Robert Bordone

Robert C. Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation & 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 the Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Senior Executive Education seminars.

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-author of two books: Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes (Aspen, 2013) and The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The Handbook of Dispute Resolution was awarded 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. He has also published 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, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, CNN’s "The Situation Room", and BBC Radio.

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.

Research interests

Assessment, reform, design, and implementation of dispute-handling systems; role of intrapersonal conflict on dispute resolution; developing and testing methods of effective public dialogue on issues relating to identity, meaning, belonging, and belief

Selected publications

• Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes. Aspen, 2013.
• The Handbook of Dispute Resolution. Jossey-Bass, 2005.
• Articles in leading dispute resolution journals and writing and commentary have appeared in print and broadcast media outlets, including the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, CNN’s Situation Room, NPR’s Cognoscenti, and BBC Radio.