Richard Bales

Richard Bales - Chase College of Law

Director - Center for Excellence in Advocacy

Professor of Law

"One of Chase's strengths is its students. For example, in the past five years, thirty Chase students have published articles in outside law journals, a success unmatched by any other law school in the country. Chase students are bright and hardworking—and that combination makes Chase an intellectually exciting place to be."

  • Education

  • BA Political Science, Trinity University
  • JD, Cornell Law School

  • Courses Taught

  • ADR in the Workplace
  • Civil Procedure I
  • Civil Procedure II
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Employment Law
  • Law Review

Profile

Professor Rick Bales teaches Civil Procedure, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and ADR in the Workplace. He has authored twenty scholarly articles, co-authored another thirty with Chase students, and helped sixteen Chase students publish scholarly articles on their own. Professor Bales has published five books: COMPULSORY ARBITRATION (Cornell University Press 1997), ADR IN THE WORKPLACE (with Laura Cooper and Dennis Nolan) (West 2000 and 2005), UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYMENT LAW (with Paul Secunda and Jeff Hirsch), (LexisNexis 2007), LABOR LAW: COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN A FREE SOCIETY (with Dennis Nolan) (West 2009), and Arbitration Law (with Katherine Stone) (West forthcoming 2009). His scholarly interest focuses on the intersection of employment law and alternative dispute resolution.

Before coming to Chase, Professor Bales taught for a semester at the University of Montana Law School, for a year and a half at Southern Methodist University Law School in Dallas, and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Houston Law School. Prior to that, he litigated employment cases for the Houston-based law firm of Baker & Botts and the Cleveland-based law firm of Baker & Hostetler. He received his law degree from Cornell Law School in 1993.

Professor Bales has a sixteen-year-old son, Dennis, and a twelve-year-old daughter, Emma. He is actively involved in pro bono work with Northern Kentucky Volunteer Lawyers, and is a Board Member of the NKU Alternative Dispute Resolution Center.

Law Review E-submissions
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Law Review Symposia
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NKU Alternative Dispute Resolution Center

Latest Publications

Federal Question Jurisdiction and the Federal Arbitration Act, 80 Colorado L. Rev 89 (2009) (co-authored with Jamie Ireland)

With Katherine Stone (UCLA), Arbitration Law, Foundation (2009) forthcoming summer 2009

With Dennis R. Nolan (South Carolina), Labor Law: Collective Bargaining in a Free Society, West (2009) with Teacher's Manual

Plus at Pretext: Resolving the Split Regarding the Sufficiency of Temporal Proximity Evidence in Title VII Retaliation Cases, 44 GONZAGA L. REV. (2009) (co-authored with Troy Daniels)

How Congress Can Make a More Equitable Federal Arbitration Act, 113 PENN. ST. L. REV. 1081 (Forthcoming 2009) (co-authored with Sue Irion)

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Latest Presentations

Explaining the Spread of At-Will Employment as an Inter-Jurisdictional Race-to-the-Bottom in Employment Standards University of Cincinnati College of Law Summer Scholarship Series (2007)

Beyond the Protocol: Recent Trends in Employment Arbitration National Academy of Arbitrators conference in Chicago, Illinois (2007)

Extending OWBPA Notice and Consent Protections to Arbitration Agreements Involving Employees and Consumers University of Nevada-Las Vegas Boyd School of Law, Symposium on Revising the Federal Arbitration Act (2007)

Lawyers Have a Professional Duty to Inform Clients About ADR? Kentucky Bar Association Annual Meeting, ADR Section, Louisville, Kentucky (2007)

Empirical Research in Employment Arbitration Labor Law Group Conference (2006)

Public Service

Scholar-in-Residence, ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law, ADR in Labor & Employment Law Committee (2009).

Editor, Workplace Prof Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/.

Secretary, Kentucky Bar Association Sections on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Employment and Labor Law.

Volunteer Lawyer, Northern Kentucky Volunteer Lawyers Association.