My current appointments include Faculty Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgia State University College of Law and Director of Research at the Interuniversity Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. I direct the CNCR's Computational Laboratory for Complex Adaptive Systems. For the last couple of years I have been fortunate to be a Visiting Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany working with Christoph Engel and Martin Beckenkamp.
I began my formal education with studies in philosophy and biology at the University of the South (B.A.). At Auburn University (M.B.A.), I studied decision sciences and information systems working with Dan Page in the College of Business and the Economic Development Institute. I found my academic home at Georgia State University where I completed three degrees, a M.P.A. in policy analysis and evaluation at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, a J.D. at the College of Law, and a Ph.D. in decision sciences at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Since beginning my work with the CNCR, I have enjoyed the opportunity to study negotiation pedagogy at Harvard Law School and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management as well as complex adaptive systems and formal computation at Harvard University's program in applied sciences, the New England Complex Systems Institute's Winter School at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University's Summer Institute on Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems.
My primary research areas involve the application of behavioral economics, evolutionary game theory, and computational models of social systems to negotiation and conflict resolution. Other areas of interest include the use of statistics as evidence, legal risk analysis, and empirical legal studies. My current research investigates trust, reputation, forgiveness, and emergent conflict and cooperation in computational simulation models and explores the nexus between conflict resolution theory and the biological basis for social organization.
I have written widely, with recent articles published by the Journal of Business Ethics, the Clinical Law Review, the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, the Tennesee Law Review, the University of Miami Business Law Review, the Journal of Dispute Resolution, the Penn State Law Review, the DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal, the Royal Statistical Society, and other scholarly publishers. My major treatise on the practice and procedure of alternative dispute resolution in Georgia, co-authored with Douglas Yarn, was published by Thomson West in 2006. I have presented my research in many venues, including most recently the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, the International Association for Conflict Management, the Huber Hurst Research Seminar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law conferences at the Indiana University School of Law and the Vanderbilt University Law School.
As a statistical expert, I have given testimony in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Georgia Superior Court, and before the House Judiciary Committee of the Georgia General Assembly. I have consulted with, among others, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Attorney General’s Office, the Alabama Department of Human Resources, Auburn University’s Economic Development Institute, and the National Institute for Literacy. My scholarship related to statistical sampling evidence was recently cited by the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
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