Hollander-Blumoff Presents Scholarship at Stanford/Yale Forum

Professor Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff was selected to present her paper, “Just Negotiation,” along with a select group of distinguished young scholars, at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, which was recently held at Stanford University. Her paper was chosen by leading scholars in their fields in a blind review process from articles submitted nationally.

In her article, Hollander-Blumoff argues that procedural justice, or fairness of process, is critically important in legal negotiation, relying in part on her own prior empirical research. She suggests that although legal negotiation is largely unregulated and often thought of as a setting in which “anything goes,” social psychology provides certain unwritten norms for fair behavior in negotiation. She argues that fairness of process encourages the acceptance of and adherence to negotiated agreements. The article also explores the particular implications of the effects of fair process in legal negotiation in light of the attorney-client relationship.

In addition to the Stanford/Yale forum, Hollander-Blumoff presented the paper at a University of Missouri Law School Faculty Colloquium in April. Her other recent scholarship on negotiation includes articles published in Law & Social Inquiry and International Negotiation, and she recently has presented her work on negotiation at Marquette Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, University of Texas School of Law, and Washington University Law.