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Dorothy Wright Nelson was a prominent federal judge on the level just below the U.S. Supreme Court for over 40 years. Although women had few opportunities in law when she graduated, she became one of the first female law professors and deans. The book offers an in-depth look at her life and her rise as a national expert in what is now the major field of alternative dispute resolution or conflict resolution. Featuring extensive interviews with judges, professors, and legal leaders, they offer first-hand accounts and multiple perspectives on how she was an extraordinary trailblazer in a traditional, male-dominated profession.…mehr

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Dorothy Wright Nelson was a prominent federal judge on the level just below the U.S. Supreme Court for over 40 years. Although women had few opportunities in law when she graduated, she became one of the first female law professors and deans. The book offers an in-depth look at her life and her rise as a national expert in what is now the major field of alternative dispute resolution or conflict resolution. Featuring extensive interviews with judges, professors, and legal leaders, they offer first-hand accounts and multiple perspectives on how she was an extraordinary trailblazer in a traditional, male-dominated profession.
Autorenporträt
Lisa Kloppenberg serves as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit and Catholic university in Silicon Valley. From 2013-19, she was Dean of its law school. Kloppenberg also served for a decade as Dean at the University of Dayton, a Catholic and Marianist university in Ohio. Kloppenberg earned tenure at the University of Oregon and is a national expert in conflict resolution and constitutional law. She has written several books and numerous articles and essays; she co-authored a textbook on negotiation, mediation and arbitration. She has engaged in extensive service to the legal academy and profession relating to access to justice issues, curricular reform, and access, equity and affordability issues in legal education. She and her husband, Mark Zunich, have three children.