Douglas H. Yarn
Professor of Law Emeritus, Executive Director, CNCR Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution- Education
M.Litt., University of Cambridge
J.D., University of Georgia
B.A., Duke University
- Specializations
- Biography
Douglas H. Yarn teaches in the areas of conflict resolution and professional responsibility and serves as executive director of the Inter-University Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, a leading multidisciplinary theory-building center.
Before joining the Georgia State Law faculty, Yarn practiced as a litigator, in-house counsel for an investment banking firm, and in-house attorney, mediator, and panelist trainer for the American Arbitration Association. He has trained mediators and arbitrators worldwide, drafted arbitration legislation, and designed conflict management systems for private and public entities in the United States and abroad.
Yarn has facilitated and mediated hundreds of civil legal disputes and numerous public policy disputes involving issues such as access to health care, land use, and the environment. He has served as consultant to the Permanent Court of Arbitration and to numerous institutions of higher education in the United States and many other countries. His publications include, practice treatises on alternative dispute resolution, the authoritative dictionary for conflict resolution, book chapters, and articles.
His current research focuses on the biological foundations of conflict resolution, reconciliation, apology and forgiveness, case outcome prediction, and persuasion.
- Publications
Books
Douglas H. Yarn, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (2014 ed., Thomson/West)
Douglas H. Yarn & Gregory Todd Jones, Georgia Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice And Procedure In Georgia (3d ed., Thomson West 2006 & Supp. 2007-2013).
Douglas H. Yarn, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (2nd ed., The Harrison Company Publishers) (with Shinji Morokuma)
Douglas H. Yarn, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (3rd ed., Thomson/West) (with Gregory T. Jones)
Douglas H. Yarn, Dictionary of Conflict Resolution (Jossey-Bass 1999).
Douglas H. Yarn, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in North Carolina (Harrison Co. 1998 & Supp. 1998-2001).
Douglas H. Yarn, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (2d ed., Harrison Co. 1997 & Supp. 1998-2002).
Douglas H. Yarn & Michael Elliott, The Facility Issues Negotiation Process of the Georgia Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act: An Evaluation with Recommendations (Inter-University Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution 1994).
Douglas H. Yarn, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (Harrison Co. 1992 & Supp. 1993-1996).
Douglas H. Yarn, International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights under the United States Trade Laws (Dean Rusk Center for International and Comparative Law 1986).
Book Chapters
Douglas H. Yarn, Mediation in den USA, inHandbuch Mediation (201^).
Douglas Hurt Yarn, Mini-Trials and Summary Jury Trials, in Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide (Bette J. Roth, Randall W. Wulff, & Charles A. Cooper eds., 2008).
Douglas H. Yarn, Mediation in the U.S.A., in The German Mediation Handbook (C.H. Beck; Munich, 2008).
Douglas H. Yarn & Gregory Todd Jones, In Our Bones (or Brains): Behavioral Biology, in The Negotiator's Fieldbook (American Bar Association, 2006).
Douglas H. Yarn, Ethical Duties and Best Practices When Engaging a Mediator, in Dispute Resolution Ethics: A Comprehensive Guide (Phyllis Bernard & Bryant Garth eds., American Bar Association, 2002).
Douglas H. Yarn, Law, Love, and Reconciliation: Searching for Natural Conflict Resolution in Homo Sapiens, in Natural Conflict Resolution (Filippo Aureli & Frans B.M. De Waal eds., University of California Press, 2000).
Douglas H. Yarn, Mediation/Arbitration, in ADR: A Practical Guide to Resolve Construction Disputes: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Construction Field (Alan E. Harris et al. eds., Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1994).
Douglas H. Yarn, Minitrials, in ADR: A Practical Guide to Resolve Construction Disputes: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Construction Field (Alan E. Harris et al. eds., Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1994).
Douglas H. Yarn, Negotiation, in ADR: A Practical Guide to Resolve Construction Disputes: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Construction Field (Alan E. Harris et al. eds., Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1994).
Douglas H. Yarn, Private Judges, in ADR: A Practical Guide to Resolve Construction Disputes: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Construction Field (Alan E. Harris et al. eds., Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1994).
Douglas H. Yarn, Developing a Comprehensive Internal Dispute Resolution System, in Resolving Conflict: Strategies for Local Government (Margaret S. Herrman ed., International City/County Management Association, 1994).
Douglas H. Yarn, Mediation, in The American Arbitration Association Manual on Insurance ADR (James B. Boskey ed., Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 1994).
Douglas Hurt Yarn, Mini-Trials and Summary Jury Trials, in The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide (Bette J. Roth et al. eds., Lawyers' Cooperative Publishing Co., 1993-).
Articles
Douglas Hurt Yarn, Evolution and Dueling Dispute Processing, 44 Evolution & Hum. Behavior 272 (2023).
Douglas H. Yarn, Requiem or Resurgence?, 37 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 533 (2022).
Doug Yarn, Designing a Conflict Management System for Higher Education: A Case Study for Design in Integrative Organizations, 32 Conflict Resol. Q. 83 (2014).
Gregory Todd Jones & Douglas H. Yarn, Designing Arbitration: Biological Substrates and Asymmetry in Risk and Reward, 12 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 123 (2011).
Doug Yarn, Fostering Consent, Times Higher Educ. Suppl., Oct. 23, 2008, at 26.
Gregory Todd Jones, et al., Homogeneity of Degree in Complex Social Networks as a Collective Good, 24 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 931 (2008).
Gregory Todd Jones & Douglas H. Yarn, Evaluative Dispute Resolution Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Look at Bayes' Theorem and the Expected Value of Perfect Information, 2003 J. Disp. Resol. 427 (2003).
R. William Ide III & Douglas H. Yarn, Public Independent Fact-Finding: A Trust-Generating Institution for an Age of Corporate Illegitimacy and Public Mistrust, 56 Vand. L. Rev. 1113 (2003).
Douglas Yarn, The Death of ADR: A Cautionary Tale of Isomorphism Through Institutionalization, 108 Penn St. L. Rev. 929 (2003-2004).
Douglas H. Yarn, Transnational Conflict Resolution Practice: A Brief Introduction to the Context, Issues, and Search for Best Practice in Exporting Conflict Resolution, 19 Conflict Resol. Q. 303 (2002).
Erin Ann O´Hara & Douglas Yarn, On Apology and Consilience, 77 Wash. L. Rev. 1121 (2002).
Douglas H. Yarn, An Introduction to Ethics in a World of Mandatory Arbitration, 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 903 (2002).
Douglas Yarn, Ethics 2000: The ABA Proposes New Ethics Rules for Lawyer-Neutrals and Attorneys in ADR, Dispute Resolution, Spring 2001, at 3.
Douglas H. Yarn, Lawyer Ethics in ADR and the Recommendations of Ethics 2000 to Revise the Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Considerations for Adoption and State Application, 54 Ark. L. Rev. 207 (2001-2002).
Douglas H. Yarn, The Attorney as Duelist's Friend: Lessons From the Code Duello, 51 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 69 (2000-2001).
Douglas Yarn, Does a Mediator Have an Affirmative Duty to Assure That Consent to Settle is Truly Informed? Respsonse #3, Just Resolutions, Jan. 1998, at 8.
Douglas Yarn, Environmental Mediation: Great Promise, Some Problems, Water Env't & Tech. Mag., Dec. 1995, at 80.
Douglas Hurt Yarn, Commercial Arbitration in Olde England (602-1698), 50 Disp. Res. J. 68 (1995).
Douglas H. Yarn, Confessions of a Practicing Neutral, 37 Atlanta Law. 15 (1990-1991).
Douglas H. Yarn, Three Construction Mediations, AAA Punch List, Spr. 1988, at 1.
Douglas H. Yarn, Successful Mediating, AAA Claims F., Spr. 1988, at 1.
Douglas Yarn, Proposed Changes in the Arbitration Law of Georgia, Ga. St. B.J., Feb. 1987, at 152.
Douglas Yarn, Note, The Transfer of Technology and UNCLOS III, 14 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 121 (1984).
Douglas H. Yarn, Fixing the Out-of-Doors Out of Court: Use of ADR in Environmental Disputes, Fulton County Daily Rep. Envtl. L. Supp., Sept. 1993.
Douglas Yarn, Note, The Development of Canadian Law on Trans-Border Data Flow, 13 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 825 (1983).
Popular Press
Unpublished Papers
Douglas Hurt Yarn, Conflict Resolution as Evolution, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference 2010: Law, Institutions & Human Behavior, 2010.
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