Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club – Dispute Systems Design with Janet Martinez and Lisa Amsler

November 9, 2021

Recording of Mediate.com’s Great Reads Book Club on 8/27/21 with Prof. Janet Martinez and Prof. Lisa Amsler talking about their book (written with Stephanie Smith) Dispute Systems Design, hosted by Howard Gadlin.

Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing and Resolving Conflict, by Janet K. Martinez, Lisa Amsler and Stephanie E. Smith. Published by Stanford University Press, 2020.

Howard Gadlin interviews Janet and Lisa and then opens the floor for questions, comments, and an exchange of ideas. This book is available to purchase HERE

Janet Martinez

Janet Martinez is Director, Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program; Director, Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative Janet focuses her research and consulting on the lawyer’s role in negotiation, domestically and internationally; dispute system design; online dispute resolution; facilitation of public disputes, particularly in the fields of international trade and the… MORE >

Lisa Amsler

Professor Lisa Blomgren Amsler (formerly Bingham) has served on the faculty since 1992. She is an expert in collaborative governance, public engagement, dispute system design, dispute resolution, and labor and employment law with more than 140 published works. Her 2005 article on new governance practice (co-authored with Tina Nabatchi and… MORE >

Howard Gadlin

Howard Gadlin is the former Ombudsman and Director of the Center for Cooperative Resolution, at the National Institutes of Health since the beginning of 1999. Before that, from 1992 through 1998, he was University Ombudsperson and Adjunct Professor of Education at UCLA. He was also director of the UCLA Conflict Mediation… MORE >