Robert C. Bordone

Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

Robert Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Negotiation 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 to be published by Jossey-Bass in 2005. 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.