About the Authors
Stephen B. Goldberg
Stephen Goldberg is professor of law emeritus at Northwestern University School of Law. Along with Dispute Resolution, Professor Goldberg has authored several other publications including "Is the Mediator’s Primary Goal to Settle the Dispute?" Dispute Resolution Magazine, Winter 2009; "of Further Investigation into the Secrets of Successful and Unsuccessful Mediators," Alternatives, 2008; Gerer les Conflits “Autrement,” 2008; "The Secrets of Successful (and Unsuccessful) Mediators Continued: Studies Two and Three," Negotiation Journal, 2007; "What Happens After the Arbitrator’s Award," Proceedings, 59th Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, 2007.
Frank E.A. Sander
Frank Sander is professor of law emeritus at Harvard Law School.
Research Interests
Alternative Methods of Dispute Resolution
Education
Harvard College A.B. 1949, Mathematics
Harvard Law School LL.B. 1952
Appointments
Assistant Professor of Law, 1959
Professor of Law, 1962
Walter E. Meyer Research Professor, 1978-79
Bussey Professor of Law, 1981-2006
Associate Dean, 1987-2000
Representative Publications
Sander, Frank E. A. Dispute Resolution (Aspen 4th ed. 2003).
Sander, Frank E. A. & S. Goldberg. "Fitting the Forum to the Fuss: A User-Friendly Guide to Selecting an ADR Procedure," 10 Negotiation Journal 49 (1994).
Sander, Frank E. A. "Varieties of Dispute Processing" in The Pound Conference: Perspectives on Justice in the Future (A. Levin & R. Wheeler eds., West, 1979).
Nancy H. Rogers
Nancy Rogers is professor of law and Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Ohio State University School of Law.
Professor Rogers received her bachelor's degree with highest distinction from the University of Kansas in 1969 and her law degree from Yale Law School in 1972.
Professor Rogers served as Ohio Attorney General from May 28, 2008 to January 6, 2009, when she re-joined the law faculty. She was Dean of the Moritz College of Law from 2001 to 2008. Just prior to that, she served two years as the University's Vice Provost for Academic Administration. Professor Rogers was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2007.
She has taught and written primarily in the area of dispute resolution. Her co-authored treatise on mediation received the CPR Legal Program Book Prize in 1989 and her co-authored short text on mediation received the same national prize in 1987. She also has co-authored a leading law school textbook in dispute resolution, and articles.
Professor Rogers had a gubernatorial appointment as one of Ohio's five commissioners on the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws from 1998 to 2005, and was Reporter for the Conference's Uniform Mediation Law. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools from 2001 to 2004, and 2006 to 2008. She served on the planning committee for the ABA Seminar for New Law Deans from 2002 to 2007, chairing it for two years.
Sarah Rudolph Cole
Sarah Cole is Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Designated Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at the Ohio State University School of Law.
Professor Cole practiced labor and employment law with Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in Seattle and Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson in Chicago before joining the faculty at Creighton University School of Law. While at Creighton, and now at Ohio State, Professor Cole has focused her research on the legal issues and policy that have arisen as a result of the increased use of alternative dispute resolution.
She teaches primarily in the Alternative Dispute Resolution area, but has also taught Torts, Remedies, and Administrative Law. Professor Cole has recently published articles in BYU Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution.
Professor Cole is co-author, with Dean Nancy H. Rogers and Dean Craig McEwen, of Mediation: Law, Policy and Practice (2d. ed. 1994), the leading treatise in the field of mediation, and co-author with Dean Nancy H. Rogers, Frank Sander and Stephen Goldberg of Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation and Other Processes (4th ed. 2003), one of the leading dispute resolution casebooks in the country.
She is a member of the Arbitration Committee and the Public Service Institute for the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution and a regular speaker on ADR topics at national meetings. She was a member of the academic advisory faculty that consulted with NCCUSL and the ABA regarding the drafting of the Uniform Mediation Act. She also consults regularly with the OSBA dispute resolution committee and the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution on dispute resolution issues arising in Ohio.
