Assistant Professor of Law Associate Director, Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution
J.D. Harvard Law SchoolB.A. University of Tennessee
Lisa Dicker (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution. Her scholarship focuses on transitional justice and the design and implementation of large-scale dispute resolution systems. Professor Dicker is interested in how periods of acute upheaval—such as armed conflict, regime collapse, disasters, protest movements, and sociocultural shifts—force systems and their applicable legal frameworks to adapt or develop alternatives. Her work has been published in journals including the Fordham International Law Journal, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the University of Memphis Law Review, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, and the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, among others.
Professor Dicker joined the St. John’s faculty from Harvard Law School, where she was a Lecturer on Law and a Senior Clinical Instructor in the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program’s Dispute Systems Design Clinic. Previously, she was Counsel at a global pro bono law firm where she advised on peace negotiations, conflict prevention, transitional justice, and post-conflict democratic transitions, including in Libya, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, and Yemen. She has also served as a Senior Research Scholar for the United States Institute of Peace.
Professor Dicker holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and a B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies, summa cum laude, from the University of Tennessee.