Carli N. Conklin

Carli Conklin
Kinder Institute Associate Director, Associate Professor of Law and Constitutional Democracy and Adjunct Professor of History
409E Jesse Hall
573-882-2533
Education

BS, magna cum laude, Truman State University, '97
M.A.E., Truman State University, '99
JD/MA, University of Virginia, '03
Ph.D., University of Virginia, '12

Bio

Professor Conklin’s research interests are in American legal and intellectual history. She completed her B.S. in English and M.A. in Education at Truman State University and studied law and history at the University of Virginia through a joint J.D./M.A. program in American legal history. She was awarded the School of Law’s Madeleine and John Traynor Prize for her Master’s thesis, which explored state court treatment of arbitration in early America. Professor Conklin served as Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Pre-Law Professional Program at John Brown University before returning to U.Va. to complete her Ph.D. in History. Her dissertation explored the meaning of the pursuit of happiness in historical context.

Professor Conklin’s research has been published by the American Journal of Legal History, the Ohio State University Journal on Dispute Resolution, the University of Missouri Journal of Dispute Resolution, and the Washington University Jurisprudence Review. Her recent book, The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era:  An Intellectual History, was published through the Kinder Institute’s Studies in Constitutional Democracy monograph series with the University of Missouri Press.

Professor Conklin teaches courses in lawyering and dispute resolution at the School of Law and courses on intellectual history at the Kinder Institute. She serves as the Kinder Institute Director of Undergraduate Studies, coordinating, among other things, the Society of Fellows program and the Constitutionalism and Democracy Honors College course series.

Recent Publications

ymposium Introduction: Beyond the FAA: Arbitration Procedure, Practice, and Policy in Historical Perspective, 2016 JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 1 (Spring 2016).

A Variety of State-Level Procedures, Practices, and Policies: Arbitration in Early America, 2016 JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 55 (Spring 2016).

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The Origins of the Pursuit of Happiness, 7 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JURISPRUDENCE REVIEW 195 (2015).

Lost Options for Mutual Gain? The Layperson, the Lawyer, and Dispute Resolution in Early America, 28 OHIO STATE JOURNAL ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION 581 (2013)

Transformed, Not Transcended: The Role of Extrajudicial Dispute Resolution in Antebellum Kentucky and New Jersey, 48 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 39 (2006)

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Latest News

Professor Conklin Appointed to American Bar Association Subcommittee

Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution Announces Winners of the Student Writing Competition

CSDR Marks 30th Anniversary

ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Conference Features Mizzou Law Faculty

Prof. Conklin Presents at Washington University School of Law