Bill Felstiner

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William L. F. Felstiner (born December 14, 1929), commonly known as Bill Felstiner, is a socio-legal scholar.

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Education and career start

Bill Felstiner was born in New York, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale College. She received LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1958. In 1965, he was employed as Regional Law Adviser from USAID Mission to Greece & amp; Turkey and in time appointed as Assistant Director of US Mission AID to India (until 1968).

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Teaching and Research

In 1969, Bill Felstiner began his university teaching career as Associate Dean and Lecturer at Yale Law School. While at Yale he helped direct the Yale Program in Law and Modernization. In 1973 he joined UCLA as Assistant Professor. In 1976 he decided to devote full time to research, work, first, at the USC Social Science Research Institute, then at the Rand Corporation Civil Rights Corporation and, finally, at the American Bar Foundation, where he became executive director. While at USC he serves as co-PI of the US Department of Justice's Civil Litigation Research Project. Then he moved back to teach and to university. After teaching at Political Science at Northwestern University, he became a professor of sociology in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1992-1999). In 2000-2003 he was director of the International Institute for Sociology of Law at OÃÆ' Â ± ati (Gipuzkoa, Spain). From 1995-2005 he also held the position of Distinguished Professor of Legal Research at Cardiff University (Wales, UK).

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Custom interest fields

In his early work, Bill Felstiner focused on alternative ways to resolve conflicts (avoidance, mediation, litigation, etc.), the Western European Tour for models that may be good in criminal and civil proceedings. He continued his interest in litigation and alternatives to litigation as co-PI of the Civil Litigation Research Project (CLRP) a joint venture of USC and the University of Wisconsin funded by the US Department of Justice, conducting major litigation studies in federal courts and the operation of alternative forums for civil disputes. Felstiner participates in all aspects of CLRP work and (together with Rick Abel and Austin Sarat), develops the idea of ​​a pyramid of disputes and the formula "naming, blaming, claiming", which refers to the various stages of conflict resolution and pyramid levels. At Rand Civil Justice Institute, he started a long-term investigation into asbestos litigation. After that he concentrated his organization's energy and research on the legal profession, published a book on divorce lawyers and edited one of the legal traditions of global business transactions. From 1994-2000, he also led an influential Working Group on the Legal Profession of the Law Sociology Research Committee, which produced a number of important collections.

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Organizer Humanitarian Assistance

Nearly forty years after working with USAID, Bill Felstiner returned to his previous call. During the Katrina disaster in 2005, he volunteered and worked as director of one of the largest homeless shelters in New Orleans. In 2007 he founded, together with colleagues from Santa Barbara, the Chad Relief Foundation (CRF) and became its first director. This organization is a non-profit NGO, whose goal is to provide assistance to refugees from the Central African Republic in South Chad and to local residents who surround refugee camps.

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Personal

Felstiner and his wife, Gray, have two sons.

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Footnote

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Preferred publication

• "Helter-Shelter". In: What Lawyer Do. Narrative of the Yale Law School Class of 1958. Santa Barbara 2018, 141-163.
• Bill Felstiner (ed.) What Lawyer Do. Narration of the Yale Law School Class of 1958. Santa Barbara 2018.
• Reorganization and Resistance: Legal Profession Facing a Changing World (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005) (ed.).
• Federalismo/Federalism (Madrid: Dykinson 2004 (ed. with Manuel Calvo Garcia).
• Rules and Networks: The Cultural Law of Global Business Transactions (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001) (ed. with V.Gessner und R.P. Appelbaum).
• "Company Handling: Litigation Strategy for Defense Lawyers in Personal Injury Cases", 20 Journal of Law Study 1 (2000) (co-authored by Robert Dingwall et al.).
• "Justice and Power in the Legal Profession" at B.G. Garth & amp; A. Sarat (ed) Justice and Power in Sociolegal Studies (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998).
• "Professional Inactivity: Origins and Consequences" in K. Hawkins (ed.) The face of Human Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
• Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in Legal Processes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) (with Austin Sarat).
• "Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation as Less Than the Number of Parts" in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.), Learning from Disasters (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) (co-written with Tom Durkin).
• Asbestos Litigation in the United Kingdom: Interim Report (Oxford: Center for Socio-Legal Studies; Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1988) (co-written with R.Dingwall).
• Asbestos in Court. The Challenge of Massive Toxic Tactics, co-written with Deborah Hensler u.a. (Rand Corporation, 1985). Download available: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R3324.pdf.
• "Mediation Logic" in D. Black (ed.) Toward the General Theory of Social Control (Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco: Academic Press, 1984).
• Cost of Asbestos Litigation. Mit James S. Kakalik u.a. (Rand Institute for Civil Justice 1983). Download: http://www.litagion.com/pubs/reports/2006/R3042.pdf<
• "Economical Cost of Ordinary Litigation," 31 UCLA Law Review 72 (1983) (co-authored by David M. Trubek et al.); reprinted in R. Cover, D. Fiss & amp; 1. Resnick, Procedure (Mineola, N.Y.: The Foundation Press, 1988).
• "The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming", together with Richard Abel and Austin Sarat, 15 Law and Society Review 631 (1981) (reprinted in John J. Bonsignore et al. (eds.) Prior Law : Introduction to the Legal Process (Boston: HoughtonÃ,¬Mifflin, 4th ed., 1989).
• Community Mediation at Dorchester. Massachusetts (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1980) (gemeinsam mit Lynn A. Williams); reprinted in R. Tomasic and M. Feeley, The Justice Environment (New York: Longman, 1982) and in S. Goldberg, E. Green and F. Sander, Dispute Settlement (New York: Little Brown, 1985).
• The European Alternative to Criminal Trial and Its Application in the United States (Washington: National Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Institute, 1978) (co-authored with Ann Barthelmes Drew).
• "Plea Contracts in West Germany", 13 Law & amp; Society Review (1978), 309.
• "Mediation as an alternative to criminal prosecution Ideology and restrictions", Law and Human Behavior, Volume 2, No. 3/September 1978, 223-244.
• "The Influence of Social Organizations on the Process of Dispute," 9 Law and Society Review 63 (1974); reprinted in L. Friedman & amp; S. Macaulay, Law and the Behavioral Sciences (2d ed., New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1977); in R. Cover & amp; O. Fiss, Structure of Procedure (Mineola, N.Y.: The Foundation Press, 1979); on R. Tomasic & amp; M. Feeley, The Environment of Justice (New York: Longman, 1982); and in R. Cover, O. Fiss & amp; J. Resnick, Procedure (Mineola, N.Y.: The Foundation Press, 1988).
• "Avoidance as a Dispute Processing: Elaboration", 9 Law & amp; Community Overview (1974), 695.

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