Dispute Resolution Experience

R. Lisle Baker is a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, where he teaches courses in property, mediation, and planning for law as a career and an enterprise. He has written on such topics as settling land use appeals within the framework of open meeting laws, using insights about perception and judgment from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument as an aid to mediation, exploring responses to beneficial but conflicting neighboring uses of land, and ethical limits on attorney contact with local zoning officials. Before joining the Suffolk Law faculty, he practiced with the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow, and argued public policy as a regular participant in the first season of the public television series, The Advocates.

• Lisle has served for over twenty-five years as an elected ward alderman in Newton, Massachusetts, including six years as President of the Newton Board of Aldermen. On the Board of Aldermen, he has served on the Zoning and Planning, Public Safety, and Finance Committees.
  
  
• He also serves on the Regional Policy and Administration Committee of the Massachusetts Municipal Association. He has won awards from a local conservation organization for his role in preserving open space, and most recently hosted an award-winning series of televised interviews with local officials and citizens available at www.aldermenatwork.org.
  
  
• In addition to his work in local government, Lisle has served as a member of the panel of mediators serving in the Superior Court under the auspices of the state Office of Dispute Resolution, as a special master for a series of eminent domain cases, and more recently as a volunteer mediator in a program sponsored the Boston Bar Association.
  

• Lisle is an honors graduate of Williams College and Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.