Deborah R. Hensler
Deborah R. Hensler is the Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at Stanford Law School. She teaches courses on alternative dispute resolution, complex litigation, the legal profession, the use of policy analysis in the law and empirical research methods for socio-legal studies. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Prof. Hensler was Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ), a faculty member of the RAND Graduate School and a faculty member of the University of Southern California Law School.
Prof. Hensler's research focuses on dispute resolution in ordinary and complex civil litigation. She is the lead author of CLASS ACTION DILEMMAS: PURSUING PUBLIC GOALS FOR PRIVATE GAIN (2000), has written extensively about asbestos litigation, and has published numerous research monographs and journal articles on alternative dispute resolution, class actions, multi-district litigation, mass torts, and compensation for personal injury in the U.S. She has appeared before judicial, legislative and executive agencies at the state and federal level in the U.S. and consulted with bench and bar committees and task forces in the U.S., Latin America and Asia regarding a broad range of tort liability and civil procedure issues. In December 2007 she and Christopher Hodges hosted an international conference on the globalization of class actions and group litigation, which was held at Oxford University and co-sponsored by Stanford Law School and the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She and Hodges are currently co-authoring a book on the globalization of class actions which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
Prof. Hensler received her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, and her A.B. from Hunter College summa cum laude in 1963. She has served as a director of the American Arbitration Association and the American Judicature Society and is currently a member of the Rand Institute for Civil Justice Board of Overseers. In 2002, Prof. Hensler was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and received the Robert McKay Law Professor Award from the Torts and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009.
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