Amy regularly teaches classes in mediation, restorative justice, negotiation, and international dispute resolution. She is a coauthor of a leading casebook, International Dispute Resolution (Carolina Academic Press, with Mary Ellen O’Connell and Anna Spain Bradley 2021). She is currently the Robert J. Reinstein Chair in law at Temple University Beasley School of Law and she was previously the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law at The Ohio State University and Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney.

Amy has taught classes on conflict resolution around the world: Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada, the University of Turin Faculty of Law in Italy, and the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in India, the Kathmandu School of Law in Nepal, and UNSW Sydney in Australia. She has also taught negotiation and mediation in Harvard Law School’s world-renown ADR program as the Sullivan and Cromwell Visiting Professor.

Amy’s academic work bridges practice and theory. She studies negotiation and conflict practices in wide-ranging contexts asking how people develop their own strategies and relationships to work out equitable resolutions to pressing social and economic problems, and how policymakers and experts can learn from these local practices and, in turn, assist and strengthen them. For example, her recent work in international development examined negotiations in global value chains as small farmers and multinational agribusiness firms struggled to produce mutually beneficial working relationships. Most recently, she is writing about how people build alternatives to the criminal legal system in schools and penal systems, putting ideas like “restorative” and “transformative” justice to new and creative uses. Her work has been supported by numerous fellowships, including the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the American Institute of Indian Studies at the University of Chicago, the Fulbright Program, and the Collegio Carlo Alberto. Amy holds a BA, summa cum laude, from Rutgers University and a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.