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Nancy Welsh

Professor of Law



 

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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