Tracey Frisch

Adjunct Professor Tracey Frisch is Senior Counsel for the American Arbitration Association, where she is involved in a variety of legal matters. She also served as an Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, supervising law student mediators.

Professor Frisch is a member of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York pro bono mediation panel, specializing in employment discrimination cases. She is a New York State certified community mediator, and has mediated cases at many of metropolitan New York’s community mediation centers, Small Claims and Civil Courts. Professor Frisch has authored and spoken on numerous ADR-focused topics. She earned her law degree, cum laude, from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and BA from Tulane University, magna cum laude.

• BA, Tulane University
• JD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

• Commercial Arbitration Law and Practice LAW 690B

• “Section 4 - Jury, Trial: A Misnomer in the Federal Arbitration Act.” in The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform, edited by Richard A. Bales and Jill I. Gross, Cambridge University Press (2024 forthcoming).
• Advancing Access to Justice Through Alternative Dispute Resolution: AAA-ICDR Foundation Grantees in Focus, American Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Magazine Vol. 29 Issue 3 (Fall 2023).
• Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance, American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Newsletter, October 2020.
• “The International Centre for Dispute Resolution's Mediation Practice and Experience.” In Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes, edited by Katia Fach Gómez and Catharine Titi, Oxford University Press (with Eric Tuchmann, Giovanna Micheli, and Yanett Quiroz) (August 2019).
• On Professional Practice, Arbitrator Disclosure – Ignorance is Not Bliss, Dispute Resolution Magazine Vol. 25 Issue 1 (Fall 2018).
• Update Judicial Approaches to the Amount-in-Controversy Requirement for Diversity Jurisdiction in Arbitration Cases, The Resolver, Publication of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Federal Bar Association, Winter 2017, at 10-11.
• The American Arbitration Association’s Administrative Review Council, 10 New York Disp. Resol. Lawyer 2, (with Eric Tuchmann, Sasha Carbone and Simon Kyriakides) Fall 2017, at 11-15.
• Arbitrating Fair Labor Standard Act Cases – Is the Process a Problem? 10 New York Disp. Resol. Lawyer 1, (with Robyn Weinstein) Spring 2017, at 28-29.
• Death by Discovery, Delay, and Disempowerment: Legal Authority for Arbitrators to Provide a Cost-Effective and Expeditious Process, 17 CARDOZO J. OF CONFLICT RESOL. 155 (2015).
• AAA’s Administrative Review Counsel, CORP. COUNSEL MAG. November 2014, at 29.
• Judicial Approaches to the Amount-in-Controversy Requirement for Diversity Jurisdiction in Arbitration Cases, Disp. Resol. J., Nov. – Jan. 2010, at 20.
• Federal Court Developments FAA Discovery Narrowed, DISP. RESOL. J., Feb. – Apr. 2009, at 5.
• Permission Plus: Reaching the Pareto Optimal Guideline for Contingency Fees in Mediation, 5 J. AM. ARB. 1 (2006).

Mediation, Arbitration