Professor of Law and Arthur C. Clapp Public Service Scholar. (Constitutional
Litigation Clinic; Negotiation, Mediation, and Alternate Dispute
Resolution; Contracts.) Professor Hyman received his A.B. from Harvard
and his LL.B. from Yale. He specializes in litigation and alternative
dispute resolution. He was codirector of the legal clinic at
Northwestern Law School before joining the Rutgers faculty in 1975. He has devoted much of his teaching to the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, where he has
litigated civil rights and civil liberties cases, including cases that ended race and sex discrimination in police and fire departments.
An active arbitrator and mediator, Professor Hyman has also lectured and written extensively in the field of alternative dispute resolution, with a particular focus on how lawyers settle cases and on the relationship between mediation and justice. He was actively involved in the recent adoption of the Uniform Mediation Act in New Jersey, and received the James B. Boskey--ADR Practitioner of the Year Award from the Dispute Resolution Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. While on leave from the law
school, Professor Hyman was of counsel to the litigation department of a large law firm, and taught at UCLA Law School and at the University of Essex, England.
He served on the board of editors of the Clinical Law Review.