Nancy Rogers, Dean of Ohio State's Moritz College of Law,To Receive ABA D'Alemberte/Raven Dispute Resolution Award

WASHINGTON, D.C. Nancy Rogers, dean of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, has been chosen to receive the D'Alemberte/Raven Award from the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution.

The award, to be presented at the section?s spring conference on April 5 in Seattle, was created to recognize outstanding service in dispute resolution and is named in honor of former ABA presidents Robert D. Raven and Talbot S. ("Sandy") D'Alemberte.

Rogers, of Upper Arlington, has been an active proponent of mediation. She recently served as conference reporter for the Uniform Mediation Act, and was the faculty coordinator for the research and drafting support of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution when the section met jointly with the National Conference Drafting Committee. Rogers has also served on several dispute resolution committees, including the ABA Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution.

For much of her 20-year teaching career, Rogers served as vice provost at Ohio State and associate dean of academic affairs at the Moritz College of Law. She was also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Rogers has written or co-written several law school texts, two of which were awarded a Book Prize from the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Currently, Rogers serves on the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, which distributes federal funding to provide civil legal services to low income persons. She is also on the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools, and just completed a term as president of the Columbus Bar Foundation.

A graduate of the University of Kansas and Yale Law School, Rogers was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Lambros and a legal services lawyer before entering teaching.

The Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University is Ohio?s flagship law school. Approximately 650 students attend classes at the school?s John Deaver Drinko Hall, located at 55 West 12th Avenue.

The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership association in the world. With more than 400,000 members, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.

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