Rebecca Hollander-Blumhoff

Professor Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff is the Harlan Albert Rogers Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Her scholarly work focuses on law and psychology in the context of dispute resolution, civil procedure, and federal courts. Her interdisciplinary perspective uses psychological research and insights to better understand legal actors, systems, and norms, focusing in particular on the role of procedural justice. She was the editor of the Research Handbook on Law and Psychology (Elgar 2024) and 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, Arizona Law Review, and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. Her articles have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and Delaware Court of Chancery, among other courts, and has been selected for presentation at the Stanford–Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, the American Psychology–Law Society Annual Meeting, the Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, and the Junior Faculty Criminal Law Workshop. Professor Hollander-Blumoff previously served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Civil Procedure. She is also a member of the American Law Institute.

Before joining the University of Minnesota Law School, she was professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis for twenty years, where she served as Vice Dean from 2017-2019 and as the Chair of the Faculty Senate Council, the university’s faculty governing body, from 2015-2017. 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.

In addition to her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, Professor Hollander-Blumoff holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from New York University, where she formerly served as an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program as well as a research fellow at the Institute of Judicial Administration.

Professor Hollander-Blumoff conducts negotiation and conflict resolution training worldwide to professional audiences including lawyers, doctors, executives, government officials, and non-profit leaders. Professor Hollander-Blumoff has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and Harvard Law School.