Program on Alternative Dispute Resolution

Student Honors & Awards

• Archived Honors & Awards

James B. Boskey Essay Contest: Law Division, Student Scholarship. Awarded by Dispute Resolution Section of American Bar Association

• 2004 First Prize: Kristen M. Blankley ('04): Confidentiality or Control: Which Will Prevail as Confidentiality and 'Good Faith' Negotiation Statutes Collide in Court-Annexed Mediations?

Nancy H. Rogers Prize in Dispute Resolution Scholarship

This prize was created in 1999 by an anonymous donor, with the stipulation that it be named in honor of Nancy H. Rogers, who, at that time, was the Joseph S. Platt-Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Professor of Law and director of our Program on Dispute Resolution.

Each year, the award recognizes two students who, in the judgment of a committee of faculty members who teach in the dispute resolution, wrote research papers on a dispute resolution topic that, in the donor's language, "reflect the analytical rigor and intellectual breadth associated with highly-regarded scholarly contributions."

• 2009 First Prize: Susan Landrum ('09): Ohio Courts and Unconscionability in Arbitration Agreements
• 2009 Honorable Mention: Erin Butcher-Lyden ('10): Uncertain Terrain: Are Materials Prepared for Mediation Protected from Disclosure in Litigation and Richard (Rick) Miller ('10): A Mediation Lost: Was Haig Hexed?
• 2008 First Prize: Lauren LaRochelle ('08): Access to Justice: An Analysis of the Debate over Sharia Arbitration in Ontario.
• 2008 Second Prize: Michelle Mann ('09): The Impact of State Law on the Advantageousness of Mediation for Same Sex Couples in Custody Disputes.
• 2007 First Prize: David Shelton ('07): Keeping End-of-Life Decisions Away from Courts after Thirty Years of Failure: Bio-ethical Mediation as an Alternative for Resolving End-of-Life Disputes.
• 2007 Second Prize: Seth Linnick ('07): Solving the Nonlawyer Mediator Dilemma: The Need for Flexible Unauthorized Practice Standards.

Center for Public Resources Award for Excellence in ADR: Student Articles

• 2005 First Prize: Joshua Berry ('06): The Trouble We Have With the Iraqis is US: A Proposal for Alternative Dispute Resolution in the New Iraq
• 2005 Second Prize: Daniel Hendy ('06): Is a Truth Commission the Solution to Restoring Peace in Post-Conflict Iraq?

Other

• 2008: Nathan Witkin ('08): Co-resolution: A Cooperative Structure for Dispute Resolution, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Winter 2008, Volume 26, Number 2, pg. 239.
• 2008: David M. Shelton ('07): Keeping End-of-Life Decisions Away from Courts After Thirty Years of Failure: Bioethical Mediation as an Alternative for Resolving End-of-Life Disputes, 31 Hamline L. Rev. 103 (2008)
• 2007: Matthew Bierlein ('06): Seeing the Face of the Patient: Considerations in Applying Bioethics Mediation to Non-Competent End-of-Life Decisionmaking, 23 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 61 (2007).
• 2007: Michelle Robinson ('06): Mediator Certification: Realizing its Potentials and Coping with its Limitations, Volume 1, pg. 51-73, American Journal of Mediation.