Board of Directors

Craig McEwen

Craig McEwen is Dean for Academic Affairs and the Daniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at Bowdoin College where he has taught since 1975. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1967 and earned his M. A. (1969) and Ph. D. (1975) from Harvard University. He taught at Morgan State College from 1968-1972. His interest in ADR began in 1978 when he was trained as a mediator and in the early 1980's he served as a small claims and domestic relations mediator for Maine's Court Mediation Service. For the past twenty years he has done empirical research and written about mediation and dispute resolution in varied settings: small claims, community, divorce, civil courts, corporations, administrative agencies, public policy, and appellate courts. With Nancy Rogers, he is the co-author of Mediation: Law, Policy and Practice. He has served on the editorial board of the Dispute Resolution Magazine and has consulted with courts throughout the United States about dispute resolution programs. At present he is completing a book titled Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice.