Andrea Kupfer Schneider.  Professor of Law and Director, Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution, Cardozo School of Law.

Andrea writes primarily on negotiation, gender, plea bargaining, ethics, and pedagogy.  She is always happy to talk about all things dispute resolution, helpful teaching tools, and things that enrage her.  (See her TEDx talk on Women Don’t Negotiate and Other Similar Nonsense.)

John Lande.  Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri School of Law.

John’s scholarship has focused on mediation, negotiation, planned early dispute resolution, and dispute system design.  He now is working on the Real Practice Systems Project.  He has developed various collections of resources.  He writes about a wide variety of topics.

Colin Rule.  CEO of Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc. (“RIS”), home of Mediate.com, Arbitrate.com, MediateUniversity.com, and odr.com.

Colin writes and teaches (as an adjunct) on online dispute resolution at Stanford, Santa Clara University, Pepperdine, and Texas A&M. He wrote ODR for Business (2002) and The New Handshake (2018, with Amy Schmitz).  You can read many of his pieces here.

Cynthia Alkon.  Professor of Law, Director of the Criminal Law, Justice, and Policy Program, Texas A&M University School of Law.

Cynthia is a former public defender (in Los Angeles) who writes primarily about dispute resolution in criminal cases including plea bargaining, restorative justice, and therapeutic justice.  She also has an interest in international events and comparative processes, having worked in rule of law development in a number of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union before becoming a professor.

Hiro Aragaki.  Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, UC Law San Francisco.

Hiro’s scholarship has traditionally focused on domestic arbitration law, in particular the tension between contract and procedure in the Supreme Court’s Federal Arbitration Act jurisprudence.  In recent years, it has shifted toward looking at arbitration and mediation from international, comparative, and development law perspectives, particularly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.  Hiro is also an active arbitrator and mediator.

Sarah Rudolph Cole.  Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University.

Sarah writes primarily about arbitration and mediation but enjoys discussing all dispute resolution topics.  She is a member of the Steering Committee of Moritz’s Divided Community Project and a primary investigator on its Catalyst Grant.

Jill I. Gross.  Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

Jill writes on securities dispute resolution and commercial arbitration, and is an arbitrator for FINRA and AAA.  She is co-editing the book, The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform (forthcoming Cambridge University Press).

Michael Moffitt. Philip H. Knight Chair in Law and Professor, University of Oregon.

Michael writes primarily on mediation, negotiation, ethics, and malpractice.  He serves on the Board of Directors of Consensus Building Institute (CBI).

Art Hinshaw.  Clinical Professor of Law and John J. Bouma Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

Art writes about mediation and negotiation, especially in the area of ethics, and other dispute resolution issues that capture his attention.

Kelly Browe Olson.  Associate Professor & Mediation Clinic Director, University of Arkansas Little Rock Bowen School of Law.

Kelly writes on family and child dependency mediation, collaborative law, communication and special education issues.  She mediates in family and dependency/neglect cases and oversees a state-wide special education mediation project.

Jennifer Wenska Reynolds.  Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and Faculty Director of the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center, University of Oregon School of Law.

Jen’s teaching and scholarship focus on dispute processing, negotiation, mediation, and culture.  She is currently co-editing a second volume of Star Wars and Conflict Resolution with Noam Ebner (Creighton).

Sukhsimranjit Singh.  Professor of Law and Practice, Judge Weinstein Managing Director, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and Assistant Dean, Graduate Law Programs, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.

Sukhsimran’s scholarship is focused on cross-cultural dispute resolution and on commercial cross-border mediation.An active mediator and arbitrator, Singh is working with national and international parties to create long-term sustainable meditation cultures including his work in Africa, Europe, India and Latin America.

Nancy Welsh.  Frank W. Elliott, Jr. University Professor of Law and Director of the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program of Texas A&M University School of Law.

Nancy writes primarily about mediation, arbitration and judicial settlement, with a special focus on whether and how these processes provide procedural justice and interact with the role of the courts.

Deborah Thompson Eisenberg.  Vice Dean and Piper & Marbury Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Deb is interested in how lawyers, workplaces, schools, and communities address complex problems through conflict process strategies, including litigation, negotiation, mediation and restorative justice.  In her law school administrative role, she also explores conflict resolution skills for leaders and how ADR will be tested on the NextGen Bar.