Robert C. Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program. He teaches several courses at Harvard Law School including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop. Bob also teaches in the Harvard Negotiation Institute and that Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Senior Executive Education seminars. From 2001 through 2005 he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
In 2007, Bob received the Albert Sacks-Paul Freund Teaching Award at Harvard Law School, presented annually to a member of the Harvard Law School faculty for teaching excellence, mentorship of students, and general contributions to the life of the law school. He was a finalist for the same award in 2012, one of only three faculty members in the history of Harvard Law School to be a finalist for the award two times. In 2010 the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) awarded Bob its Problem Solving in the Law School Curriculum Award for his innovative work in creating and building the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program. In 2012, Bob was selected by the graduating class as one of two Harvard Law School faculty members to deliver a “Last Lecture” to the class prior to graduation.
His research interests include the design and implementation of dispute resolution systems, the development of a problem-solving curriculum in law schools, and ADR ethics. Bob is the co-editor of The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005), recipient of the 2005 Book Award from the National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution, awarded to a book published in the United States that shows the best promise of promoting and contributing to the field of conflict resolution. Along with Nancy Rogers, Craig McEwen, and Frank Sander, Bob is currently writing Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes (Aspen, 2013). He has also authored articles in leading dispute resolution journals including the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, and Negotiation Journal. Bob’s writing and commentary have appeared in various print and broadcast media outlets including the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, CNN’s Situation Room, and BBC Radio. In addition, he has created many negotiation role-simulations and videos available through the Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse, and the Harvard Case Studies Project.
Bob serves on a variety of advisory boards. He is a Director of the Board of Certification for the International Ombudsman Association, the Associate Editor of the Negotiation Journal and a member of its Editorial Advisory Board, a member of the advisory board of the Harvard Mediation Program, a member of the Program on Negotiation Executive Committee, and faculty adviser to the Harvard Mediation Program, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Harvard Negotiators, HLS Lambda, Harvard Catholic Student Organization, and the Consortium for Global Leadership. In addition, he serves on the Board of Visitors for the William Jewett Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College.
As a professional facilitator and conflict resolution consultant, Bob works with individual and corporate clients across a spectrum of industries. He specializes in assisting individuals and groups seeking to manage conflicts in highly sensitive, emotional, or difficult situations. His corporate clients have included Primera Blue Cross, Health Net, Gap, Inc., Fidelity Investments, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Exelon, and Microsoft. In addition, he has worked on projects with nonprofit, educational, governmental, and cultural institutions such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Massachusetts General Hospital, Princeton Regional Schools, Dartmouth College, Fort Wayne, Indiana Schools, the U.S. Department of Justice, the United Way, the International Criminal Court at the Hague, DePaul University, and the Vienna School of Economics and Business Administration.
In addition, he has taught negotiation to attorneys at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the National Association of Realtors, the Bordeaux School of Business, and the international law firms of Weil, Gotshal, & Manges, LLP, Freshfields, Braukhaus, & Deringer, Lowenstein, Sandler, LLP, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Shearman & Sterling, LLP, and Clifford Chance, LLP.
Prior to coming to Harvard, Bob clerked for the Honorable George A. O’Toole, Jr. of the United States District Court for Massachusetts. He has also worked at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Crowell & Moring, the New York-based law firm of Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Boston Consulting Group.
Bob is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College where he majored in Government and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School where his coursework focused on negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution. He is a member of the bars of New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.
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