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Professor Reynolds teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws, negotiation, and mediation. Her research interests include negotiation, dispute systems design, and cultural influences and implications of alternative processes. She holds the Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis endowed professorship at the law school. View published and in-progress works by Professor Reynolds here.

Professor Reynolds has received the University of Oregon's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the law school's Orlando J. Hollis Teaching Award. She is the Faculty Director of the nationally ranked Oregon ADR Center, which in June 2016 received the Ninth Circuit Award for Excellence in ADR Education. She has served as the national chair of the ADR Section of the Association of American Law Schools and is an active blogger for the ADR professor blog, indisputably. In 2016, Reynolds served as the interim ombudsperson at the University of Oregon.

Professor Reynolds received her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, her master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and her bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago. While at Harvard, Professor Reynolds was an editor of the Harvard Law Review; a research assistant for Professor Arthur Miller on Federal Practice and Procedure; and a teaching assistant, researcher, and Harvard Negotiation Research Project Fellow for the Program on Negotiation.

Before law school, Professor Reynolds worked for seven years as a systems analyst and associate director for information technology at UT Austin. After law school, Reynolds was an associate at the Atlanta office of Dow Lohnes PLLC, working primarily on First Amendment and employment cases. She joined the faculty at the University of Missouri School of Law as a Visiting Associate Professor in 2008 before joining the Oregon faculty the following year. Professor Reynolds has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

** Professor Reynolds is currently serving as the law school's Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. In this role, she oversees the Academic Affairs team and the Office of the Registrar, which together support the curriculum, curricular policies and processes, academic policies and processes, and pro tem teaching of the JD, LLM, ULS, and CRES programs. She works closely with Student Affairs and other associate deans at the law school and the UO. In her role, she serves on the Dean's Leadership Team, the Dean's Faculty Advisory Committee, and the Dean's Student Advisory Committee.