Vanderbilt University Law School
Chris Guthrie
Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 322-6823
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: chris.guthrie@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 291B
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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
A leading behavioral law and economics and dispute resolution scholar, Chris Guthrie has frequently been recognized for his research and teaching. Among other awards, he has received 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, where he began his academic career. Professor Guthrie, who has served as a Visiting Professor at Washington University and Northwestern, has spent half his academic career as Associate Dean. At Vanderbilt, he served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2004 to 2008. Before entering the legal academy, Professor Guthrie practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.
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)
“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)
“The Threes,” Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2008) (with Tracey E. George) (essay)
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