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(Constitutional
Litigation Clinic; Negotiation, Mediation, and Alternate Dispute Resolution; Contracts.)
Professor
Hyman received his A.B. from Harvard and his LL.B. from Yale. He specializes in
litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He was co-director
of the legal clinic at Northwestern Law School before joining the Rutgers faculty in 1975. He has
devoted much of his teaching to the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, where he
has litigated
civil rights and civil liberties cases, including cases that ended race and sex
discrimination
in police and fire departments.
An
active arbitrator and mediator, Professor Hyman has also written extensively in
the field of alternative dispute resolution, with a particular focus on how
lawyers settle cases, on the role of lawyers in mediation, and on the
relationship between mediation and justice. He serves on several statewide
organizations devoted to mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He has lectured on alternate
dispute resolution to judges and lawyers and has designed and conducted
mediation training programs. While on leave from the law school, Professor Hyman
was of
counsel to the litigation department of a large law firm, and taught at UCLA Law School and at the
University of Essex, England. He served on the board of
editors of the Clinical Law Review.
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