C. J. Larkin
Administrative Director of ADR Programs
and Senior Lecturer in Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 556
Phone: (314) 935-4125
E-mail: larkin@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Jan Houf - (314) 935-6468
- Curriculum Vitae [view] available soon
(For the most recent list of publications and activities, please see the current CV.) - Publications [view]
- Trainings
Better Business Bureau Mediation Training 2006 [view] - Activities [view]
In the News
"Mediation Beyond Borders" Radio Interview - March 5, 2009 - view website
[click here] for Audio of Interview Part 1
[click here] for Audio of Interview Part 2
[click here] for Audio of Interview Part 3
[click here] for Audio of Interview Part 4
Mediation Project Assists Ethnic Communities [view]
Nepali Delegation Observing ADR Techniques [view]
Larkin Named to State Bar Complaint Resolution Board [view]
Community Mediation in the Villages of Nepal [view]
Courses Taught
Alternative Dispute Resolution Theory & Practice
Mediation Theory & Practice
Civil Rights and Community Justice Clinic
Trainer and Mediation supervisor, ABA-ADR Representation in Mediation Competition, Advisor
Education
B.A., 1979, Millsaps College.
J.D., 1983, University of Missouri – Columbia
M.A., 1995, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Profile
Professor Larkin has an extensive legal background as a public defender, appellate attorney, bank counsel, family lawyer and guardian ad litem. She has served as a lobbyist and as political staff for a county elected official and U.S. Senate party nominee. Professor Larkin teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution Theory and Practice, Mediation Theory and Practice and is Clinic Mediator for the Civil Rights and Community Justice Clinic. She is a frequent CLE trainer in civil and family mediation.
Professor Larkin has performed over 400 mediations in the areas of family, land use, employment, personal injury, attorney-client, juvenile victim-offender, and community/neighborhood disputes. Larkin is an experienced CLE trainer with over 700 hours of teaching experience. In 1992-1994, she was the director of DARES, a land use and development mediation service. In 1997, Professor Larkin founded and directed Community Mediation Services, which provided mediation services for neighborhood and family disputes. She has worked in intercultural conflict resolution leadership training, most recently for the Ethiopian Community Association of Missouri’s Workshop on Conflict and Peacemaking Across Cultures, co-sponsored by the International Institute and Washington University School of Law. Professor Larkin provides conflict resolution consultation and training for St. Louis immigrant-refugee agencies, such as the International Institute St. Louis, the African Mutual Assistance Association of Missouri and the Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma. In spring 2004, she was selected as a cultural competence trainer on Arab, Muslim and Sikh Americans for the United States Department of Justice’s Community Relations Services.
Professor Larkin is one of the founding members of and consultant/trainer for St. Louis Partnership for Community Mediation, a multi-agency collaboration seeking to provide mediation training and services to local government, the police and neighborhood leaders in the Greater St. Louis area. She is the co-writer and spokesperson for a 27-minute educational video on Community Mediation, produced by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
Professor Larkin is a Vice-Chair of the Missouri Bar’s ADR committee and serves as trainer and mediator for the Missouri Bar Association. She has served as a primary trainer in civil mediation and family mediation with the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. Larkin is a practitioner member of ACR (the Association for Conflict Resolution) and the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution section. Professor Larkin serves on the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute Advisory Board.
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