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As Research Director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program, Dr. Wissler conducts empirical research on mediation, arbitration, and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. Her research and writing address various policy issues relating to ADR processes and examine the factors that contribute to the use and effectiveness of ADR. Her other research interests include alternate compensation systems and decision making concerning liability and damages in civil cases.
Dr. Wissler has served as a research consultant to several state and federal courts, conducting empirical research to assess the effectiveness of their mediation and arbitration programs and to address questions regarding program policy and design. She was a member of the Task Force on Research on Mediator Techniques of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and was principal author of the Task Force Report. Dr. Wissler also was a member of the panel of consultants in the Federal Judicial Center’s Program for Consultations in Dispute Resolution, providing federal courts with technical assistance on evaluating ADR programs. She has served on the advisory board of a number of ADR research projects.
Before coming to the College of Law in 2003, Dr. Wissler was Co-Principal Investigator of the Project on Noneconomic Damages Decision Making and Director of Research for the Libel Dispute Resolution Program at the University of Iowa College of Law.
PhD Psychology and Social Structure, Boston College 1986
MA Psychology and Social Structure, Boston College 1982
BA Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1979
Roselle Wissler conducts empirical research on mediation, arbitration, and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. Her research and writing address various policy issues relating to ADR processes and examine the factors that contribute to the use and effectiveness of ADR. Her other research interests include alternate compensation systems and decision making concerning liability and damages in civil cases.
Dr. Wissler’s article, Court-Connected Settlement Procedures: Mediation and Judicial Settlement Conferences, published in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, received the award for the Outstanding Original Professional Article published in 2011 from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). The award recognizes “an article published by academics and other professionals that advances understanding in the field of ADR.”
Dr. Wissler’s article, The Effectiveness of Court-Connected Dispute Resolution in Civil Cases, published in the Conflict Resolution Quarterly in 2004, was named one of the “Most Influential Works in Alternative Dispute Resolution” in the 30th Anniversary Symposium of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution.
