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Association of American Law Schools 2003 Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. Thursday, January 2 - Sunday, January 5, 2003 |
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Friday, January 3, 2003 8:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Annual Meeting Workshop on Dispute Resolution: Raising the Bar and Enlarging the Canon
Concurrent Session: Conducting and Using Empirical Research Law Professors Can Conduct Empirical Research Bobbi McAdoo, Hamline University
 
Law professors can conduct empirical research! And they should, especially given our need for more accurate information in the ADR field. It does not have to be mysterious or frightening to do research, and you don't have to be a Ph.D. either!
A list of 10 things you should know:
 
 
(A non-exhaustive list.) Basic Research Methods Texts: BARBARA SOMMER & ROBERT SOMMER, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES (5th Ed. 1997) (New York: Oxford University Press). JEFFREY KATZER, KENNETH H. COOK, & WAYNE W. CROUCH, EVALUATING INFORMATION: A GUIDE FOR USERS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (4th Ed. 1998) (Boston: McGraw-Hill). DAVID L. FAIGMAN, ET AL., SCIENCE IN THE LAW: STANDARDS, STATISTICS, AND RESEARCH ISSUES (2002) (West). Journal Articles, Monographs, and Reports: Linda Babcock, et al., Forming Beliefs about Adjudicated Outcomes: Perceptions of Risk and Reservation Values, 15 INT'L REV. L. ECON. 289 (1995). Linda Babcock, et al., Biased Judgments of Fairness in Bargaining, 85 AM. ECON. REV. 1337 (1995). Linda Babcock & George Loewenstein, Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases, 11 J. ECON. PERSP. 109 (1997). Linda Babcock & Greg Pogarsky, Damage Caps and Settlement: A Behavioral Approach, 28 J. LEGAL STUD. 341 (1999). Lisa B. Bingham, On Repeat Players, Adhesive Contracts, and the Use of Statistics in Judicial Review of Employment Arbitration Awards, 29 MCGEORGE L. REV. 223 (1998). Lisa B. Bingham, et al., Exploring the Role of Representation in Employment Mediation at the USPS, 17 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 341 (2002). JAMES B. EAGLIN, THE PRE-ARGUMENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM IN THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, Federal Judicial Center (1990). Lauren B. Edelman, et al., Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace, 27 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 497 (1993). Lee Epstein & Gary King, Rules of Inference, 69 UNIV. CHI. L. REV. 1 (2002). Elizabeth Gordon, Why Attorneys Support Mandatory Mediation, 82 JUDICATURE 224 (March-April 1999). Elizabeth Gordon, Attorneys' Negotiation Strategies in Mediation: Business as Usual?, 17 MEDIATION Q. 377 (2000). Deborah R. Hensler, A Research Agenda: What We Need to Know About Court-Connected ADR, DISP. RESOL. MAG., 15-17 (1999). Deborah R. Hensler, ADR Research at the Crossroads, 2000 J. DISP. RES. 71 (2000). Christopher Honeyman, et al., Not Quite Protocols: Toward Collaborative Research in Dispute Resolution, 19 CONFLICT RESOL. Q, Fall 2001. Jonathan M. Hyman, et al., Civil Settlement-Styles of Negotiation in Dispute Resolution (study prepared for the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts with an SJI grant). Chris Guthrie et al., Inside the Judicial Mind, 86 CORNELL L. REV. 777, 802-03 (2001). Chris Guthrie, Framing Frivolous Litigation: A Psychological Theory, 67 UNIV. CHI. L. REV. 163 (2000). JAMES S. KAKALIK ET AL., AN EVALUATION OF JUDICIAL CASE MANAGEMENT UNDER THE CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM ACT, RAND (1996). Russell Korobkin, Aspirations and Settlement, 88 CORNELL L. REV. 1 (2002). Russell Korobkin & Chris Guthrie, Psychological Barriers to Litigation Settlement: An Experimental Approach, 93 MICH. L. REV. 107 (1994). Russell Korobkin & Chris Guthrie, Opening Offers and Out-of-Court Settlement: A Little Moderation May Not Go a Long Way, 10 OHIO ST. J. DISPUTE RES. 1 (1994). Russell Korobkin & Chris Guthrie, Psychology, Economics, and Settlement: A New Look at the Role of the Lawyer, 76 TEXAS L. REV. 77 (1997). John Lande, Getting the Faith: Why Business Lawyers and Executives Believe in Mediation, 5 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. 137 (2000). John Lande, Failing Faith in Litigation? A Survey of Business Lawyers' and Executives' Opinions, 3 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. 1 (1998). E. Allan Lind, et al., In the Eye of the Beholder: Tort Litigants' Evaluations of Their Experiences in the Civil Justice System, 24 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 953 (1990). George Loewenstein et al., Self-Serving Assessments of Fairness and Pre-Trial Bargaining, 22 J. LEGAL STUD. 135 (1993). Robert J. MacCoun, Unintended Consequences of Court Arbitration: A Cautionary Tale from New Jersey, 14 JUST. SYS. J. 229 (1991). Bobbi McAdoo, A Report to the Minnesota Supreme Court: The Impact of Rule 114 on Civil Litigation Practice in Minnesota, 25 HAMLINE L. REV. 401 (2002). Bobbi McAdoo & Art Hinshaw, The Challenge of Institutionalizing Alternative Dispute Resolution: Attorney Perspectives on the Effect of Rule 17 on Civil Litigation in Missouri, 67 MO. L. REV. 473 (2002). Craig A. McEwen, et al., Lawyers, Mediation, and the Management of Divorce Practice, 28 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 149 (1994). Craig A. McEwen & Richard J. Maiman, The Relative Significance of Disputing Forum and Dispute Characteristics for Outcome and Compliance, 20 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 439 (1986). Craig A. McEwen & Roselle L. Wissler, Finding Out if it is True: Comparing Mediation and Negotiation Through Research, 2002 J. DISP. RESOL. 131 (2002). Julie Macfarlane, Culture Change? Commercial Litigators and the Ontario Mandatory Mediation Program, 2002 J. DISP. RESOL. (forthcoming 2002). BARBARA S. MEIERHOEFER, COURT-ANNEXED ARBITRATION IN TEN DISTRICT COURTS, Federal Judicial Center (1990). Michael Morris, et al., Schmooze or Lose: Social Friction and Lubrication in E-Mail Negotiations, 6 GROUP DYNAMICS: THEORY, RESEARCH & PRACTICE 89 (2002). Tina Nabatchi & Lisa B. Bingham, Transformative Mediation in the USPS REDRESS Program: Observations of ADR Specialists, 18 HOFSTRA LAB. & EMP. L. J. 399 (2001). ROBERT J. NIEMIC, MEDIATION IN BANKRUPTCY: THE FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER SURVEY OF MEDIATION PARTICIPANTS, Federal Judicial Center (1998). ELIZABETH PLAPINGER & DONNA STIENSTRA, ADR AND SETTLEMENT IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS: A SOURCEBOOK FOR JUDGES AND LAWYERS, Federal Judicial Center (1996). Greg Pogarsky & Linda Babcock, Damage Caps, Motivated Anchoring, and Bargaining Impasse, 30 J. LEGAL STUD. 143 (2001). Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Gains, Losses, and the Psychology of Litigation, 70 S. CAL. L. REV. 113 (1997). DAVID RAUMA & CAROL KRAFKA, VOLUNTARY ARBITRATION IN EIGHT FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS: AN EVALUATION, Federal Judicial Center (1994). ELIZABETH ROLPH & ERIK MOLLER, EVALUATING AGENCY ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAMS...A USER'S GUIDE TO DATA COLLECTION AND USE, RAND (1995). DONNA STIENSTRA, ET AL., A STUDY OF THE FIVE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM ACT OF 1990, Federal Judicial Center (1997). Donna Stienstra, Evaluating and Monitoring ADR Procedures, FJC DIRECTIONS, Dec. 1994, at 24. Leigh Thompson & George Loewenstein, Egocentric Interpretations of Fairness and Negotiation, 51 ORGANIZATION BEHAV. & HUM. DECISION PROCESSES 176 (1992). Leigh Thompson & Janice Nadler, Negotiating Via Information Technology: Theory & Application, 58 J. SOC. ISSUES 109 (2002). Roselle Wissler, When Does Familiarity Breed Content: A Study of the Role of Different Forms of ADR Education and Experience in Attorneys' ADR Recommendations, 2 PEPPERDINE DISP. RESOL. L. J. 141 (2002). Roselle Wissler, Court-Connected Mediation in General Civil Cases: What We Know From Empirical Research, 17 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 641 (2002). Roselle Wissler, The Effects of Mandatory Mediation: Empirical Research on the Experience of Small Claims and Common Pleas Courts, 33 WILLAMETTE L. REV. 565 (1997). Roselle Wissler, Mediation and Adjudication in the Small Claims Court: The Effects of Process and Case Characteristics, 29 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 323 (1995).
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