Vanderbilt University Law School
Chris Guthrie
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 Law School
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 2003-2004 Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award at Northwestern, 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 to 2008. 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 Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and Washington University. 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, before earning his master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and then 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 2008) (with Leonard R. Riskin, Richard C. Reuben, Jennifer Robbennolt and Nancy Welch)
Articles
"Carhart, Constitutional Rights, and the Psychology of Regret," 81 Southern California Law Review 877 (2008)
“'The Threes': Reimagining Supreme Court Decision Making,” Vanderbilt Law Review (2008) (with Tracey George) (essay)
“Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases,” 93 Cornell Law Review 1 (2007) (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski & Judge Andrew J. Wistrich)
"Can Judges Ignore Inadmissible Information?: The Difficulty of Deliberately Disregarding," 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1115 (2005) (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski & Judge Andrew J. Wistrich)
"Panacea or Pandora's Box? The Costs of Options in Negotiation," 88 Iowa Law Review (2003)
"Prospect Theory, Risk Preference & the Law," 97 Northwestern University Law Review 1115 (2003) (symposium)
"Inside the Judicial Mind," 86 Cornell Lew Review 777 (2001) (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Judge Andrew J. Wistrich)
"Framing Frivolous Litigation: A Psychological Theory," 67 University of Chicago Law Review 163 (2000)
Working Papers
"A Thumb on the Scale: Investigating Implicit Bias on the Bench" (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Lynn Johnson, and Andrew J. Wistrich)
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