With great delight and without the least surprise, word came earlier this week that both Liz Tippett and Erik Girvan have received tenure at the University of Oregon School of Law.

Soon-to-be Associate Professor Liz Tippett is a Negotiation scholar, among other things, and she is co-faculty director of Oregon’s Conflict and Dispute Resolution Master’s Program. Liz’s research provides an empirical look at a number of important employment law questions, and she recently presented to the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution on the coaching pedagogy she incorporates into Negotiation teaching.

Soon-to-be Associate Professor Erik Grivan researches at the intersection of law and psychology, with a particular emphasis on implicit bias. He is co-faculty director of Oregon’s Conflict and Dispute Resolution Master’s Program, teaches a course on the Psychology of Conflict, and has provided implicit bias training to thousands of academics and practitioners.

We at Oregon are lucky to have them as colleagues, and I wanted to share the good (if utterly unsurprising) news.

MM