Sarah Rudolph Cole
Education and Experience
- BA, University of Puget Sound, American History, 1986 (cum laude)
- JD, University of Chicago Law School, 1990 (cum laude)
Biography
In law school at the University of Chicago, Professor Cole was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Legal Forum and won the award for best paper written in the law school in 1990. She graduated with honors. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Eugene A. Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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 and policy issues that have arisen as a result of the increased use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
She teaches primarily in the ADR area, but has also taught Torts, Labor Law, and Administrative Law. Professor Cole has published articles in U.C. Davis Law Review, Houston Law Review, BYU Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, the UNLV Law Review, and the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution.
Professor Cole is co-author, with Professors Nancy H. Rogers, Craig McEwen, Jim Coben, and Peter Thompson of Mediation: Law, Policy and Practice (3d. ed. 2011), the leading treatise in the field of mediation, and co-author with Nancy H. Rogers, Frank Sander and Stephen Goldberg of Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation and Other Processes (7th ed. 2020), one of the leading dispute resolution casebooks in the country.
In 2020, she will publish with Oxford University Press, Discussions in Dispute Resolution, with Andrea Schneider and Art Hinshaw, eds. In 2019, she was named Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution and was previously the John W. Bricker Professor of Law. In 2012, she also received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Ohio State University. In 2006, she became Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution.
She is past chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee for the AALS 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 is also on the panel of arbitrators for AAA, OCB, OCSEA, FINRA, OSTA, and SERB in Ohio.
Selected Scholarship
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, What Title IX Dispute Systems Designers Can Learn from Arbitration, Penn St. Arb. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021).
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, Mediate Your Response: Reconciling the Benefits and Drawbacks of the New Title IX Regulations, Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. (forthcoming 2021).
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, Everything Old is New Again (A Comment on Soia Mentschikoff’s Commercial Arbitration), in Discussions in Dispute Resolution (Art Hinshaw, Andrea Schneider and Sarah R. Cole eds., 2021). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/discussions-in-dispute-resolution-9780197513248?cc=us&lang=en&
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, Arbitrator Diversity: Can It Be Achieved?, 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 965 (2021). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3744139
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, The Lost Promise of Arbitration, 70 S.M.U. L. Rev. 849 (2017). https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol70/iss4/5/
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, Curbing the Runaway Arbitrator in Commercial Arbitration: Making Exceeding the Powers Count, 68 Ala. L. Rev. 179 (2016). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2773657
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, Blurred Lines: Are Non-Attorneys Who Represent Parties in Arbitrations Involving Statutory Claims Practicing Law?, 48 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 921 (2015). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2771128
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, The Federalization of Consumer Arbitration: Possible Solutions, 2013 U. Chi. Legal F. 271 (2013). https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1514&context=uclf
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, On Babies and Bathwater: The Arbitration Fairness Act and the Supreme Court’s Recent Jurisprudence, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 457 (2011). https://houstonlawreview.org/article/4144-on-babies-and-bathwater-the-arbitration-fairness-act-and-the-supreme-court-s-recent-arbitration-jurisprudence
- Sarah Rudolph Cole, Let the Grand Experiment Begin: Pyett Authorizes Arbitration of Unionized Employees’ Statutory Discrimination Claims, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 861 (2010). https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/5614