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Biography

Dr. Leah Wing is Director of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) and Senior Lecturer II, Legal Studies Program, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Leah is co-founder and Board President of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution where she chairs the ODR Standards Committee. She heads the Ethical Principles for Online Dispute Resolution initiative of NCTDR and serves on the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Online Dispute Resolution Standards Taskforce and the ABA Committee on Technology and Dispute Resolution. Leah has taught dispute resolution since 1993 and has served as a researcher on early experiments in online dispute resolution. Her present research projects focus on ethics and ODR, crowdsourcing and spatial justice, and technological responses to digital harm doing. Leah serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution and Conflict Resolution Quarterly, has served two terms on the Association of Conflict Resolution Board of Directors, and is on the advisory board of ODREurope. A mediation trainer and consultant, Leah has worked with hundreds of agencies and organizations both in the U.S. and internationally.