Harvard Negotiation Institute Teaching Faculty

• Robert C. Bordone, A.B., J.D., Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program.  Robert Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program and the lead instructor for Harvard Law School’s Spring Negotiation Workshop. He also teaches several other research courses on dispute resolution, leadership, and dispute systems design.With Michael Moffitt, Mr. Bordone is the co-editor of The Handbook of Dispute Resolution. Mr. Bordone has authored a number of articles including Negotiation Teaching in Law Schools, a working paper published in Negotiation Pedagogy: A Research Survey of Four Disciplines, 11 (2000); Teaching Interpersonal Skills for Negotiation and for Life in the Negotiation Journal (October 2000) and Electronic Online Dispute Resolution: A Systems Approach—Potential, Problems, and a Proposal, 3 Harv. Neg. L. Rev. 175 (1998). He has written numerous case simulations used in negotiation courses in American law schools. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Bordone clerked for the Honorable George A. O’Toole, Jr. and worked for Crowell & Moring, LLP in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Justice, the Boston Consulting Group, and CBS News before returning to Harvard.

• Sheila K. Heen, A.B., J.D., Affiliate, Harvard Negotiation Project
• David Lax, A.B., Ph.D., Affiliate, Program on Negotiation.  David Lax is Managing Principal of Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation strategy and capability-building firm which advises large corporations and governments around the world in complex negotiations including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, the entry into and exit from joint ventures and alliances, the settlement of shareholder class action lawsuits, and large commercial contracts. Dr. Lax was a professor at Harvard Business School, where he co-founded the Negotiation Roundtable and later served as its director.
  He is co-author of the recent 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most
  Important Deals as well as The Manager as Negotiator (both with James Sebenius) and numerous
  scholarly articles. A more extensive biography can be found here.

• Michael Moffitt, A.B., J.D., Associate Professor of Law.  Michael Moffitt is the Associate Director of the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law where he teaches negotiation, mediation, dispute resolution and civil procedure. Professor Moffitt has taught negotiation at Harvard Law School and at the Ohio State University College of Law, and has spent several years as a consultant on negotiation and dispute resolution projects around the world. His clients ranged from senior judges to tribal leaders, from unionized prison guards to accountants, from political leaders to diplomatic academy trainees. He has been involved in the Harvard Negotiation Institute negotiation offerings in various capacities since 1992.

• Bruce M. Patton, A.B., J.D., Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project.   Bruce Patton is a Distinguished Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project, which he helped to found in 1979, and a Director of Vantage Partners, LLC, an international consulting firm specializing in negotiation and relationship management for Fortune 500 clients. First appointed Lecturer on Law in 1985, Patton has regularly taught the Law School’s pioneering Negotiation and Advanced Negotiation Workshop and Advanced Negotiation Seminar, as well as the Negotiation Workshop for HNI and the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives. Mr. Patton has worked as a consultant and mediator for corporations, labor unions, and governments, including involvement in the resolution of the 1981 Iranian hostage conflict and the constitutional negotiations that led an end of apartheid in South Africa. His current focus is on building organizational capacity for effective negotiation, relationship, and conflict management, working in the context of alliances and other strategic negotiations and relationships. Mr. Patton is co-author (with Roger Fisher and William Ury) of Getting To YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, and (with Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen) of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most.
• Frank E. A. Sander, A.B., LL.B., Bussey Professor of Law, Emeritus. Frank E. A. Sander came to the faculty in 1959 after clerking with Justice Frankfurter and several years of practice, including two years with the Tax Division, Department of Justice. He has taught an overview course in Alternative Dispute Resolution as well as courses on Negotiation and Mediation. He was invited by Chief Justice Burger to deliver a paper on alternative dispute resolution at the Pound Conference in 1976, and he is co-director of the Harvard Law School Program on Dispute Resolution. He has done extensive writing and lecturing in the dispute resolution field and served for fourteen years on the ABA Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution, including three years as chairman. Collaborating with Professor Sander in the presentation of this workshop will be two experienced lawyer-mediators, Michael K. Lewis and Linda R. Singer, of Washington, D.C. Both are active practitioners as well as teachers of negotiation, currently at the Georgetown Law School.
• Douglas Stone, A.B., J.D., Affiliate, Harvard Negotiation Project.
• Guhan Subramanian, A.B., J.D., M.B.A., Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business, Harvard Law School and Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law, Harvard Business School.  Guhan Subramanian teaches courses on Negotiation and Corporate Law at the Harvard Law School. Before joining the HLS faculty, he spent three years on the faculty at the Harvard Business School, where he was the co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiations and taught a second-year elective on business law. His research interests are in the areas of corporate dealmaking, corporate governance, and corporate law. He has published articles on these topics in The Stanford Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, The Journal of Corporation Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among other places. He holds undergraduate, law, and business degrees from Harvard University.