{"id":14217,"date":"2018-10-26T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=14217"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:35:39","slug":"two-mitchell-hamline-faculty-awarded-professorship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/26\/two-mitchell-hamline-faculty-awarded-professorship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Mitchell Hamline faculty awarded professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline professors<strong>\u00a0Allen Blair\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>David Larson\u00a0<\/strong>have been chosen to receive the 2018-19 John H. Faricy Jr. Professorship for Empirical Research in the Law.<\/p>\n<p>The professorship is rotated annually among the school\u2019s faculty members. It was created by <strong>John H. Faricy Jr. \u201982 (WMCL)<\/strong>, founder of Minneapolis-based Faricy Law, to provide professors with resources to research and test theories and legal practices using quantitative techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Blair,\u00a0a senior fellow in the Dispute Resolution Institute and the Robins Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Litigation Skills and International Dispute Resolution, will investigate how smart contracts and related technologies are incorporated into the structure of complex contracts\u2014now and in the future.\u00a0His work will involve the collection of data around existing commercial contracts and the coding and analysis of that data.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14228\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14228\" class=\"wp-image-14228 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/blair-larson-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/blair-larson-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/blair-larson-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/blair-larson-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/blair-larson.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Blair, left, and David Larson have been chosen to receive the 2018-19 Faricy Professorship.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful for the opportunities provided by the John H. Faricy Professorship,&#8221; Blair said.\u00a0 &#8220;I have become increasingly focused on\u00a0investigating the ways that technology can be harnessed to provide greater access to justice. This professorship will provide me<\/p>\n<p>with support that I need to ground my work and thinking in quality empirical analysis and data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Larson, a senior fellow in the Dispute Resolution Institute, will\u00a0research online\u00a0dispute resolution, or ODR, as a part of his professorship.<\/p>\n<p>Larson, who has been\u00a0involved with online dispute resolution for many years, plans to study how parties use the online system to resolve disputes, its effectiveness, and\u00a0how it can be improved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Faricy Chair can be awarded for empirical research in any field,&#8221; Larson said. &#8220;The fact that it has been awarded for an online dispute resolution proposal\u00a0represents significant institutional recognition of the growing importance of ODR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Larson plans to present his research findings at professional conferences and a symposium.<\/p>\n<p>John Faricy Jr. is one of a long line of family members who graduated from Mitchell Hamline legacy schools, including both of his grandfathers. His grandfather <strong>Roland J. Faricy \u201922 (SPCL)<\/strong> was co-founder of the noted St. Paul law firm Faricy, Burger, Moore, Costello &amp; Hart, and hired <strong>Warren E. Burger \u201931 (SPCL)<\/strong>, who went on to serve as chief justice of the United States from 1969-1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline professors\u00a0Allen Blair\u00a0and David Larson\u00a0have been chosen to receive the 2018-19 John H. Faricy Jr. Professorship for Empirical Research in the Law. The professorship is rotated annually among the school\u2019s faculty members. It was created by John H. Faricy Jr. \u201982 (WMCL), founder of Minneapolis-based Faricy Law, to provide professors with resources to research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/26\/two-mitchell-hamline-faculty-awarded-professorship-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Two Mitchell Hamline faculty awarded professorship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":14228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}