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Education:
J.D., Harvard University
B.A., Allegheny College
Nancy A. Welsh is Professor of Law at the Dickinson
School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University.
She is a leading scholar in the field of alternative
dispute resolution (ADR), with research focusing on
the procedural justice provided by court-connected
and agency-connected mediation, as well as the effect
of institutionalized “alternative” processes
on the legitimacy and mission of the courts. Recently,
as a Fulbright Scholar, Professor Welsh conducted
research regarding the Netherlands’ nationwide
implementation of court-connected mediation in order
to contribute to mutual understanding and continued
innovation in both the U.S. and the Netherlands. She
also taught in the Private Law Department of Tilburg
University.
Professor Welsh chairs the Publications Board of
the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution
and is a member of the editorial board of the Association
of Conflict Resolution’s Conflict Resolution
Journal. She is also a member of the Mediation
Advisory Board of the Federal District Court of the
Middle District of Pennsylvania. She has previously
served as Chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s
James Boskey Essay Competition and Legal Educators’
Colloquium. She
serves as faculty advisor to the Dickinson School
of Law ADR Society. Professor Welsh mediates and arbitrates contract,
employment and public policy matters, consults with
governmental agencies on dispute resolution system
design and trains attorneys and judges in mediation
skills.
Before joining the Dickinson faculty, Professor Welsh
was a member of the Minnesota ADR Review Board which
advised the state’s Supreme Court regarding
rules and ethics for the state’s innovative
court-connected ADR program. She also was Executive
Director of Mediation Center, a non-profit ADR organization
serving Minnesota, and chaired the Minnesota State
Bar Association’s ADR Committee. In 1997, just
before joining the Penn State Dickinson School of
Law, Professor Welsh’s peers selected her as
a leading Minnesota attorney. Professor Welsh also
practiced corporate litigation with the Minneapolis
law firm of Leonard, Street and Deinard. She teaches
Civil Procedure, Negotiation, Mediation, Conflict
Resolution Theory Seminar and Client Counseling.
Contact Information:
Email:
nxw10@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 241-3508
Blog:
http://www.indisputably.org/
Selected Publications:
“What's It All About?: 'The Problem' in Court-Oriented Mediation,” with L. Riskin, George Mason Law Review, forthcoming 2008.
“Looking Down the Road Less Traveled: Can the Legal Profession Afford to Define Problems Broadly?” Journal of Dispute Resolution, forthcoming 2008. (part of University of Missouri-Columbia symposium entitled “Innovative Models of Lawyering: Collaborative Law and Other Processes”)
“The Future of Mediation: Court-Connected Mediation in the U.S. and The Netherlands Compared,” Forum Voor Conflictmanagement 2007.
En vergelijking tussen doorverwijizing naar mediation in civiele zaken: voorspelt de ervaring van de Verenigde Staten (VS) de toekomst van Nederland? (“Comparing Court-Connected Non-Family Civil Mediation: Does the U.S. Experience Predict The Netherlands' Future?”), Trema, 2006.
“Perceptions of Fairness in Negotiation,” in The Negotiator's Fieldbook, A. Schneider & C. Honeyman, eds., 2006.
“Institutionalization and Professionalization,” in The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Michael Moffitt & Robert Bordone, eds., 2005).
“Look Before You Leap and Keep On Looking: Lessons from the Institutionalization of Court-Connected Mediation,” with B. McAdoo, Nevada Law Journal, 2005.
“The Place of Court-Connected Mediation in a Democratic Justice System,” Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2004.
“The Law of Bargaining,” with R. Korobkin and M. Moffitt, Marquette Law Review, 2004.
“Stepping Back Through the Looking Glass: Real Conversations with Real Disputants About Institutionalized Mediation and Its Value,” Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2004.
“Remembering the Role of Justice in Resolution: Insights from Procedural and Social Justice Theory,” Journal of Legal Education, 2004.
“Disputants' Decision Control in Court-Connected Mediation: A Hollow Promise Without Procedural Justice,” Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2002.
“Making Deals in Court-Connected Mediation: What's Justice Got To Do With It?,” Washington University Law Quarterly, 2001.
“The Thinning Vision of Self-Determination in Court-Annexed Mediation: The Inevitable Price of Institutionalization?,” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 2001 (recognized as the third most-cited article published by the Harvard Negotiation Law Review).
“Does ADR Really Have A Place on the Lawyer's Philosophical Map?,” with B. McAdoo, Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, 1997.
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