU received the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Award for Excellence in Public Interest Project for their work addressing the problem of predatory lending in Denver. She served as Co-Chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education and two terms as a member of the board of directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association.
