Professor Ellen E. Deason
The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law

"Beyond Managerial Judges"

October 23, 2018 at noon
This lecture will be held in the Faculty Lounge on the 4th floor of UNLV's RLL Building
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Ellen E. Deason is the Joanne Wharton Murphy/Classes of 1965 and 1973 Professor in Law at The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. She served as the faculty director of the Moritz LL.M. program from 2006-2010.

Her scholarly writing is primarily on topics in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and at the intersection of law and science. In addition, she has co-authored casebooks for civil procedure and ADR. In 2005, Professor Deason was appointed reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws drafting committee for a Uniform Act on Protection of Genetic Information in Employment and Insurance.

Before joining the faculty at Moritz in 2003, Professor Deason taught at the University of Illinois College of Law. She practiced law as an associate with Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C.

Professor Deason served as a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. She also was a legal assistant to Arbitrator Howard M. Holtzmann, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. She was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. Prior to attending law school, Professor Deason worked as a marine biologist, and she is widely published in scientific journals.

Professor Deason teaches Mediation, Dispute Resolution Processes: Theory and Practice, Comparative Dispute Resolution, International Commercial Arbitration, The U.S. Legal System and Legal Traditions, and Law & Genetics.

Please join us in welcoming Ellen E. Deason to the Boyd School of Law for her Faculty Enrichment lecture on October 23, 2018.