Amy Applegate: Maurer School of Law: Indiana University Bloomington

Amy Applegate

Clinical Professor of Law, Ralph F. Fuchs Faculty Fellow, and Director, Civil Protection Order Clinic

Email:: aga@iu.edu
Phone:: (812) 855-8684
Location:: Lewis Building 303

Education

Cornell University B.A. 1978
Harvard University J.D. 1981

Courses

Civil Protection Order Clinic (B686)
Domestic Relations Mediation (B563)
Family and Children Mediation Clinic (B691)

Background

Recipient, Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award, 2012, 2016, and 2023
Recipient, Indiana University Outstanding Faculty Collaborative Research Award (co-recipient), 2017
Recipient, Stanley Cohen Distinguished Research Award (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts), 2022
Recipient, Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Faculty Award, 2003, 2005, and 2020
Recipient, Indiana State Bar Association’s Women in the Law Recognition Award, 2008
Recipient, Randall T. Shepard Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Publico Service, 2005
Chair, Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education, 2010
Chair, Clinical Committee, Association of American Law Schools (AALS), 2012–2014
Co-Chair, Planning Committee for the 2011 AALS Clinical Conference (June 2011)
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the Kinsey Institute, April 2015–December 2016
Received her bachelor's degree (with distinction in all subjects) in 1978 from Cornell University; earned her J.D. cum laude in 1981 from Harvard Law School
Member of Phi Beta Kappa
Associate, Peabody Rivlin Lambert & Meyers, Washington, D.C., 1981-82
Staff Attorney, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., 1982-84
Associate, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D.C., 1984-87
Partner, Brown Cummins & Brown, Cincinnati, 1989-2001

Biography

Professor Applegate is admitted to practice law in Indiana and the District of Columbia. She is a registered domestic relations mediator in Indiana. Her pro bono work has included mediations, guardian ad litem (GAL) appointments, representation of court-appointed special advocates, and protective order cases.

Applegate currently teaches Indiana Law's Civil Protection Order Clinic and Domestic Relations Mediation Course. Applegate and her students also collaborate in research and training with faculty and graduate students from IU's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and others to improve existing ADR processes, and develop additional interventions for high-conflict families. Applegate and colleagues have conducted research on family law issues, focusing on families experiencing parental divorce or separation. She and her colleagues have developed and tested the best methods of screening for a history of IPV in cases seeking family mediation, so that mediators are aware of IPV and consider the possible impact of IPV on the mediation process. They also conduct randomized controlled trials testing the effectiveness of family law interventions, including different mediation approaches (for both families with and without histories of IPV) and online parent education programs. Applegate has co-authored many publications in her research areas. Additionally, she has presented individually, as well as with her collaborators, in presentations at state, national, and international conferences about her research and practice areas.

Prior to directing the Civil Protection Order Clinic, she taught the Viola J. Taliaferro Family and Children Mediation Clinic, where she trained and supervised students providing pro bono mediation services to indigent and low-income litigants in disputed custody, parenting-time, and other family law cases, and previously, the Child Advocacy Clinic, where she trained and supervised law students in GAL cases.

Applegate is the editor of the SSRN Law and Society Family Law, Relations and Dispute Resolution Journal, and on the editorial board of the Family Court Review.

Selected works

Huber Gifford, H., Jiang, L.J., Beck, C.J., Applegate, A.G., Adams, J.M., Rossi, F.S., Tomlinson, C.S., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2023). Intimate partner violence predicting outcomes in specialized mediation and traditional litigation. Journal of Family Violence.
Rossi, F. S., Applegate, A. G., Tomlinson, C., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2023). Intimate partner violence screening for separating or divorcing parents: An introduction to the Mediator’s Assessment of Safety Issues and Concerns-Short (MASIC-S). Family Court Review.
Jiang, L.J., Applegate, A.G., Tomlinson, C.S., Rossi, F.S., Beck, C.J., Adams, J.M., Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2023). Parents reporting partner violence: Reaching or not reaching agreement in mediation or litigating without mediation. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 1-18.
Tomlinson, C. S., Rudd, B. N., Applegate, A. G., Diaz, A., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2022-2023). Evaluation of Court-Initiated Randomized Controlled Trial of Online Parent Programs for Divorcing and Separating Parents. Journal of Family Psychology, 37(1), 65-78.
Tomlinson, C.S., Rudd, B.N., Applegate, A.G, Diaz, A., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2022). Lessons for a COVID-19 era: Barriers and facilitators to court ordered online parenting programs for divorcing and separating parents. Family Court Review, 60(2), 303-321.
Jiang, L.J., Rossi, F.S., Beck, C.J., Applegate, A.G., Adams, J.M., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2022). Predictors of attendance at court-referred shuttle or video-conferencing mediation among separating or divorcing parents reporting high levels of intimate partner violence. Family Court Review, 60(1), 98-114.
Rossi, F. S., Applegate, A.G., & Beck, C. J., Timko, C., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2022). Screening for intimate partner violence in family mediation: An examination of multiple methodological approaches using item response theory. Assessment, 29(8).
Applegate, A.G., Crampton, A., Glesner Fines, B. (2022). Introduction to FCR special issue on Covid pandemic. Family Court Review, 60(2): 163-164.
Applegate, A.G., Beck, C.J., Adams, J.M., Rossi, F.S., &Holtzworth-Munroe, (2021). Preparing mediators to mediate high IPV cases in a randomized control trial: The importance of a mediation manual, training, and consultation. Family Court Review, 59(4), 725-740.
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., Beck, C.J., Rossi, F.S., Adams, J.M., Jiang, L.J., Tomlinson, C.S., & Hale, D.F. (2021). Intimate Partner Violence and Family Dispute Resolution: Follow-up Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Shuttle Mediation, Videoconferencing Mediation, and Litigation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 27(4), 581–96.
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Beck, C. J., Applegate, A. G., Adams, J. M., Rossi, F. S., Jiang, L. J., Tomlinson, C. S., & Hale, D. F. (2021). Intimate partner violence (IPV) and family dispute resolution: A randomized controlled trial comparing shuttle mediation, video-conferencing mediation, and litigation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27(1), 45–64.
Tomlinson, C.S., Rudd, B.N., Applegate, A.G, & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2021). The Challenges of and Opportunities for Engaging Unmarried Parents in Court-Ordered, Online Parenting Programs. In Fagan, J. & Pearson, J. (Eds.), New Research on Programs for Low-income Fathers.
Applegate, A.G., Rossi, F.S., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Beck, C.J., & Jiang, L.J. (2020). In a Time of Great Need, a New, Shorter Tool Helps Screen for Intimate Partner Violence. American Bar Association (ABA) Dispute Resolution Magazine.
Kroeper, K.M., Quintanilla, V.D., Frisby, M.,Yel, N., Applegate, A.G., Sherman, S.J., Murphy, M.C. (2020). Underestimating the unrepresented: Cognitive biases disadvantage pro se litigants in family law cases. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol 26(2), 198-212.
Rossi, F. S., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A. G., & Beck, C. J. (2020). Subtypes of violent separating or divorcing couples seeking family mediation and their association with personality and criminality characteristics. Psychology of Violence, 10(4),390-399.
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Beck, C J., Applegate, A. G., Adams, J. M., Rossi, F. S., Jiang, L. J., Tomlinson, C. S., & Hale, D. F. (released for dissemination February 2020). Intimate partner violence and custody decisions: A randomized controlled trial of outcomes from family court, shuttle mediation, and videoconferencing mediation. Research Monograph. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Dowling, K., Applegate, A.G., Tomlinson, C.S.,Rudd, B.R. (2019). A Qualitative Interview Study Regarding Barriers and Facilitators of Engagement in Two Online Education Programs for Separating or Divorcing Parents. Research Monograph. Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).
Adams, J., Applegate, A.G., Beck, C. J. Holtzworth-Munroe, A, and Rossi, F. (April 2019). New Services for Families in the DC Superior Court. ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine.
Applegate, A.G. (2018). Book Review: How Mediation Works Theory, Research and Practice by Stephen B. Goldberg, Jeanna M. Brett, Breatrice Blohorn-Brenneur, with Nancy H. Rogers. Family Court Review, 56(3), 506-12.
Rossi, F. S., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A. G., Beck, C. J., Adams, J. M., & Hale, D. F. (2017). Shuttle and online mediation: A review of available research and implications for separating couples reporting intimate partner violence or abuse. Family Court Review, 55(3), pp 390-403.
Rudd, B.N., Poladian, A.R., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G, & D’Onofrio, B.M. (2017). Randomized Control Trial Follow Up: Online Parent Program and Waiting Period for Unmarried Parents in Title IV-D Court. Journal of Family Psychology, 31(3), pp. 381-386. doi: 10.1037/fam0000255.
Poladian, A.R., Rudd, B.N., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., & D’Onofrio, B.M. (2017). Predictors of initial agreement and one-year re-litigation in Title IV-D contested paternity cases. Family Court Review, 55 (2), pp. 243-259. doi: 10.1111/fcre.12275.
Rudd, B.N., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Reyome, J.G., Applegate, A.G., & D’Onofrio, B.M. (2015). Randomized Control Trial: Online Parent Program and Waiting Period for Unmarried Parents in Title IV-D Court. The Journal of Family Psychology, 29(5), pp. 679-686. doi: 10.1037/fam0000106.
Rudd, B.N., Ogle, R.K., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., & D’Onofrio, B.M. (2015). Child-informed mediation study follow up: Comparing the frequency of re-litigation following different types of mediation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 21(4), pp. 452-457. doi: 10.1037/law0000046 v.
Rossi, F.S., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., Beck, C.J.A., Adams, J.M., & Hale, D.F. (2015). Detection of intimate partner violence and recommendation for joint family mediation: A randomized controlled trial of two screening measures. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 21:3, 239-251.
Rudd, B.N., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., D’Onofrio, B., Ballard, R.H., & Bates, J.E. Associations between parent and child reports of interparental conflict/violence and child difficulties in a family mediation setting. Family Court Review 53(4), pp. 602-616 (October 2015). doi: 10.1111/fcre.12176.
Rossi, F.S., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., & Applegate, A.G. Does level of intimate partner violence and abuse predict content of family mediation agreements? Family Court Review, 53, No. 1, 134-161 (January 2015).
Pokman, V., Rossi, F.S., Holtzworth-Munroe, A.G., Beck, C.J.A., Applegate, A.G., & D’Onofrio, B.M. Mediator’s assessment of safety issues and concerns (MASIC): Reliability and validity of a new intimate partner violence screen. Assessment, 21 (5), 529-542 (March 2014).
Ballard, R.H., Rudd, B.N., Applegate, A.G., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. Hearing the voice of the child in divorce. In M.K. Miller, J., Chamberlain, & T. Wingrove (Eds.), Psychology, law, and the wellbeing of children. Oxford University Press: New York, NY (2014).
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., Rudd, B.N., Freeman, A., & D'Onofrio, B. Interdisciplinary psychology and law training in family and child mediation: An empirical study of the effects on law student mediators. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13, No. 3, 82-98 (August 2013).
Ballard, R.H., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., D’Onofrio, B.M., & Bates, J.E. A randomized controlled trial of child informed mediation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 19, No. 3, 271-281 (August 2013).
Applegate, A.G. and Beck, C.J.A. Self-Represented Parties in Mediation; Fifty Years Later It Remains the Elephant in the Room, Family Court Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, 87-103 (January 2013).
Applegate, A.G., Schwartz, K. & Amy Holtzworth-Munroe, A. Fathers and Dispute Resolution, chapter 22 in Natasha J. Cabrera and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Second Edition, 397-415. New York: Routledge (November 5, 2012).
Putz, J.W., Ballard, R.H., Arany, J.G., Applegate, A.G., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. Comparing the Mediation Agreements of Families with and without a History of Family Violence. Family Court Review, Vol. 50, No. 3, 413-428 (July 2012).
Ballard, R.H., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., & Beck, C.J.A. Detecting Intimate Partner Violence in Family and Divorce Mediation: A Randomized Trial of Intimate Partner Violence Screening. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 17, No. 2, 241-263 (May 2011).
Ballard, R.H., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., & D'Onofrio, B.M. Factors Affecting the Outcome of Divorce and Paternity Mediations. Family Court Review, 49, No. 1, 16-33 (January 2011).
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Beck, C.J.A., & Applegate, A.G. The Mediator’s Assessment of Safety Issues and Concerns (MASIC): A Screening Interview for Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Available in the Public Domain. Family Court Review, Vol. 48, No. 4, 646-662 (October 2010).
Beck, C.J.A., Walsh, M.E., Ballard, R.H., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A., & Putz, J.W. Divorce Mediation with and without Legal Representation: A Focus on Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse. Family Court Review, 48, No. 4, 631-645 (October 2010).
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., D’Onofrio, B.M., & Bates, J.E. Child Informed Mediation Study (CIMS): Incorporating the Children’s Perspective into Divorce Mediation in an American Pilot Study. Journal of Family Studies (Australian journal) (July/August 2010 issue) (peer reviewed research paper).
Applegate, A., D’Onofrio, B.M., & Amy Holtzworth-Munroe. A. Training and Transforming Students through Interdisciplinary Education: The Intersection of Law and Psychology. Family Court Review, 47, No. 3, 468-484 (July 2009).
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Applegate, A.G., & and D’Onofrio, B.M. Family Dispute Resolution: Charting a Course for the Future. Family Court Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, 493-505 (July 2009).

Areas of expertise

Alternative dispute resolution
Domestic violence