Amy Schmitz, B.A., J.D.

Professor Amy J. Schmitz is a full 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 and Director of JusticeTech at The Ohio State University.  She also is 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 Law and Technology/JusticeTech, Contracts, Lawyering and Problem-Solving, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Arbitration, International Arbitration, Social Media and Conflict, and Uniform Commercial Code. She has been heavily involved in Arbitration and LegalTech teaching and research for a long time, is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, serves on the Education Committee and the AI Ambassadors Program for the AAA-ICDR, is on the Board of Directors for the International Council on Online Dispute Resolution, and the Editorial Board for the International Arbitration peer-reviewed Journal. She was the long-time Co-Chair of the ABA Technology Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section and the ODR Task Force, and now is on the Beyond the Page Task Force of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section.  Professor Schmitz is also an elected member of the American Law Institute and the 2023 winner of the Association of American Law Schools Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award as well as the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Scholarly Achievement Award in 2025.

Professor Schmitz has delivered over 185 presentations and hosts The Arbitration Conversation, a highly regarded webcast (100 episodes on YouTube) that moved to a podcast (17 episodes and more coming). She also is a researcher with the ACT Project exploring AI and dispute resolution at the Cyberjustice Laboratory in Montreal, Canada, and is heavily involved in discussions and research around technology, dispute resolution, and access to justice. She has published over 90 articles in journals and books, is a co-author of Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law (Aspen 2021), the book with Stipanowich, Arbitration: Theory, Practice and Law (Aspen 2022), a book with Martinez, Digital Dispute System Design (Aspen 2025), and a book with C. Rule, The New Handshake: Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Consumer Protection (ABA 2017), and, The Arbitration Conversation: Insights and Wisdom from Experts in the Field (ABA 2024). She has received the Inst. for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) Award for one of her articles as well as the CPR Book Award in 2023 and again in 2025. Amy has been an Expert Consultant on two USAID Projects, two Fulbright Specialist grants, and does research, teaching and presentations throughout the world.