David Larson
ProfessorEmail: dlarson@gw.hamline.edu
Phone: 651 523-2128
B.A., DePauw University
J.D., University of Illinois College of Law
LL.M., University of Pennsylvania Law School
Areas of legal expertise: Employment discrimination law & labor law (including international & comparative), ADR (arbitration & online dispute resolution), torts (medical malpractice).
Professor Larson, a Senior Fellow at Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute, teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR and Technology, Torts, Employment Discrimination Law, Employment Law, and Labor Law. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment" (CCH Inc.), served as an arbitrator for the Omaha Tribe, was a Hearing Examiner for the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission, and currently is an arbitrator for the National Arbitration Forum.
Professor Larson has published more than 40 articles and book chapters and has made more than 120 professional presentations in Sweden, Ireland, Austria, China, Australia, England, and the United States. His recent articles have focused on technology mediated dispute resolution (TMDR), a term that includes more technologies than the phrase online dispute resolution (ODR). He also has written about the War in Iraq. Those articles are available at http://ssrn.com/author=709717. He has been a leader in the American Bar Association and his many assignments include Vice-Chair for the Section of Dispute Resolution, Law School Education and Dispute Prevention Committee and Vice-Chair for the International Law and Practice Section, Employment Law Committee. He also was a member of the ABA E-Commerce and ADR Task Force.
From 1990-91, Professor Larson served as the "Professor-in-Residence" at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. He worked primarily in the Office of General Counsel, Appellate Division, and also worked with the Office of Legal Counsel as they drafted and revised the Regulations and Interpretive Guidance for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Professor Larson previously practiced with a large litigation law firm in Minneapolis.
Publications
- Artificial Intelligence: Robots, Avatars, and the Demise of the Human Mediator, 25(1) OH. ST. J. DISP. RESOL. (forthcoming).
- Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution and the Deaf Community, 3 HEALTH L. & POL'Y 1 (2009).
- Conflicts of Interest and Disclosures: Are We Making a Mountain out of a Molehill?,
49 S. TEX. L. REV. 879 (2008).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution Can Improve the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Ethical Practices System: The Deaf Community is Well Prepared and Can Lead by Example,
10 CARDOZO J. CONFLICT RESOL. 131 (2008).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (TMDR): Opportunities and Dangers,
38 U. TOL. L. REV. 213 (2006).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (TMDR): A New Paradigm for ADR,
21 OHIO ST. J. DISP. RESOL. 629 (2006).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Understanding the Cost of the War in Iraq and How that Realization Can Affect International Law,
13 CARDOZO J. INT’L & COMP. L. 387 (2005).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Online Dispute Resolution: Technology Takes a Place at the Table,
20 NEGOTIATION J. 129 (2004).
Wiley Interscience
PDF - Online Dispute Resolution: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?,
19 NEGOTIATION J. 199 (2003).
Wiley Interscience PDF - The First International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution: Is this Big, Different and New?, 19 INT’L J. ARB. 379 (2002) (with others).
- United States Labor and Employment Law, in INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW (Dennis Campbell, ed., 1996).
- Equal Pay - Comparable Worth, in EUROPEAN UNION LAW AFTER MAASTRICHT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR LAWYERS OUTSIDE THE COMMON MARKET (Ralph H. Folsom, Ralph B. Lake, and Ved P Nanda, eds., 1996).
- What Can You Say, Where Can You Say It, and To Whom? A Guide to Understanding and Preventing Unlawful Sexual Harassment,
25 CREIGHTON L. REV. 827 (1992).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - EQUAL PAY – COMPARABLE WORTH, IN EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW AFTER 1992: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR LAWYERS OUTSIDE THE EC (Ralph H. Folsom, Ralph B. Lake & Ved P. Nanda, eds., Kluwer Law and Taxation, 1992).
- Long Overdue: The Single Guaranteed Minimum Income Program,
69 U. DET. MERCY L. REV. 353 (1992).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Title VII Compensation Issues Affecting Bilingual Hispanic Employees,
23 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 821 (1991).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Subcontracting and the Duty to Bargain,
17 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 255 (1990).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants: A Fundamental Blow to Collective Bargaining,
54 MO. L. REV. 943 (1989).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Teachers, in ANTIEAU ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW (Chester James Antieau & Sandra M. Stevenson, eds., 1989).
- Mental Impairments and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
48 LA. L. REV. 841 (1988).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Sweden's Experience with Just Cause Dismissal,
11 YALE J. INT’L L. 504 (1986).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - What Disabilities Are Protected under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?,
16 MEM. ST. U. L. REV. 229 (1986); reprinted in 37 LAB. L.J. 752 (1986).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Just Cause Dismissal: Sweden's Experience, in SELECTED PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW ASSOCIATION NATIONAL PROCEEDINGS (1985).
- Protection for At-Will Employees: A Comparative Study of Sweden and the United States,
9 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT’L L.J. 1 (1985).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - The 'As Is' Disclaimer and the Sale of New Houses,
13 REAL EST. L.J. 238 (1985).
Available in Hamline Law Library Periodicals Collection - Resolving the Paradox of the Innocent Construction Rule,
7 AM. J. TRIAL ADVOC. 481 (1984).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Accountant-Client Privilege Statutes: A Clear Need for Reform,
8 SETON HALL LEGIS. J. 209 (1984).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - What is the Appropriate Statute of Limitations for the Implied Warranty of Habitability?,
7 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L.J. 689 (1984).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Employment-at-Will in Sweden and the United States,in SELECTED PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW ASSOCIATION NATIONAL PROCEEDINGS (1984).
- The Demise of the Innocent Construction Rule, in SELECTED PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW ASSOCIATION NATIONAL PROCEEDINGS (1983).