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

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Deborah R. Hensler and Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Beyond It Just Ain't Worth It : Alternative Strategies for Damage Class Action Reform, 64 Law and Contemporary Problems 137-162 (2001)
Deborah R. Hensler, Research Methods for Policy Analysis: A Primer for Lawyers, September, 2001
Deborah R. Hensler and Judith Resnik, Contested Identities: Task Forces on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias and the Obligations of the Legal Profession, in, in Ethics in Practice: Lawyers' Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulation, edited by Deborah L. Rhode. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. p.240-263.
Deborah R. Hensler, Nicholas M. Pace, Bonita Dombey-Moore, Beth Giddens, Jennifer Gross, and Erik K. Moller, Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain, Santa Monica: Rand Institute for Civil Justice (2000)
Deborah R. Hensler, Bonnie Dombey-Moore, Beth Giddens, Jennifer Gross, Erik K. Moller and Nicholas M. Pace, Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain: Executive Summary, Santa Monica, CA: Rand Institute for Civil Justice, 1999.
Deborah R. Hensler, David M. Studdert, William M. Sage, and Carole R. Gresenz, Expanding Managed Care Liability: What Impact on Employer Coverage?, 18 Health Affairs 7-27 (November/December 1999)
Deborah R. Hensler, Do We Need an Empirical Agenda on Judicial Independence?, 72 Southern California Law Review 707-721 (1999)
Deborah R. Hensler, et al., Discovery Management: Further Analysis of the Civil Justice Reform Act Evaluation Data (Symposium: Conference on Discovery Rules), 39 Boston College Law Review 613-682 (1998).
Deborah R. Hensler, The Real World of Tort Litigation, in Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases. A. Sarat et al., eds. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997. [The article was reprinted by the Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA (1998).] p.155-176.
Judith Resnik, Dennis E. Curtis and Deborah M. Hensler, Individuals Within the Aggregate : Relationships, Representation, and Fees, 71 New York University Law Review 296 (1996).
Deborah R. Hensler, A Glass Half Full, a Glass Half Empty : the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Mass Personal Injury Litigation 73 Texas Law Review 1587 (1995).
Deborah R. Hensler and Erik Moller, Trends in Punitive Damages : Preliminary Data from Cook County, Illinois and San Francisco, California, Rand Institute for Civil Justice, DRU-1014-ICJ (1995).
Deborah R. Hensler, Does ADR Really Save Money? The Jury's Still Out, Rand Institute for Civil Justice, Rand reprints, 327 (1994). Reprinted from the National Law Journal.
Deborah R. Hensler, Informing the Tort Liability Debate : Toward a New Research Agenda, Rand Institute for Civil Justice, DRU-1121-NSF (1994).
Deborah R. Hensler, Reading the Tort Litigation Tea Leaves : What's Going on in the Civil LIability System?, 16 The Justice System Journal 139 (1993).
Deborah R. Hensler and Mark Peterson, Understanding Mass Personal Injury Litigation: A Socio-Legal Analysis, 59 Brooklyn Law Review 961 (1993).
Deborah R. Hensler, Fashioning a National Resolution of Asbestos Personal Injury Litigation : a Reply to Professor Brickman, 13 Cardozo Law Review 1967 (1992).
Deborah R. Hensler, Taking Aim at the American Legal System : the Council on Competitiveness's Agenda for Legal Reform, 75 Judicature 244 (1992).
Deborah R. Hensler, Asbestos litigation in the United States : a Brief Overview, Rand Institute for Civil Justice, P-7776-ICJ (1991).
Deborah R. Hensler, Science in the Court : Is There a Role for Alternative Dispute Resolution, 54 Law and Contemporary Problems 171 (1991).

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