Events

Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026

Time: 4:30pm to 6:00pm PST

Attendance Options: 

• Santa Clara School of Law 
• Stanford Law School
• Remotely via Zoom

This event is free to attend, Registration Required

Co-Hosted By:

Sarah Cole, Professor of Law at The Ohio State University

Sarah Rudolph Cole is the Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at Ohio State University. 

A nationally prominent expert on alternative dispute resolution, Professor Cole researches and writes about legal and policy issues that arise because of the increased use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the justice system, particularly arbitration and mediation. Her scholarship has been published in journals including the Washington University Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review, and the Georgia Law Review. She is also co-author of Mediation: Law, Policy and Practice, the leading treatise in mediation, and of Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation and Other Processes, one of the country's leading dispute resolution casebooks. She is also a co-author of Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles. 

Colin Rule, CEO at odr.com

Colin Rule is President and CEO of ODR.com/Mediate.com, acquired by the American Arbitration Association/International Centre for Dispute Resolution in May 2024. From 2003 to 2011 Colin was Director of ODR for eBay and PayPal.

Colin has worked in the dispute resolution field for 30 years as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board at the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School, and Practitioner-in-Residence at Texas A&M School of Law.

Megan Ma, Executive Director, Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab

Dr. Megan Ma is the Executive Director of the Stanford Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab (liftlab). Her research focuses on the use and integration of generative AI in legal applications and the translation of legal knowledge to code, considering their implications in contexts of human-machine collaboration. Her particular focus is on questions of legal education and the future of practice in light of new technological developments. She also teaches courses in computational law at the Law School and Department of Computer Science.