JANET MARTINEZ is Director of the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution and Senior Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where she teaches advanced negotiation, dispute system design, and alternative dispute resolution law, policy and practice. Martinez is also Senior Advisor with LaxSebenius --The Negotiation Group, in Massachusetts. Martinez practiced corporate law in San Francisco for ten years before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, she did research, writing, and teaching in various aspects of negotiation at Harvard University's graduate schools of business, law, and government, and completed her Ph.D. at MIT. She has conducted training courses for public and private clients. Martinez’ current research and consulting focus on dispute system design (Dispute System Design forthcoming with Stanford University Press), online dispute resolution, sustainable groundwater management, and international comparative dispute resolution.