Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff
Professor of Law
Office
Anheuser-Busch Hall
Room 539
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About Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff
Professor Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff focuses on law and psychology in the context of dispute resolution. Her interdisciplinary perspective on legal dispute resolution uses psychological research and insights to better understand the role of legal actors, systems, and norms. She also explores the relationship between human behavior and dispute resolution systems, particularly in the context of legal negotiation and civil procedure. Her work has been selected for presentation at the Stanford–Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, the American Psychology–Law Society Annual Meeting, the Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, and the Junior Faculty Criminal Law Workshop. Professor Hollander-Blumoff previously served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Civil Procedure. Before becoming a law professor, she clerked for the Hon. Kimba M. Wood, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also practiced law at Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP, a litigation firm in New York City specializing in white collar criminal defense. In addition to her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, Professor Hollander-Blumoff holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from New York University, where she formerly served as an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program, as well as a research fellow at the Institute of Judicial Administration. Professor Hollander-Blumoff teaches negotiation skills worldwide to professional audiences including lawyers, doctors, executives, government officials, and non-profit leaders. Professor Hollander-Blumoff has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and Harvard Law School.
Education
- J.D., Harvard Law School, 1996
- Ph.D., New York University, 2011
- A.B., Harvard College, 1992
Courses
- Civil Procedure
- Federal Courts
- Negotiation
- Law & Psychology
Areas of Expertise
- Negotiation & Dispute Resolution
- Law & Psychology
- Civil Procedure
- Federal Courts
Scholarship
- Modeling Hope: Economic Aspirations in Negotiation (Commentary on “Aspirations and Settlement”), in DISCUSSIONS IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION (VOLUME II): THE COMING OF AGE (2000-2009) (HINSHAW, SCHNEIDER, AND COLE, EDS.) (forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2025)
- HANDBOOK ON RESEARCH IN LAW & PSYCHOLOGY, EDITOR (Elgar 2024)
- The Procedural Justice of Personal Jurisdiction, 65 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW (2023)
- The Market as Negotiation, 96 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 1257 (2021) (with Matthew T. Bodie)
- Taking Human Behavior Seriously (Commentary on “Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law”), in DISCUSSIONS IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION: THE FORMATIVE ARTICLES (HINSHAW, SCHNEIDER, AND COLE, EDS.) (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- It’s Complicated: Reflections on Teaching Negotiation for Women 62 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 77 (2020) (special volume)
- Law and Social Psychology Methods, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIO-LEGAL THEORY AND METHODS (2019)
- Social Value Orientation and the Law, 59 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 475 (2017)
- Novel Negotiation, 2017 JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 61 (symposium issue)
- Fairness Beyond the Adversary System: Procedural Justice Norms for Legal Negotiation, 85 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 2081 (2017) (symposium issue)
- Building Relationships as Negotiation Strategy, in THE NEGOTIATOR’S DESK REFERENCE (DRI Press, St. Paul 2017)
- Formation of Procedural Justice Judgments in Legal Negotiation, 26 GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION 19 (2017)
- Procedural Justice and Policing: Four New Directions, 52 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 67 (2016) (symposium issue)
- Crime, Punishment, and the Psychology of Self-Control, 61 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 501 (2012)
- The Psychology of Procedural Justice in the Federal Courts, 63 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 127 (2011)
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Compliance Motivations in Law: Comment on Feldman, 35 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 53 (2011) (symposium issue)
- Procedural Justice and the Rule of Law: Fostering Legitimacy in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2011 JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 1 (with Tom R. Tyler) (symposium issue)
- Just Negotiation, 88 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 381 (2010) (selected for presentation at the 2009 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum)
- Law and the Stable Self, 54 ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 1173 (2010) (symposium issue)
- Procedural Justice in Negotiation: Procedural Fairness, Outcome Acceptance, and Integrative Potential, 33 LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY 473 (2008) (with Tom R. Tyler)
- Social Psychology, Information Processing, and Plea Bargaining, 91 MARQUETTE LAW REVIEW 163 (2007) (symposium issue)
- The Effects of Jury Ignorance about Damage Caps: The Case of the 1991 Civil Rights Act, 90 IOWA LAW REVIEW 1361 (2005) (with Matthew T. Bodie)
- Legal Research on Negotiation, 10 INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION 149 (2005)
- Note, Getting to “Guilty”: Plea Bargaining as Negotiation, 2 HARVARD NEGOTIATION LAW REVIEW 115 (1997)
- Book Note, Breaking Down Barriers, 1 HARVARD NEGOTIATION LAW REVIEW 257 (1996) (reviewing Kenneth Arrow et al., Barriers to Conflict Resolution (1996))
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Activity & Affiliations
- Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development, 2017-2019
- Chair, Faculty Senate Council, Washington University, 2015 – 2017; Ex Officio, 2017-2018
- Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Civil Procedure, 2009-2015; Chair, 2014
- Member, American Law Institute, elected 2012
- Society for Empirical Legal Studies, Board of Directors 2014-2017, Co-President 2015
- Fellow, Society for Empirical Legal Studies, 2015-present
Honors & Awards
- Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, 2009
- Voice of the Faculty, Washington University Law School Commencement, 2018, 2021