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Education:
J.D., Harvard University
B.A., Allegheny College
Professor Nancy Welsh is a leading scholar in the field of alternative dispute resolution whose research focuses 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. Professor Welsh mediates contract, employment, and public policy matters; consults with government agencies on dispute resolution system design; and trains attorneys and judges in mediation skills. Recently, as a Fulbright Scholar, Professor Welsh conducted research regarding the Netherlands’ nationwide implementation of court-connected mediation and taught in the Private Law Department of Tilburg University. For nearly ten years, Professor Welsh was the executive director of the Mediation Center, a nonprofit ADR organization serving Minnesota, and as a member of the Minnesota ADR Review Board, advised the Minnesota Supreme Court regarding the institutionalization of ADR in the state’s courts. She is currently Chair of the ADR Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Governing Council of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly, the Independent Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute, the Mediation Advisory Board of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission Advisory Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. 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 practiced corporate litigation with the Minneapolis law firm of Leonard, Street and Deinard. She teaches Civil Procedure, Negotiation/Mediation, Conflict Resolution Theory Seminar, Client Counseling and Constitutional Law. She is the faculty advisor for the Certificate in Dispute Resolution and Advocacy and the Dispute Resolution Society.
Contact Information:
E-mail:
nxw10@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 241-3508
Principal Office: Carlisle
Selected Publications:
Dispute Resolution and Lawyers, 4th ed., with L. Riskin, J. Westbrook, C. Guthrie, R. Reuben, and J. Robbennolt (forthcoming, 2009).
”Is That All There Is? 'The Problem' in Court-Oriented Mediation," with L. Riskin, 15 George Mason Law Review 863 (2008).
"Looking Down the Road Less Traveled: Challenges to Persuading the Legal Profession to Define Problems Humanistically," 1 Journal of Dispute Resolution 45 (2008).
"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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