Dr. Meschievitz works in the areas of strategic planning, academic affairs, budget planning and finance, extramural grants management, human resources, and space and facilities. Dr. Meschievitz also serves as Associate Director of the International Institute, and is a member of the International Institute Academic Planning Council. She is a member of the Provost's Team to develop the international educational goals in the UW-Madison campus strategic plan which targets "accelerate internationalization" as a major campus goal. She currently serves on the steering committees of the Language Institute, the Global Health Program, and the Global Legal Studies Initiative.

Degrees:

Ph. D. (1986):University of Wisconsin-Madison, Modern South Asian History
J.D. (1979):University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. (1973):University of Wisconsin-Madison, Modern South Asian History
B.A. (1972):University of Wisconsin-Madison, History

Positions:

Prior to joining International Studies in 1990, Dr. Meschievitz served as the Associate Director of the Institute for Legal Studies at the UW Law School. She has studied informal justice, and disputing and legal history in India, Europe and the U.S. She won several research awards, e.g., State Justice Institute award for an empirical study of mediation of medical malpractice claims in Wisconsin (1988-90); Visiting Scholar, Zentrum Für Europaische Rechtspolitik (ZERP) Bremen,
West Germany (1988); graduate dissertation fieldwork grants in India and England from the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute for Indian Studies and the Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad Program in 1980-1982; and a grant from the University of California-Berkeley Professional Studies Program in India to study at the Indian Law Institute and Delhi University Law College in 1977-78.

Publications:

"Globalization and the University: Challenges and Responses," Communiqué Vol. 10, No 1, Spring 2001.

“Efficacious or Precarious" Comments on the Processing and Resolution of Medical Malpractice Claims in the United States,” 1994:3 Annals of Health Law 123 (1994)

Beyond Disputing: Exploring Legal Culture in Five European Countries, co-edited with Konstanze Plett (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991) including the “Introduction - Putting Dispute Processing Research and Theory in Context,” co-authored by Konstanze Plett in the same volume, pp.9-29]

Mediating Medical Malpractice Claims in Wisconsin: A Final Report, a monograph produced by the Disputes Processing Research Program, Madison, November, 1991, pp.53

“Mediation and Medical Malpractice: Problems with Definition and Implementation,” 54:2 Law and Contemporary Problems 101-122 (1991)

“In Search of Nyaya Panchayats: The Politics of a Moribund Institution,” (with Marc Galanter) in The Politics of Informal Justice: Vol. 2 Comparative Studies. Edited by Richard Abel (New York: Academic Press, 1982), pp. 47-77

Professional Organizations:

Dr. Meschievitz is a member of the Wisconsin State Bar and the Association of Asian Studies.
She served on the Steering Committee for the Consortium on Globalization, Law and Social Sciences (CONGLASS) from 1992-1996, and helped manage a series of international consortium meetings in Onati, Spain (1994), Chicago (1995), Toronto (1995) and Glasgow (June 1996).