Nancy A. Welsh is Professor of Law and Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at Texas A&M University School of Law. In 2016-2017, she was Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution.
Professor Welsh is a leading scholar and teacher of dispute resolution and procedural law. She examines negotiation, mediation, arbitration, judicial settlement, and dispute resolution in U.S. and international contexts, focusing on self-determination, procedural justice, due process, and institutionalization dynamics. Professor Welsh has written more than 60 articles and chapters that have appeared in law reviews, professional publications and books and is co-author of Dispute Resolution and Lawyers, 5th ed. In 2006, she conducted research in the Netherlands as a Fulbright Scholar and taught at Tilburg University. In 2016, she was named a Visiting Scholar of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her article, The Thinning Vision of Self-Determination in Court-Annexed Mediation: The Inevitable Price of Institutionalization?, was recognized as one of the three most-cited articles from the first ten years of the existence of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. In 2018, the Texas Bar Foundation selected her article, Do You Believe in Magic?: Self-Determination and Procedural Justice Meet Inequality in Court-Connected Mediation, for its Outstanding Law Journal Article Award.
Before joining the legal academy, Professor Welsh was the executive director of Mediation Center in Minnesota and practiced law with Leonard, Street and Deinard. In 1997, she was named a Leading Minnesota Attorney. In 2011, she received the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators’ Most Valuable Peacemaker Award. She has advised state legislatures and federal and state agencies and courts regarding the institutionalization of dispute resolution, conducted empirical research, convened roundtables and symposia on various dispute resolution topics, and served as a mediator, facilitator and arbitrator.
Professor Welsh presents nationally and internationally, conducts training, and teaches Civil Procedure, Mediation, and Dispute System Design Seminar. Before joining Texas A&M, she was Professor of Law and William Trickett Faculty Scholar at Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law, receiving the Teaching Excellence Award in 2010. She earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Allegheny College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Auswahl an Publikationen / Selection of publications:
- Welsh, Nancy: Do You Believe in Magic: Self-Determination and Procedural Justice Meet Inequality in Court-Connected Mediation, SMU Law Review 70 (2017), 721-762.
- Welsh, Nancy A.: Making deals in Court-Connected Mediation: What’s justice got to do with it? Washington University Law Quarterly 79 (2001), 787-861.
- Welsh, Nancy A.: The Thinning Vision of Self-Determination in Court-Connected Mediation: The Inevitable Price of Institutionalization? Harvard Negotiation Law Review 6 (2001), 1-96.
Prof. Nancy Welsh
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
1515 Commerce Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
nwelsh(at)law.tamu.edu
https://law.tamu.edu/faculty-staff/find-people/faculty-profiles/nancy-a-welsh
Nancy A. Welsh ist Professorin für Recht und Direktorin des Dispute Resolution Program an der Texas A&M University School of Law. In den Jahren 2016-2017 war sie Vorsitzende der ABA-Sektion für Streitbeilegung.
Professor Welsh ist eine führende Wissenschaftlerin und Lehrerin für Streitbeilegung und Prozessrecht. Sie untersucht Verhandlung, Mediation, Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, gerichtliche Beilegung und Streitbeilegung in US-amerikanischen und internationalen Kontexten mit den Schwerpunkten Selbstbestimmung, Verfahrensgerechtigkeit, Due Process und Institutionalisierungsdynamik. Professor Welsh hat mehr als 60 Artikel und Kapitel geschrieben, die in juristischen Zeitschriften, Fachpublikationen und Büchern erschienen sind, und ist Mitautorin von Dispute Resolution and Lawyers, 5th ed. 2006 forschte sie als Fulbright-Stipendiatin in den Niederlanden und lehrte an der Universität Tilburg. Im Jahr 2016 wurde sie zur Visiting Scholar des Program on Negotiation an der Harvard Law School und zum Visiting Fellow des Institute for Advanced Study an der Indiana University-Bloomington ernannt. Ihr Artikel The Thinning Vision of Self-Determination in Court-Annexed Mediation: Der unvermeidliche Preis der Institutionalisierung? wurde als einer der drei meistzitierten Artikel aus den ersten zehn Jahren des Bestehens der Harvard Negotiation Law Review anerkannt. Im Jahr 2018 wählte die Texas Bar Foundation ihren Artikel Do You Believe in Magic: Self-Determination and Procedural Justice Meet Inequality in Court-Connected Mediation für den Outstanding Law Journal Article Award aus.
Vor ihremem Eintritt in die Rechtsakademie war Professor Welsh Executive Director des Mediation Center in Minnesota und praktizierte bei Leonard, Street und Deinard. Im Jahr 1997 wurde sie zur führenden Anwältin in Minnesota ernannt. Im Jahr 2011 erhielt sie den Pennsylvania Council of Mediators‘ Most Valuable Peacemaker Award. Sie hat staatliche Gesetzgeber sowie Bundes- und Landesbehörden und Gerichte bei der Institutionalisierung der Streitbeilegung beraten, empirische Untersuchungen durchgeführt, Roundtables und Symposien zu verschiedenen Themen der Streitbeilegung einberufen und als Mediatorin, Moderatorin und Schiedsrichterin fungiert.
Professor Welsh hält national und international Vorträge, führt Schulungen durch und lehrt Zivilprozessrecht, Mediation und Dispute System Design Seminar. Bevor sie zu Texas A&M kam, war sie Professorin für Recht und William Trickett Faculty Scholar an der Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law, und erhielt 2010 den Teaching Excellence Award. Sie erhielt ihren B.A. magna cum laude vom Allegheny College und ihren J.D. von der Harvard Law School.
