John P. Esser is Professor of Sociology at Wagner College. He received his B.A. from Haverford College, and his J.D., M.S., and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served as the Hewlett Fellow in Dispute Resolution. He is the co-editor of The Science of Courtroom Litigation: Jury Research and Analytical Graphics (2008, ALM/Law Journal Press), as well as author and co-author of several chapters within. As a trial consultant, he has worked on some of the most noted corporate fraud cases. As an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of New York, he has taught a CLE course on Pro Se Litigation for the American Bar Association. As an academic, he has published articles on the changing form of contract law, on dispute resolution, and on the history of American jurisprudence in journals such as Law and Social Inquiry and the Denver University Law Review, and has presented papers on these topics at academic forums such as the American Association of Law Schools, The Law & Society Association, and the Social Science History Association. Dr. Esser is also involved in curricular reform in higher education. He has made presentations on curricular reform at meetings of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Learning Communities Conference, the New American Colleges & Universities, and others.