About the Author\nLisa Kloppenberg serves as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit and Catholic university in Silicon Valley. From 2013-19, she was Dean of its law school. Kloppenberg also served for a decade as Dean at the University of Dayton, a Catholic and Marianist university in Ohio. Kloppenberg earned tenure at the University of Oregon and is a national expert in conflict resolution and constitutional law. She has written several books and numerous articles and essays; she co-authored a textbook on negotiation, mediation and arbitration. She has engaged in extensive service to the legal academy and profession relating to access to justice issues, curricular reform, and access, equity and affordability issues in legal education. She and her husband, Mark Zunich, have three children.\nDorothy Wright Nelson was a prominent federal judge on the level just below the U.S. Supreme Court for over 40 years. One of the early tenured female law professors and one of the rare female deans in the U.S. legal academy in the 1960s and '70s, her expertise was in reforming courts to make them more just and accessible for all people. When she became a federal judge in 1980, she helped to make the federal courts more efficient and provide litigants with alternatives - including mediation and arbitration - to resolve cases without greater expense and delay. An ardent believer in more peaceful resolution of conflicts, Judge Nelson educated judges around the world on conflict resolution and the rule of law, often while engaging quietly in human rights advocacy for persecuted Bahá'ís around the globe. Her Bahá'í faith also inspired her judicial opinions providing more equality and due process for the marginalized, including the poor, racial minorities, immigrants, mentally ill and 
the powerless. Dorothy and her husband, a state court judge, balanced their professional achievements with their personal commitments in a manner unusual for their time. They devoted considerable energy to raising their two children, spending time with their extended family, and engaging in Bahá'í activities (including world travel, youth camps, weekly Sunday School and "firesides" in their home). This book captures the life story of an extraordinary female leader and trailblazer in a highly traditional, male-dominated profession, unafraid to challenge the status quo in her pleasant, optimistic, determined and collegial manner.

The Best Beloved Thing is Justice: The Life of Dorothy Wright Nelson

Biographies & Memoirs

Kloppenberg, Lisa

Community & Culture

Oxford University Press

Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, And Law (Casebook)

&lt;b>Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law&lt;/b> is an ideal and up-to-date text for the new generation of practice-oriented dispute resolution courses. This lively new book captures a lawyer's perspective on resolving disputes effectively and prepares your students to represent clients effectively in all forms of alternative dispute resolution.&lt;p class=copymedium>This timely and teachable text: &lt;li class=copymedium>presents class-tested material designed for the survey course, with sections on negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and hybrid designs&lt;li class=copymedium>integrates theory with strategies, ethics, and the law&lt;li class=copymedium>emphasizes practice applications and useful approaches&lt;li class=copymedium>focuses on the lawyer's perspective; the negotiation section highlights professional negotiation as an agent for clients, while the mediation and arbitration sections stress the role of the representational lawyer&lt;li class=copymedium>includes examples drawn from headline cases, literature, and lawyers' experiences, adding to the realism and relevance of the text&lt;li class=copymedium>excerpts the most important and recent articles and cases&lt;li class=copymedium>draws on the authors¿ extensive experience and from their key roles with major dispute resolution provider organizations as well as their many years of teaching, training, and practicing ADR&lt;p class=copymedium>A complete Teacher's Manual helps instructors prepare for class with:&lt;p class=copymedium>&lt;li class=copymedium>detailed syllabi&lt;li class=copymedium>comprehensive teaching notes&lt;li class=copymedium>provocative discussion points&lt;li class=copymedium>tested exercises and role-plays linked to the text&lt;li class=copymedium>DVD/video coordinated with the text and role-plays (available to adopters)&lt;p class=copymedium>If you want to convey more than the basics and prepare your students for successful, enlightened practice, turn to &lt;b>Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law&lt;/b> for the most current and most realistic exploration of ADR.

Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law

Golann, Dwight

Folberg, Jay

Aspen Publishers

It is one of the unspoken truths of the American judicial system that courts go out of their way to avoid having to decide important and controversial issues. Even the Supreme Court from which the entire nation seeks guidance frequently engages in transparent tactics to avoid difficult, politically sensitive cases. The Court's reliance on avoidance has been inconsistent and at times politically motivated. For example, liberal New Deal Justices, responding to the activism of a conservative Court, promoted deference to Congress and the presidency to protect the Court from political pressure. Likewise, as the Warren Court recognized new constitutional rights, conservative judges and critics praised avoidance as a foundational rule of judicial restraint. And as conservative Justices have constituted the majority on the Court in recent years, many liberals and moderates have urged avoidance, for fear of disagreeable verdicts. By sharing the stories of litigants who struggled unsuccessfully to raise before the Supreme Court constitutional matters of the utmost importance from the 1970s-1990s, Playing it Safe argues that judges who fail to exercise their power in hard cases in effect abdicate their constitutional responsibility when it is needed most, and in so doing betray their commitment to neutrality. Lisa Kloppenberg demonstrates how the Court often avoids socially sensitive cases, such as those involving racial and ethnic discrimination, gender inequalities, abortion restrictions, sexual orientation discrimination, and environmental abuses. In the process, the Court ducks its responsibility to check the more politically responsive branches of government when "majority rule" pushes the boundaries of constitutional law. The Court has not used these malleable doctrines evenhandedly: it has actively shielded states from liability and national oversight, and aggressively expanded standing requirements to limit the role of federal courts.

Playing it Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law

Legal History

NYU Press

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