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Lisa Amsler

Distinguished Professor, Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service

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lbingham@indiana.edu
Research areas:
Civil Society Civic Engagement and Volunteering
Governance and Public Law
Local Governance
Public Management
Areas of Interest:
Collaborative Governance
Dispute Resolution
Dispute System Design
Public Law

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • J.D., (with High Honors), University of Connecticut School of Law, 1979
  • B.A., (Magna Cum Laude), Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1976

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  • Law and Public Affairs
  • Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
  • Capstone Course for Graduate Students

Biography

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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 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 Rosemary O’Leary) was named one of the “75 Most Influential Articles” of the past 75 years by Public Administration Review and in the top one percent of most-cited articles in public affairs in the past 30 years. Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Formative Articles (Art Hinshaw, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, and Sarah Cole, eds., Oxford University Press) named her article "Employment Arbitration: The Repeat Player Effect" as foundational to the field. Her lead article on workplace mediation (co-authored with Cynthia J. Hallberlin, Denise A. Walker and Won-Tae Chung) and published in Harvard Negotiation Law Review, is among the Social Science Research Network's most downloaded articles in conflict resolution.

A fellow of both the National Academy of Public Administration and Labor and Employment Relations Association, Amsler has received national awards from the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution for Outstanding Scholarly Work (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 distinguished contributions to the professional literature of public administration. 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

  • Awarded Indiana University Bicentennial Medal in 2020
  • 140+ published works, including one of Public Administration Review's 75 Most Influential Articles
  • O'Neill faculty member for 30+ 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

  • “Collaborative Governance: Integrating Management, Politics, and Law,” Public Administration Review, 76 (5) 700-711 (2016)
  • Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict, (with Janet K. Martinez and Stephanie Smith), Menlo Park, CA: Stanford University Press (2020)
  • “Collaborative Governance in Local Government: How State Law Shapes Community Problem-Solving on Climate Change through Intrastate Preemption,” (with T. Vieilledent), Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Vol. 4(2): 159–169, (April 2021)
  • “Teaching Democracy through Practice: Collaborative Governance on Campus,” (with E. Boruvka), Journal of Dispute Resolution2019 (1): 76-112 (Missouri JDR) (2019)
  • “Collaborative Public Management and Systems Thinking,” (with R. O’Leary), International Journal of Public Sector Management, 30(6-7):626-639, (2017)
  • “Dispute System Design and Justice in Employment Dispute Resolution: Mediation at the workplace,” (with C.J. Hallberlin, D.A. Walker, and W.T. Chung), Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 14 (1): 1-50 (2009)
  • “Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation,” (with Patrick Hibbard, M.S. Jackman), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, (Oct. 29, 2021)
  • “Disputant Experience and Preferences for Mediated or Adjudicated Processes in Administrative Agencies: The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Settlement Part Program,” (with D. Malatesta, S.F. Scott), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 73(2): 552-570, (Oct. 17, 2019)
  • “Why the Haves Come Out Further and Further Ahead: The Repeat Player Effect, Control over Dispute System Design, and Justice,”Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Formative Articles (Art Hinshaw, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, and Sarah Cole, eds.), pp. 273-293 including reprinted excerpt. Amsler commentary, pp. 290-296. New York: Oxford University Press, (2021
    • Invited Commentary on my target article termed Formative by the editors: Bingham, L. B. (1997). Employment Arbitration: The Repeat Player Effect. Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, 1(1): 189-220
  • “Collaborative Governance and Rules of the Game in the United States,” The Intersector: How the Public, Non-Profit and Private Sectors Can Address America's Challenges, (Daniel P. Gitterman and Neil Britto, editors), pp. 82-90. Washington, DC:  Brooking Institution Press, (2021)
  • “Public Engagement and Decision-Making: Moving Minnesota Forward to Dialogue and Deliberation,” (with T. Nabatchi), Wm. Mitchell Law Review, 42(5): 1629-1681, (2016)

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