Amy Schmitz
BA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Drake University (’92)
JD, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, University of Minnesota Law School (’95)
Professor Amy J. Schmitz is a professor at The Ohio State Moritz College of Law and Program on Dispute Resolution as the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Endowed Chair in Law. She is also affiliated with The Ohio State Program on Data Governance and the Divided Community Project. Before teaching at Ohio State, Professor Schmitz taught at the University of Missouri School of Law and Center for Dispute Resolution as the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, starting in 2016. Previously she was a Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law for over 16 years. Prior to teaching, Professor Schmitz practiced law with large law firms in Seattle and Minneapolis and served as a law clerk for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Professor Schmitz teaches courses in Contracts, Lawyering and Problem-Solving, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), AI, Data Analytics and the Law, Arbitration, International Arbitration, and Consumer Law. She has been heavily involved in Arbitration and ODR teaching and research for a long time and is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, as well as the Co-Chair of the ABA Technology Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section and the ODR Task Force.
Professor Schmitz has delivered over 150 presentations on various topics throughout the world and is regularly interviewed and quoted on consumer law in the media – this includes the NY Times, Washington Post, Economist, NPR, Wallethub, Kiplinger’s, Bottom Line, Consumer Reports, Money mag., NBC, ABC, and many others. Some of her awards include the Loyd E. Roberts Memorial Prize in the Administration of Justice (2021), various teaching awards, the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Professional Best Short Article Award (Feb. 2020), Shook Hardy Bacon Best Publication Award (2017), 4-time winner of the Sandgrund Award for Best Consumer Rights Work: and the Calhoun Award for Outstanding Public Service at University of Colorado.
Professor Schmitz also hosts The Arbitration Conversation, a highly regarded podcast that has reached over 100 episodes. She also is a researcher with the ACT Project exploring AI and dispute resolution at the Cyberjustice Lab in Montreal. She has published over 60 articles in law journals and books, is a co-author of the leading casebook, Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer 2021), the new book with Stipanowich, Arbitration: Theory, Practice and Law (Forthcoming Aspen/Wolters Kluwer 2022) and a book with C. Rule, The New Handshake: Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Consumer Protection.
Selected Scholarship
This is a sampling of recent publications; for a complete list, please see Professor Schmitz’s CV in the sidebar.
Books
- Amy J. Schmitz and Colin Rule, THE NEW HANDSHAKE: ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND THE FUTURE OF CONSUMER PROTECTION, (American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution 2017).
- Amy J. Schmitz (with Stipanowich, Golan, Folberg, and Reynolds), Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law (Wolters Kluwer 2021) (among “Best Sellers” on Amazon)
- Tom Stipanowich and Amy J. Schmitz, Arbitration: Theory, Practice and Law (Forthcoming Wolters Kluwer 2022).
Book Chapters
- Amy J. Schmitz and Jan Martinez, ODR and Innovation in the United States, in Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice: A Treatise on Technology and Dispute Resolution (Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Ethan Katsh and Daniel Rainey Eds., Eleven International Publishing, Netherland: The Hague, 2021).
- Amy J. Schmitz, Dangers of Digitizing Due Process, in AI and Law: A Critical Overview, Karim Benyekhlef editor, Les Éditions Thémis (2021).
Publications in Law Journals and Reviews
- Amy J. Schmitz and John Zeleznikow, Intelligent Legal Tech to Empower Self-Represented Litigants, __ Columbia Science and Technology Law Review __, forthcoming (2022).
- Amy J. Schmitz, Considering Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Heller Under U.S. Law, 1(2) CAN. J. COM. ARB. 163 (2021) (peer-reviewed).
- Amy J. Schmitz, Arbitration in the Age of Covid: Examining Arbitration's Move Online, 22 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 245-92 (2021).
- Amy J. Schmitz and Leah Wing, Beneficial and Ethical ODR for Family Issues, 59 Family Court Review250 (2021).
- Amy J. Schmitz, Measuring “Access to Justice” in the Rush to Digitize, 88 Fordham L. Rev 2381-2406 (2020).