“Stephanie” Lucia Kanter St. Amour ’98 is a UC Hastings alumna, longtime adjunct professor in the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), and international mediator. She also serves as board vice president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of UN Women USA.
Earlier this year, she launched her podcast, Forces of Good: The Superpower of Everyday Negotiation. In this interview, she discussed her connection to UC Hastings and her new book, For the Forces of Good: The Superpower of Everyday Negotiation.
Tell me about your time at Hastings and your journey to what you are doing now.
Law school was not the plan for me. I didn’t think I was cut out for it. After college (Go Bears!) I took a job with a small firm of arbitrators and mediators, who invested in my development and encouraged me to go to law school. I nearly dropped out of Hastings my first semester because I felt so out of place. The jelly donut-loving Professor Harry G. Prince convinced me to stick around. I bet he doesn’t even remember that, and what a difference he made for me.
The summer after my first year at Hastings, I clerked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in San Francisco and was a key contributor to designing the EEOC’s mediation program. After law school, I practiced employment law at Orrick and then the Judicial Council of California before teaching at Hastings and UC Berkeley Law, for 10 years. I went to Harvard Law School for my mediation certification, hung out...
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