NANCY WELSH, Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. Nancy Welsh is a leading scholar in the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with research and writing focusing primarily on negotiation and court-connected and agency-connected mediation. She has examined the procedural justice offered by these processes, their potential to resolve non-legal as well as legal issues, and the effect that the courts and institutionalized “alternative” processes have had on each other.