Teaching Faculty

Robert C. Bordone, A.B., J.D., Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law
Roger Dummer Fisher, A.B., LL.B., Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Emeritus
Sheila Kaye Heen, A.B., J.D., Lecturer on Law
Robert H. Mnookin, A.B., LL.B., Samuel Williston Professor of Law
Michael Moffitt, A.B., J.D., Assistant Professor of Law
Bruce Michael Patton, A.B., J.D., Deputy Director, Harvard Negotiation Project
Frank E. A. Sander, A.B., LL.B., Bussey Professor of Law
Douglas Stone, B.A., J.D., Lecturer on Law
Guhan Subramanian, A.B., J.D., M.B.A., Joseph Flom Assistant Professor of Law and Business

Robert C. Bordone

Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law; Deputy Director, Harvard Program on Negotiation Research Project

Robert Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law and the Deputy Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. He is the lead instructor for Harvard Law SchoolÂ's Spring Negotiation Workshop and 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 ApproachÃ³Â-Potential, Problems, and a Proposal," 3 Harvard Negotiation Law Review175 (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. OÂ'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.

Roger Fisher

Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Emeritus

After ten years of experience in private practice and government service, Roger Fisher joined the faculty in 1958. He has taught Civil Procedure, the Legal Profession, and a variety of courses on international law but now teaches exclusively in the field of negotiation. In 1992 he reduced his regular teaching load and is currently devoting half time or more to international problems. His books include: Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge (co-authored by Alan Sharp with John Richardson); Getting To YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, second edition (with William Ury and Bruce Patton); Getting Together: Building Relationships as We Negotiate (with Scott Brown); Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict (with Elizabeth Kopelman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider); and Getting Ready to Negotiate: The Getting To YES Workbook (with Danny Ertel).

Sheila K. Heen

Lecturer on Law

Sheila Heen is a lecturer at the Law School and a partner at Triad Consulting, a Cambridge-based group dedicated to helping individuals and organizations with their toughest conversations. In addition to teaching negotiation to law students, lawyers, and executives, she provides coaching and intervention work for corporate teams in crisis, executives facing difficult choices, and negotiators stuck in distrustful stalemate. In the public sector, Ms. Heen has worked with Greek and Turkish Cypriots on the conflict that divides Cyprus, mediated racial tensions involving police officers and minority communities, and provided training for the Singapore Supreme Court. Ms. Heen is currently working with The Citadel, a formerly all-male military college, to help them integrate female cadets and improve their relationship with the U.S. Department of Justice. She is co-author, along with Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton, of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Viking/Penguin). Ms. Heen received her B.A. from Occidental College, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Robert H. Mnookin

Samuel Williston Professor of Law and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Harvard Program on Negotiation

Robert Mnookin is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles, including Barriers to Conflict Resolution (1995) and Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes (2000), each of which won the CPR Prize as the best book relating to dispute resolution in the year of its initial publication. In addition to his law school teaching, Professor Mnookin has taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms throughout the world and trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills. He has served as a consultant to various governments and agencies and as a neutral has resolved a number of complex commercial disputes.

Michael Moffitt

Assistant Professor of Law

Michael Moffitt is the associate director of the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program and assistant 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 Program of Instruction of Lawyers negotiation offerings in various capacities since 1992.

Bruce M. Patton

Deputy Director, Harvard Negotiation Project

Bruce Patton is deputy director 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 PIL 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

Bussey Professor of Law

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

Lecturer on Law

Douglas Stone is a partner at Triad Consulting Group in Cambridge. He is an affiliate of the Harvard Negotiation Project, where for ten years he was Associate Director. Along with Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, he developed PIL's Advanced Negotiation Workshop and has taught it since 1991. As Lecturer on Law, he taught Harvard Law School's Negotiation Workshop to law and other graduate students. Mr. Stone has been engaged in mediation work in South Africa, Cyprus, and the U.S., and has taught negotiation and mediation to lawyers, executives, teachers, psychologists, journalists and diplomats around the world. He is co-author, along with Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Viking/Penguin). His articles on negotiation have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. He is a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School and has worked as an attorney in Boston and New York.

Guhan Subramanian

Joseph Flom Assistant Professor of Law and Business; Member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Program on Negotiation

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 deal-making, 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.



	Teaching Faculty Robert C. Bordone, A.B., J.D., Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law Roger Dummer Fisher, A.B., LL.B., Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Emeritus Sheila Kaye Heen, A.B., J.D., Lecturer on Law Robert H. Mnookin, A.B., LL.B., Samuel Williston Professor of Law Michael Moffitt, A.B., J.D., Assistant Professor of Law Bruce Michael Patton, A.B., J.D., Deputy Director, Harvard Negotiation Project Frank E. A. Sander, A.B., LL.B., Bussey Professor of Law Douglas Stone, B.A., J.D., Lecturer on Law Guhan Subramanian, A.B., J.D., M.B.A., Joseph Flom Assistant Professor of Law and Business Robert C. Bordone Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law; Deputy Director, Harvard Program on Negotiation Research Project Robert Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law and the Deputy Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. He is the lead instructor for Harvard Law SchoolÂ's Spring Negotiation Workshop and 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 ApproachÃ³Â-Potential, Problems, and a Proposal," 3 Harvard Negotiation Law Review175 (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. OÂ'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. Roger Fisher Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Emeritus After ten years of experience in private practice and government service, Roger Fisher joined the faculty in 1958. He has taught Civil Procedure, the Legal Profession, and a variety of courses on international law but now teaches exclusively in the field of negotiation. In 1992 he reduced his regular teaching load and is currently devoting half time or more to international problems. His books include: Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge (co-authored by Alan Sharp with John Richardson); Getting To YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, second edition (with William Ury and Bruce Patton); Getting Together: Building Relationships as We Negotiate (with Scott Brown); Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict (with Elizabeth Kopelman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider); and Getting Ready to Negotiate: The Getting To YES Workbook (with Danny Ertel). Sheila K. Heen Lecturer on Law Sheila Heen is a lecturer at the Law School and a partner at Triad Consulting, a Cambridge-based group dedicated to helping individuals and organizations with their toughest conversations. In addition to teaching negotiation to law students, lawyers, and executives, she provides coaching and intervention work for corporate teams in crisis, executives facing difficult choices, and negotiators stuck in distrustful stalemate. In the public sector, Ms. Heen has worked with Greek and Turkish Cypriots on the conflict that divides Cyprus, mediated racial tensions involving police officers and minority communities, and provided training for the Singapore Supreme Court. Ms. Heen is currently working with The Citadel, a formerly all-male military college, to help them integrate female cadets and improve their relationship with the U.S. Department of Justice. She is co-author, along with Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton, of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Viking/Penguin). Ms. Heen received her B.A. from Occidental College, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Robert H. Mnookin Samuel Williston Professor of Law and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Harvard Program on Negotiation Robert Mnookin is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles, including Barriers to Conflict Resolution (1995) and Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes (2000), each of which won the CPR Prize as the best book relating to dispute resolution in the year of its initial publication. In addition to his law school teaching, Professor Mnookin has taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms throughout the world and trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills. He has served as a consultant to various governments and agencies and as a neutral has resolved a number of complex commercial disputes. Michael Moffitt Assistant Professor of Law Michael Moffitt is the associate director of the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program and assistant 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 Program of Instruction of Lawyers negotiation offerings in various capacities since 1992. Bruce M. Patton Deputy Director, Harvard Negotiation Project Bruce Patton is deputy director 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 PIL 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 Bussey Professor of Law 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 Lecturer on Law Douglas Stone is a partner at Triad Consulting Group in Cambridge. He is an affiliate of the Harvard Negotiation Project, where for ten years he was Associate Director. Along with Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, he developed PIL's Advanced Negotiation Workshop and has taught it since 1991. As Lecturer on Law, he taught Harvard Law School's Negotiation Workshop to law and other graduate students. Mr. Stone has been engaged in mediation work in South Africa, Cyprus, and the U.S., and has taught negotiation and mediation to lawyers, executives, teachers, psychologists, journalists and diplomats around the world. He is co-author, along with Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Viking/Penguin). His articles on negotiation have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. He is a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School and has worked as an attorney in Boston and New York. Guhan Subramanian Joseph Flom Assistant Professor of Law and Business; Member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Program on Negotiation 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 deal-making, 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. Copyright ©2005 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Page Last Modified: July 19, 2005 Contact: pon@law.harvard.edu