Biographical Sketch
Before joining the full-time clinical law faculty in 1986, Professor Izumi served as law clerk to Judge Harriett R. Taylor of the D.C. Superior Court; specialized in civil litigation as an associate in a Washington, D.C., firm; and was assistant director of a Washington public interest organization.

Dean Izumi’s clinical programs at the Law School have been in the areas of consumer law and dispute resolution, including the Consumer Litigation Clinic, Consumer Mediation Clinic, and the Community Dispute Resolution Center Project. She also has taught trial practice and an academic course on mediation. Her teaching and research interests include: consumer law, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and Asian-Americans and the law.

Dean Izumi has written articles on dispute resolution and she co-authored, Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (2001). She is actively involved in dispute resolution activities as a consumer arbitrator, mediator, and trainer and has chaired the AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution. She co-chaired the Legal Educator’s Colloquium of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and served on the Section’s Diversity Committee.

In addition, she chaired the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education in 2002-03 and served on the executive committee of the Clinical Section. She is past chair of the AALS Standing Committee on Clinical Legal Education and the D.C. Bar Attorney-Client Arbitration Board. Dean Izumi also serves as faculty adviser to the ADR Board.

Education
B.A., Oberlin College; J.D., Georgetown University

Current Semester Courses
Consumer Mediation Clinic