- Phone:
- (812) 855-4556
- Email:
- lbingham@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 333
- Areas of Interest:
- Collaborative Governance ,
- Comparative Governance ,
- Dispute Resolution ,
- Dispute System Design ,
- Mediation ,
- Administrative Law ,
- Labor and Employment Law
Lisa Blomgren Amsler
Distinguished Professor
Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service
Education
- J.D., (with High Honors), University of Connecticut, 1979
- B.A., (Magna Cum Laude), Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1976
Courses
- Law and Public Affairs
- Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
- Capstone Course for Graduate Students
Biography
Professor Lisa Blomgren Amsler (formerly Bingham) has served on O'Neill’s faculty since 1992. She is an expert in collaborative governance, public engagement, dispute resolution, and labor law with more than 130 published works. Her 2005 article on new governance practice (co-authored with Tina Nabatchi and Rosemary O’Leary) was named one of the “75 Most Influential Articles” of the past 75 years by Public Administration Review. Her lead article on workplace mediation (co-authored with Cynthia J. Hallberin, Denise A. Walker and Won-Tae Chung) and published in Harvard Negotiation Law Review, is on the Social Science Research Network all-time Top 10 list of most downloaded articles in conflict resolution.
A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and Labor and Employment Relations Association, Amsler has received national awards from the American Bar Association for Outstanding Scholarship foundational to the field of dispute resolution (2014), the Rubin Theory-to-Practice award from the International Association for Conflict Management for research that affected practice (2006), and the Abner award from the Association for Conflict Resolution for excellence in research on labor and employment relations in the public sector (2002). She received the Dwight Waldo award from the American Society for Public Administration (2019) for her research, which addresses collaborative governance, public engagement, public law, dispute system design, and dispute resolution. Her newest book is Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict (with Janet Martinez and Stephanie Smith, Stanford University Press 2020). In 2020, Indiana University awarded Professor Amsler its Bicentennial Medal
Amsler is also the Saltman Senior Scholar at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Highlights
- Named 2015 LERA Fellow by the Labor and Employment Relations Association
- 100+ published works, including one of Public Administration Review's 75 Most Influential Articles
- O'Neill faculty member for 20+ years
- Elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration
- Practicing lawyer for 10 years in public sector labor and employment law
In the News
- "NLRB Ruling Could Change What It Means To Be An Employee" - Indiana Public Media News, September 7, 2015
- "Report: Public Participation Laws Need Revisions" - NACO County News, March 10, 2014
- "IU Professor Helps Lead Project to Re-think Public Participation in Government" - IU Bloomington Newsroom, December 10, 2013
Selected Works
- “Dispute System Design and Justice in Employment Dispute Resolution: Mediation at the workplace,” (chapter with C.J. Hallberlin, D.A. Walker, and W.T. Chung) in Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, Vol. IV (eds. A. Avgar and A. Colvin), Routledge, Taylor and Frances (2016) (Reprinted with permission from Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 14 (1): 1-50 (2009))
- “Collaborative Governance: Integrating Management, Politics, and Law,” Public Administration Review, 76 (5) 700-711 (Oct.1, 2016)
- “The Evolution of Social Norms in Conflict Resolution,” in Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics Revisited (C. Gopalakrishnan, ed.), pp. 221-226, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (March 16, 2016)
- “Accountability Forums and Dispute System Design,” (with J. Sherrod), Public Performance & Management Review (forthcoming)
- “Collaborative Governance: Integrating Management, Politics, and Law,”Public Administration Review, (July 15, 2016)
- “Covenant VI: Claiming Our Democracy Ten Years Later,” in The Covenant with Black America: Ten Years Later (T. Smiley, ed.), pp. 148-152. Carlsbad, CA: SmileyBooks, Hay House, Inc. (2016)
- “Christina Merchant and the State of Dispute System Design,”(with J.K. Martinez and S. E. Smith). Conflict Resolution Quarterly 33 (S1) (2015)
- “Conflict Management: Administrative Dispute Resolution,” (with R. Nesbit). In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, 3rd Ed.; Bearfield, D.; Dubnick, M., Eds.; Taylor & Francis: New York; Vol. 1, pp. 597-601 (2015)
- “Negotiating for the Public Good.” In Perry, J. and Christensen, R. (Eds.), The Handbook of Public Administration (3d Ed.), 508-527. San Francisco, CA: Wiley Jossey-Bass (2015)
- “Combating Structural Bias in Dispute System Designs that Use Arbitration: Transparency, the Universal Sanitizer,” Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation, 6. Pennsylvania State University: West Academic Publishing (2014)
- “Direct public engagement in local government,” (with T. Nabatchi). The American Review of Public Administration, 44(4): 63S-88S (2014)