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John T. Cross

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Louis D. Brandeis
School of Law
Univ. of Louisville

Leslie W. Abramson

Professor of Law
Louis D. Brandeis
School of Law
Univ. of Louisville

Ellen E. Deason

Professor of Law
The Ohio State University
Michael E. Moritz
College of Law

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	Ellen E. Deason Professor of Law The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1391 deason.2@osu.edu Curriculum Vitae

Education:

• B.A., cum laude, Carleton College, 1972
• M.S., Oregon State University School of Oceanography, 1975
• J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School, 1985

Bio:

Ellen E. Deason is a Professor of Law at The Ohio State University, where she specializes in the fields of Dispute Resolution and Law and Science. She is the Director of Moritz's LL.M. program, which will enroll its first students in August 2007.

Her scholarly writing is primarily on topics in dispute resolution and at the intersection of law and science. In addition, she has co-authored casebooks for Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 2005, Deason was appointed Reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws drafting committee for a Uniform Act on Misuse of Genetic Information in Employment and Insurance.

Before joining the faculty at Mortiz in 2003, Deason taught at the University of Illinois College of Law. She practiced law as an associate with Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C.

Deason served as a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. She also was a legal assistant to Arbitrator Howard M. Holtzman, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. She was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. Prior to attending law school, Deason worked as a marine biologist and she is widely published in scientific journals.

Professor Deason currently teaches Mediation, Lawyering in Dispute Resolution Processes, Comparative Dispute Resolution, and Law & Genetics.