BA, Trinity University
JD, Cornell University
Rick Bales teaches a wide variety of ADR and labor/employment courses, Torts, and Civil Procedure. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and authored or co-authored 10 books on a variety of topics related to labor/employment/ADR. He teaches regularly in China at China University of Political Science & Law (Beijing) and Peking School of Transnational Law (Shenzhen), and has been a Fulbright Specialist at Monash University (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and University of Tarumanagara (Jakarta, Indonesia).
Professor Bales also is a labor arbitrator. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the American Bar Foundation, and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and is on panels for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, American Arbitration Association, State Employment Relations Board (Ohio), Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services, Michigan Employment Relations Commission, Beijing Arbitration Commission/ Beijing International Arbitration Center, and Abu Dhabi Global Market Arbitration Centre.
Courses taught:
Torts, Civil Procedure, ADR and related courses, Labor/Employment/Discrimination and related courses.
Recent publications:
The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Labor Law: Collective Bargaining in a Free Society, Eighth Edition (West 2024).
Arbitration Law, Fifth Edition (Foundation Press 2024).
Employment Law, Fifth Edition (Aspen 2023).