Sarah R. Cole

Sarah Rudolph Cole, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Designated Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Director, Program on Dispute Resolution; B.A.,University of Puget Sound (cum laude); J.D., University of Chicago Law School (cum laude). In law school, Professor Cole was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Eugene A. Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She practiced labor and employment law with Heller, Ehrman,White & McAuliffe in Seattle and Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson in Chicago before joining the faculty at Creighton University School of Law. She joined the faculty at the Moritz College of Law in 1998 and became a full professor in 2003.  In 2006, she was named the Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Designated Professor of Law.  She is co-author, with Nancy H. Rogers and Craig A. McEwen of Mediation: Law, Policy and Practice (2d ed. 1994) and Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation and Other Processes (5th ed. 2007) with Nancy H. Rogers, Stephen Goldberg and Frank Sander. She was chair of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution’s Arbitration Committee from 2002-03.  She was also a member of the Uniform Mediation Act faculty advisory committee.  In 2006, she became director of the Moritz College of Law Program on Dispute Resolution.  She writes, teaches and speaks on a variety of alternative dispute resolution topics, particularly mediation and arbitration.

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Empirical Research on Consumer Arbitration:  What the Data Reveals.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1051.

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1 Thanks to Ted Frank and Douglas Cole for help on this article and to Tim Nittle and Catharine Adkins for research assistance.