Rick Bales, J.D.

Visiting Professor
School of Law

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Courses Taught

Employment Law, Seminar: Arbitration: From Theory to Practice

Practice Areas

Rick Bales joins SLU LAW as a visiting professor from Ohio Northern University School of Law. He teaches a wide variety of ADR and labor/employment courses, Torts, and Civil Procedure. 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.

Research Interests

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).