Chris Guthrie

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Dean .John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law

Voice: (615) 322-9800
Fax: (615) 322-5151
Email: chris.guthrie@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Dean's Suite, Room 108
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Research Interest(s)

Behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation, mediation, judicial decision making, legal education and scholarship

Education

J.D., B.A. Stanford University
Ed.M. Harvard Graduate School of Education

Biography

Chris Guthrie is a leading expert on behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation and judicial decision making. Over the course of his academic career, he has been recognized for his research and teaching with two CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution Professional Article Prizes, the 2003-04 Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award at Northwestern University Law School, and multiple teaching and research prizes at the University of Missouri, among other awards. He is one of the authors of the influential textbook Dispute Resolution & Lawyers and has published more than 40 scholarly articles and essays in leading law journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Dean Guthrie joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2002 and served as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs from 2004-08. He became Dean in July 2009, after having spent half of his academic career serving as an associate dean at both Vanderbilt and the University of Missouri School of Law, where he taught from 1996 to 2002. During his academic career, Dean Guthrie has served as a visiting professor at the Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Washington University law schools. Before entering the legal academy, he practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.

Dean Guthrie graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University and then earned his master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a law degree from Stanford Law School. At Vanderbilt, Dean Guthrie has taught Torts, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution.

Representative Publications


Books

  • Dispute Resolution and Lawyers (West Publishing, 4th edition 2009) (with Leonard R. Riskin, Richard C.  Reuben, Jennifer Robbennolt and Nancy Welch)

Articles



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