Deborah R. Hensler
Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Deborah Hensler, Developing an Empirical Research Agenda on Access to Justice in Class and Mass Actions, in Accessing Justice: Appraising Class Actions Ten Years after Dutton, Hollick & Rumley, editor, Jasminka Kalajdzic, Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Canada, 2011.
Deborah R. Hensler, The Future of Mass Litigation: Global Class Actions and Third-Party Litigation Funding, 79 George Washington Law Review 306 (2011)
Deborah Hensler, Financing Civil Litigation: the US Perspective, in New Trends in Financing Civil Litigation in Europe, Mark Tuil and Louis Visscher, (Eds.), Cheltanham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010.
Deborah Hensler, Using Class Actions to Enforce Consumer Protection Law, Geraint Howells, Iain Ramsay, and Thomas Wilhelmsson, eds., in Handbook of Research on International Consumer Law, Edward Elgar, 2010.
Deborah Hensler, Christopher Hodges & Magdalena Tulibacka, "The Globalization of Class Actions," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 622 (2009).
Deborah R. Hensler, Jurors in the Material World: Putting Tort Verdicts in Their Social Context, 13 Roger Williams University Law Review 8 (Winter 2008).
Deborah R. Hensler, Has the Fat Lady Sung? The Future of Mass Toxic Torts, 26 Review of Litigation 883 (2007).
Deborah Hensler, "Mass Torts," in David Clark ed. Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives (2007).
Deborah Hensler, A Brief History of Asbestor Litigation in the United States, 826 New Business Law 28 (2006). (translated into Japanese by Machiko Furuyama)
Deborah Hensler, Bringing Shutts Into the Future: Rethinking Protection of Future Claimants in Mass Tort Class Actions, 74 UMKC Law Review 585 (2006).
Stephen J. Carroll, Deborah R. Hensler, Jennifer Gross, Elizabeth M. Sloss, Matthias Schonlau, Allan Abrahamse, J.Scott Ashwood, Asbestos Litigation, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Institute for Civil Justice, 2005. MG-162. 170 pages.
Deborah R. Hensler, Alternative Courts? Litigation-Induced Claims Resolution Facilities, 57 Stanford Law Review 1429 (2005).
Linda Demaine and Deborah R. Hensler, Choosing Arbitration: What Consumer Contracts Tell the Average Joe About His Options, 67 Law & Contermporary Problems (forthcoming 2004).
Deborah R. Hensler, Volunteering' to Arbitrate Through Predispute Arbitration Clauses: The Average Consumer's Experience, 67 Law & Contemporary Problems 55 (2004). (with Linda J. Demaine)
Deborah R. Hensler, Money Talks: Searching for Justice Through Compensation for Personal Injury and Death, 53 DePaul Law Review 417-455 (Winter 2003).
Deborah R. Hensler, Two Takes on the Civil Litigation Wars: Book Review of The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law, by Walter K. Olson, and Laywers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle Over Litigation in American Society, by Thomas F. Burke, 87 Judicature 83-85 (2003).
Deborah R. Hensler, "Our Courts, Ourselves: How the Alternative Dispute Resolution Movement is Re-Shaping Our Legal System," 108 Penn State Law Review 165-197 (2003).
Deborah R. Hensler, Suppose It's Not True: Challenging Mediation Ideology, 2002 Journal of Dispute Resolution 81-99 (2002).
Deborah R. Hensler, As Time Goes By: Asbestos Litigation After AMCHEM and ORTIZ, 80 Texas Law Review 1899-1924 (June, 2002).
Deborah R. Hensler, et al, Asbestos Litigation Costs and Compensation: An Interim Report, Santa Monica, CA.: Rand Institute for Civil Justice, 2002 (99 pages).

dhensler@stanford.edu

650.723.0146

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA City University of New York 1963
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1973<h3>Website</h3>
<a href="http://globalclassactions.stanford.edu">Global Class Actions Exchange</a>

Expertise:

Civil Procedure and Litigation
Class Actions & Mass Litigation
Law and Society
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
Public Policy and Empirical Studies