Bobbi McAdoo
ProfessorEmail: bmcadoo@hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2340
B.A., Principia College (1970)
J.D., National Law Center, George Washington University (1979)
Areas of legal expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), mediation and negotiation; empirical research on ADR; design and development of court ADR programs
Professor McAdoo has taught at the law school since 1984 and founded and directed the Dispute Resolution Institute from 1991 to 1998. She also started the successful summer program of courses at Hamline, taught by nationally prominent ADR professors and practitioners. She is a leader in the provision of negotiation and mediation skills training for lawyers and judges in Minnesota and nationally. From 1998 to 2001, Professor McAdoo was professor and director of the LL.M. in Dispute Resolution degree program at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
She has worked with state courts institutionalizing ADR, and has written and lectured widely on mediation and her research into the expectations of lawyers and judges in court-annexed mediation programs. Professor McAdoo frequently speaks on evaluation in the ADR field and was a member of the advisory bodies to both the Minnesota and Missouri Supreme Court ADR efforts. She served as a trainer for the national USPS REDRESS mediation program and was an arbitrator for class action claims involving Northwest Airlines and the Dalkon Shield Claimants’ trust.
Professor McAdoo’s current national service includes the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution CLE board, and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. She was co-chair of the first Legal Educator’s Colloquium sponsored by AALS and the Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA. Professor McAdoo is a past chair of the AALS Dispute Resolution Section. Consistent with her interest in evaluation, her current teaching includes an innovative ADR research course for J.D. and international LL.M. students to accomplish research and evaluation in the ADR field. She was Hamline’s director for the Dispute Resolution Institute Italy program in (summer) 2004 and the India program in 2005.
Publications
- Physicians: Listen Up and Take Your Communications Skills Training Seriously,
29 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL'Y 287 (2008).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - All Rise, the Court Is in Session: What Judges Say about Court-Connected Mediation,
22 OHIO ST. J. DISP. RESOL. 377 (2007).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - Look Before You Leap and Keep on Looking: Lessons from the Institutionalization of Court-Connected Mediation,
5 NEV. L.J. 399 (2004/2005) (with Nancy A. Welsh).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Court-Connected General ADR Programs: Aiming for Institutionalization, Efficient Resolution and the Experience of Justice, in ADR HANDBOOK FOR JUDGES (Stienstra and Yates, eds. 2004).
- If It Weren't for the Client I'd Have Done a Great Job,
20 CONFLICT RESOL. Q. 4 (2003) (with Sandra Kaufman).
Available in Hamline Law Library Periodicals Collection - A Report to the Minnesota Supreme Court: The Impact of Rule 114 on Civil Litigation Practice in Minnesota,
25 HAMLINE L. REV. 401 (2002).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - The Challenge of Institutionalizing Alternative Dispute Resolution: Attorney Perspectives on the Effect of Rule 17 on Civil Litigation in Missouri,
67 MO. L. REV. 473 (2002) (with Art Hinshaw).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Alternative Dispute Resolution in Minnesota - An Update on Rule 114, in COURT-ANNEXED MEDIATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS (E. Bergman & J. Bickerman, eds., 1998) (with Nancy Welsh).
- Does ADR Really Have a Place on the Lawyer's Philosophical Map?,
18 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL'Y 376 (1996-1997) (with Nancy Welsh).
Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Introduction: Minnesota's Alternative Dispute Resolution Provider Organizations,
16 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL'Y 313 (1994-1995) (with Nancy Welsh).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline
PDF - The Minnesota ADR Experience: Exploration to Institutionalization,
12 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL’Y 65 (1991).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Local Government Use of Mediation for Resolution of Public Disputes,
22 URB. LAW. 179 (1990) (with Larry Bakken).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - The Class Action Notice under the FLSA: Denial Is a Threat To Effective Remedies in ADEA Actions,
91 DICK. L. REV. 357 (1986-1987).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Not Quite Protocols: Toward Collaborative Research in Dispute Resolution,
19 CONFLICT RESOL. Q. 75 (2001) (with Christopher Honeyman & Nancy Welsh).
Available in Hamline Law Library Periodicals Collection - Here There Be Monsters: At the Edge of the Map of Conflict Resolution, THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION PRACTITIONER (Office of Dispute Resolution, Georgia Supreme Court 2001) (with Christopher Honeyman and Nancy Welsh).