Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff
Associate Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 535
Phone: (314) 935-6043
E-mail: hollanderblumoff@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Pam Finnigan - (314) 935-6419
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
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Courses Taught
Advanced Negotiation Seminar
Negotiation
Civil Procedure
Law & Psychology
Education
A.B., Harvard College
J.D., Harvard Law School
Profile
Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff, an Associate Professor at Washington University School of Law, focuses on the intersection of law and psychology in the context of dispute resolution. Her teaching, research and scholarship explore the relationship between human behavior and dispute resolution systems, particularly in the context of legal negotiation and civil procedure. Her work has been published in Law & Social Inquiry, the Iowa Law Review, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and International Negotiation. Her article, “Just Negotiation,” was selected for presentation at the 2009 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Civil Procedure.
Professor Hollander-Blumoff joined the Washington University School of Law faculty in July 2006 from New York University School of Law, where she was a research fellow at the Institute of Judicial Administration. Prior to her fellowship, she served for three years as an Acting Assistant Professor at New York University School of Law, where she taught basic jurisprudence, legal research and writing, interactive skills and oral advocacy in the Lawyering Program. Professor Hollander-Blumoff also previously taught negotiation at Seton Hall University School of Law.
Professor Hollander-Blumoff received her A.B. in History and Literature, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. She also received a Diploma of Hispanic Studies from the Universidad de la Complutense in Madrid, Spain. While in law school, she served as Vice-President of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and was a member of the Editorial Boards of both the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and the Harvard Women's Law Journal.
After law school, Professor Hollander-Blumoff clerked for United States District Judge Kimba M. Wood of the Southern District of New York. She then practiced law at Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP, a litigation firm in New York City specializing in white collar criminal defense.
Professor Hollander-Blumoff is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Psychology at New York University. Her doctoral research is an empirical investigation of the effects and antecedents of procedural justice in legal negotiation. In her teaching and scholarship, she draws on her background in both law and psychology to offer an interdisciplinary perspective on legal dispute resolution, using psychological research and insights to better understand the role of legal actors, systems and norms.