Areas of Expertise
- Alternative Dispute Resolution and Problem Solving
- Arbitration
- Consumer Law
- Contract Theory
- Contracts
- International Arbitration
- Law and Technology
- Online Dispute Resolution
- Secured Transactions
- Service Learning
- Smart Contracts and Blockchain
About Amy Schmitz
Professor Amy Schmitz joined the University of Missouri School of Law and the Center for Dispute Resolution as the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law in 2016. Previously she was a Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law for over 16 years. Before teaching, Professor Schmitz practiced law with large law firms in Seattle and Minneapolis and served as a law clerk for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Professor Schmitz teaches courses in Contracts, Lawyering, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), AI, Data Analytics and the Law, Arbitration, International Arbitration, and Consumer Law (service learning). She has been heavily involved in ODR teaching and research for a long time and is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, as well as the Co-Chair of the ABA Technology Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section and the ODR Task Force. She serves on the Association of American Law Schools Executive Committee on Commercial and Consumer Law, was an External Scientific Fellow of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, and is a researcher with the ACT Project with the Cyberjustice Laboratory in Montreal, Canada, exploring AI and ODR. Professor Schmitz is an active speaker on ODR and law and technology throughout the world and hosts a web series on arbitration, The Arbitration Conversation. She has published over 50 articles in law journals and books, and a book, The New Handshake: Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Consumer Protection, with Colin Rule.
Presentation Files
- March 2016 Consumer Empowerment presentation
- March 2015 Outreach presentation
- 2014 Consumer Empowerment Workshop presentation
- Consumer Tips booklet
Latest News Featuring Amy Schmitz
- Professor Schmitz to present on Decentralized Justice at Blockchain Law and Policy Summit
- Professor Schmitz presentation: OArb and COVID-19
- Professor Schmitz publishes in Mediation Theory and Practice journal
- Professor Schmitz Contributes to New Book on Arbitration
- Professor Schmitz: Scholarship Addresses the Legal Challenges of COVID-19
Latest Publications from Amy Schmitz
- Arbitration in the Age of Covid: Examining Arbitration’s Move Online
- Reviving the “New Handshake” in the Wake of a Pandemic
- Promover La Protección Del Consumidor a Través De La Resolución De Disputas En Línea (Promoting Consumer Protection through Online Dispute Resolution)
- Enforcing Consumer and Capital Markets Law in the United States
- Addressing the Class Claim Conundrum with Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)