Deborah R. Hensler is the Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution, Stanford Law School, and Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She received her A.B. from City U. of New York and her Ph.D. from MIT. Ms. Hensler is the author of Suppose It’s Not True: Challenging Mediation Ideology, 2002 JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 81-99 (2002).