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James J. Alfini

RSI Board Member; Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law

Professor James J. Alfini has been very active in the field of ADR for more than three decades. He served as Director of Research and Assistant Executive Director of the American Judicature Society from 1976 to 1985. In 1985, he accepted a position as Professor at Florida State University College of Law and Director of Education Research at the Florida Dispute Resolution Center. While in Florida, he served on the initial Supreme Court committee on arbitration and mediation. Professor Alfini moved back to Illinois in 1991 to become Dean of Northern Illinois University's College of Law. In 2003, he left for Texas to take on the responsibilities of President and Dean of South Texas College of Law in Houston. He is a past chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the ADR Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Featured Publications

Mediation Theory and Practice; LexisNexis, 2013

Mediating in the Shadow of the Courts: A Survey of the Emerging Case Law; Arkansas Law Review, 2001

E2K Leaves Mediation in an Ethics 'Black Hole'; Dispute Resolution Magazine, 2001

Trashing, Bashing, and Hashing It Out: Is This the End of "Good Mediation"?; Florida State Law Review, 1999

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