Homer C. La Rue

Courses Currently Teaching or Have Taught

Civil Procedure

• 1994-Present

Federal Courts

• 2005-2015, 2024

The Law of Modern Arbitration

• 2014-Present (Fall semester)

Arbitration: The 21st Century Litigation

• 2015-Present (Spring semester)

ADR Clinic

• Started and directed the Clinic in 2005 to 2015

Elder Law Clinic

• 1994-2005

Conflict of Laws

• 2008-2011

Leadership Positions and Programs Created at the Law School

Founder and Director of the Clinical Law Center

• 1994-2005

Founder and Director of the University-Approved ADR Certificate Program

• 2015-Present

Founder and Director of the Howard Law ADR Program

• 2015-Present

Founder and Director of the Howard Law/World Bank Group Externship Program

• 2015-Present

Law School Committee Positions Held

• Chair, Student Affairs Committe
• Apt Committee
• Academic Affairs Committe
• Bylaws Committee

Recent Publications

• Homer C. La Rue and Alan A. Symonette, The Ray Corollary Initiative: How to Achieve Diversity and Inclusion in Arbitrator Selection, 63-2 HOWARD LJ 216 (Apr. 10, 2020).
• Homer C. La Rue, The Road to Becoming a Neutral:
  Working in the Interest of Human Needs, Chap. 20, p. 397; ed. Howard Gadlin and Nancy A. Welsh, EVOLUTION of a FIELD: PERSONAL HISTORIES in CONFLICT RESOLUTION, DRI Press, Mitchell Hamline School of Law (Dec. 1, 2020).
• Homer C. La Rue, A Calland a Blueprint for Change, 27-1 ABA DISPUTE RESOLUTION MAG. 6 (Jan. 2021).

Work Related to My Scholarship

• In 2021, I established the Ray Corollary Initiative, Inc. (RCI, Inc.), a not-for-profit corporation to advance diversity in the selection of arbitrators, mediators and other ADR neutrals. I am chair of the Board of Directors of the RCI, Inc.
• In 2025, the RCI, Inc. received an historic special initiatives three-year grant in the amount of $750,000. This is the first time that the American Arbitraiton Association-Internaitonal Centre for Dispute Resolution Foundation and the JAMS Foundation collaborated to jointly fund a special initiatives grant.

Leadership Positions in ADR and Awards

• Highly sought labor and employment law arbitrator and mediator. For more than 40 years, he has served as an arbitrator and a mediator in numerous complex national and global matters, including labor, employment, commercial, and Olympic and Para-Olympic disputes.
• Past President of the National Academy of Arbitrators.
• Recipient of the 2020 D’Almeberte-Raven Award, the highest honor given by the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, to an individual for outstanding service to the ADR field.
• Fellow in the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals.
• Distinguished Fellow in the International Academy of Mediators (IAM).
• 2017-18 Neutral-In-Residence at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University.
• Peggy Browning Fund's 2015 DC Awards Reception recognized Professor La Rue for his fair and impartial work as a labor-management neutral.