Senior Fellow, Dispute Resolution Institute
Professor of Law
Education
B.A., DePauw University
J.D., University of Illinois College of Law
LL.M., University of Pennsylvania Law School
Areas of legal expertise: Employment discrimination law, employment law, labor law (including international and comparative), ADR (arbitration and online dispute resolution), disability law, torts (medical malpractice).
Biography
David Allen Larson is a professor of law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and senior fellow at the Dispute Resolution Institute. He has been involved with online dispute resolution (ODR) since 1999 and was the system designer helping create an ODR platform for the New York State Unified Court System (2016–23). David has been the John H. Faricy Jr. Chair for Empirical Studies and is a Lifetime Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has 70 legal publications and has made more than 240 professional presentations in 16 different countries. He is former chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, a member of the ABA House of Delegates, was Co-Chair of the Section’s ODR Standards Task Force, and was a member of the ABA E-Commerce and ADR Task Force. He teaches Arbitration Law, Disability Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Labor Law, Online Dispute Resolution Seminar, and Torts.
Professor Larson worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Office of General Counsel, Appellate Division in Washington, D.C. and, on behalf of that office, participated in drafting the Regulations and Interpretive Guidance for the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment, an arbitrator for the Omaha Tribe and other disputes, and a hearing examiner for the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission. He worked with the International Legal Resource Center (a partnership between the ABA Section of International Law and the United Nations Development Programme) and the ABA Central and East European Law Initiative. David has been a tenured professor at four different universities and colleges and practiced with a litigation law firm.
