Jean Sternlight | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Jean Sternlight
		Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution
		Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law

		Phone: 702-895-2358 Email: jean.sternlight@unlv.edu Website: Click here

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., Swarthmore College, 1979 J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1983

	Professor Sternlight joined the Boyd faculty in 2003 after four years at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, where she was the John D. Lawson Professor of Law and also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. After receiving her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her J.D. from Harvard University, where she served as editor in chief of the Harvard Civil Liberties - Civil Rights Law Review, Professor Sternlight clerked for federal judge Marilyn Hall Patel in California and subsequently practiced plaintiff-side employment law in Philadelphia. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her scholarship and law reform activities in the field of dispute resolution. Professor Sternlight teaches Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, and other courses in Dispute Resolution.

	Areas of Expertise: ADR Arbitration Civil Procedure Mediation

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Materials on Mediation Theory and Practice (2001, 2d ed. 2006) (with James J. Alfini, Sharon B. Press & Joseph B. Stulberg). Arbitration Law in America: A Critical Assessment (2006) (with Edward Brunet, Richard Speidel & Stephen Ware). Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2005) (with Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, Lela Porter Love & Andrea Kupfer Schneider). LAW REVIEW ARTICLES Good Lawyers Should Be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients, 23 Ohio St. J. Disp. Resol. ___ (forthcoming 2008) (with Jennifer Robbennolt). “In Defense of Mandatory Arbitration (If Imposed on the Company), 8 Nev. L.J. 82 (2007) Dreaming About Arbitration Reform, 8 Nev. L.J. 1 (2007) Placing the Reality of Employment Discrimination Cases in a Comparative Context, 11 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 204 (2007) Is Alternative Dispute Resolution Consistent with Rule of Law?: Lessons from Abroad, 56 De Paul L. Rev. 569 (2007). Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is It Just?, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 1631 (2005). Separate and Not Equal: Integrating Civil Procedure and ADR in Legal Academia, 80 Notre Dame L. Rev. 681 (2005). Foreward, Competing and Complementary Rule Systems: Civil Procedure and ADR, 80 Notre Dame L. Rev. 481 (2005) (with Judith Resnick). Using Arbitration to Eliminate Class Actions: Efficient Business Practice or Unconscionable Abuse? 67 Law & Contemp. Probs. 75 (2004) (with Elizabeth J. Jensen). In Search of the Best Procedure for Enforcing Employment Discrimination Laws: A Comparative Analysis, 78 Tul. L. Rev. 1401 (2004). The Rise and Spread of Mandatory Arbitration as a Substitute for the Jury Trial, 38 U.S.F. L. Rev. 17 (2003). ADR Is Here: Reflections on Where It Fits in a System of Justice, 3 Nev. L.J. 289 (2003). Is the U.S. Out on a Limb?: Comparing the U.S. Approach to Mandatory Consumer and Employment Arbitration to That of the Rest of the World, 56 U. Miami L. Rev. 831 (2002). Mandatory Binding Arbitration and the Demise of the Seventh Amendment Right to a Jury Trial, 16 Ohio St. J. Disp. Resol. 669 (2001). As Mandatory Binding Arbitration Meets the Class Action, Will the Class Action Survive?, 42 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1 (2000). Is Binding Arbitration a Form of ADR: An Argument that the Term “ADR” Has Begun to Outlive its Usefulness, 2000 J. Disp. Resol. 98 (2000). --> More Publications (pdf)

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