Minnesota Law Welcomes Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff to the Faculty

The University of Minnesota Law School is thrilled to announce that Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff is joining the faculty as the Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law beginning fall 2026.

Before joining the University of Minnesota Law School, Hollander-Blumoff was a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis for twenty years. She served as vice dean from 2017-19 and as chair of the Faculty Senate Council, the university’s faculty governing body, from 2015-2017, and was twice selected by students as their faculty graduation speaker. Prior to becoming a law professor, she clerked for the Hon. Kimba M. Wood, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and also practiced law at Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP, a litigation firm in New York City specializing in white collar criminal defense.

Hollander-Blumoff's scholarship focuses on law and psychology in the context of dispute resolution, civil procedure, and federal courts. Her interdisciplinary perspective draws on psychological research and insights to better understand legal actors, systems, and norms, with particular attention to procedural justice (process fairness). She is the editor of the Research Handbook on Law and Psychology (Elgar 2024). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of journals, including the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Notre Dame Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Hastings Law Journal, William & Mary Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and Law & Social Inquiry. 

Her articles have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and the Delaware Court of Chancery, among other courts, and have been selected for presentation at the Stanford–Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, the Civil Procedure Workshop, the American Psychology–Law Society Annual Meeting, the Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, and the Junior Faculty Criminal Law Workshop. Hollander-Blumoff previously served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Civil Procedure. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has been a visiting professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and Harvard Law School.

Hollander-Blumoff conducts negotiation and conflict resolution training worldwide to professional audiences, including lawyers, doctors, executives, government officials, and non-profit leaders.

Hollander-Blumoff holds a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University, and an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Welcome, Professor Hollander-Blumoff!