Professor Lisa Blomgren Amsler

Distinguished Professor Lisa Blomgren Amsler (formerly Bingham) has served on the faculty of Indiana University's Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs since 1992. She received her B.A. (1976 magna cum laude double majors in Ancient Greek and Philosophy) from Smith College and her juris doctor (1979 with high honors) from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Amsler is also the Saltman Senior Scholar at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. With more than 140 published works in law and social science, Amsler has crossed disciplines. A fellow of both the National Academy of Public Administration and Labor and Employment Relations Association, she has received national awards from different scholarly and practice communities, including the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution for Outstanding Scholarly Work (2014), the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM)/ Harvard Project on Negotiation Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award (2006) for research that affected practice, and the American Society for Public Administration gave her the Dwight Waldo Award (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 2022, IACM gave it the Outstanding Book Award.