About the Program

UCLA School of Law's new Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program promotes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the competition for scarce resources in legal, business and interpersonal contexts.  The program's broad mission includes the study of private and public transactions and disputes in domestic and international arenas. It brings together a community of scholars and students from a variety of fields across UCLA and throughout southern California with overlapping scholarly, teaching and practice interests. 

Inaugural Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Colloquium

In the 2010 spring semester, the program will present its inaugural Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Colloquium, featuring leading scholars in the field from around the nation.  All colloquium presentations are free and open to the public. CLE credit (1.5 hours per presentation) will be available for members of the California Bar at no charge.  All meetings will be held on Thursday afternoons from 3:05-4:45 in the Bruce H. Spector Conference Room at UCLA School of Law. 

             Click here for Colloquium Schedule.

            For more information, please contact Karen Mathews ( mathews@law.ucla.edu).

About the Director

Russell KorobkinProfessor Russell Korobkin is the program's faculty director. He is the author of Negotiation Theory and Strategy (2d ed., 2009), as well as more than 50 scholarly and popular articles on negotiation, mediation and other subjects. In addition to teaching negotiation, contracts and health care law at UCLA, he has taught negotiation at Harvard, Vanderbilt, Pepperdine, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Arizona, and he regularly teaches short courses in negotiation to M.B.A. students at the German Graduate School of Business and Law in Heilbronn, Germany, and LL.M. students at Latrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He also provides private mediation services and conducts negotiation training workshops for legal and business organizations. Prior to entering academia, Professor Korobkin received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Stanford University, clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and worked as a lawyer at Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. 

            Click here for Professor Korobkin's web page .

Senior Fellows

The Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program's Senior Fellows are faculty members from UCLA and other area universities who conduct research related to negotiation and conflict resolution and who participate regularly in the program's activities.

Corinne Bendersky
Corinne Bendersky, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She has been a member of the faculty since 2002, and teaches in the MBA and Fully-Employed MBA programs. She received her B.A. with honors from Oberlin College, and her Ph.D. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.

Professor Bendersky's research focuses on various aspects of organizational conflict management and negotiation processes. Her dissertation was on various arrays of dispute resolution options offered by organizations to deal with internal employment conflicts and their relative benefits. This research has appeared in the Academy of Management Review and is forthcoming in Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Most recently, she was awarded the Best Empirical Paper award from the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management annual conference. She was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Completed in 2001-2002 and the best Article or Book Published in 2002 from the International Association for Conflict Management (2005).

Other research includes negotiations of status and social order in organizations, how managerial controls affect employee's fairness evaluations and the social psychological mechanisms underlying negotiator's preference changes.

Dr. Bendersky previously worked as a mediator, dispute systems design consultant and negotiation trainer.

Daniel J. Bussel
Professor Daniel Bussel's scholarship focuses on contract law and bankruptcy.  For nearly two decades at UCLA Law, he has taught Contracts, Bankruptcy, Corporate Reorganizations, Commercial Law I and Advanced Commercial Law.  Since 2001, Professor Bussel has been a partner at Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, a premier business reorganization and corporate insolvency boutique law firm.  He brings both theoretical insights and relevant practical experience in bankruptcy to his classes at the law school.

Upon graduating from law school, Professor Bussel clerked first for Justice Stephen G. Breyer, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Thereafter, he served for one year as an associate independent counsel for the U. S. Department of Justice in connection with the criminal investigation of the Wedtech scandal. Professor Bussel later practiced law at O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, specializing in corporate reorganization. He is a Fellow at the Amercian College of Bankruptcy and is listed in Southern California Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America.

Professor Bussel's most recent casebooks include Bankruptcy (with Professor William Warren) (8th ed. 2009) and Contract Law and Its Application (with Professor Arthur Rosett) (7th ed. 2007).

Peter Carnevale
Professor Peter Carnevale is a researcher on negotiation, mediation, group problem solving and creativity, whose work is published in leading psychology and management journals. Since 2007, Professor Carnevale has been a member of the faculty of USC Marshall School of Business. Previously, he was Professor of Psychology at New York University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book (with Carsten de Dreu), Methods of Negotiation Research, was winner of the 2008 International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) Award for Most Outstanding Book. He was recipient of the Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award from the Harvard University Program on Negotiation and International Association for Conflict Management, the Most Influential Article Award from the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management and the Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award from the International Society of Political Psychology. His current research on negotiation is funded by the National Science Foundation. He teaches negotiation in the MBA, undergraduate, and Ph.D. programs at USC as well as in the Global Executive MBA Program, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Professor Carnevale received his B.A. from the University of Delaware and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. 

Kenneth N. Klee
Kenneth N. Klee is a nationally recognized expert on bankruptcy law. He is a tenured professor at UCLA School of Law and a founding partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, specializing in corporate reorganization, insolvency and bankruptcy law.  From 1974 to 1977, Professor Klee served as associate counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, where he was one of the principal drafters of the 1978 Bankruptcy Code. He served as a consultant on bankruptcy legislation to the U.S. Department of Justice in 1983-1984. From 1992-2000, he served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules to the Judicial Conference of the United States. From 2000-2003, and previously from 1988-1990, Professor Klee served as a lawyer delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. He has served as member of the executive committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference from 1985 to 1988 and 2005-2008.  He also served as chair of the NBC's legislation committee from 1992 to 1999. Professor Klee is a past president and member of the board of governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference.  On several occasions, Law Dragon has included him among the top 500 lawyers in the United States.  From 2003-2009 he was named by the Daily Journal as one of California's Top 100 Lawyers.  In the February 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions of Los Angeles Magazine, he was named one of the Top 10 Super Lawyers for Los Angeles County.  In March 2005, he was named by the Century City Bar as Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year.  In November 2006, the Central District of California Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Association bestowed on him the Calvin Ashland Award as consumer bankruptcy attorney of the year.  In October, 2007 he received the Excellence in Education Award from the Endowment for Education of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.  Professor Klee has authored Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court (LexisNexis 2008) and co-authored Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy (with Scarberry, 1995, 2d ed. 2001, 3d ed. 2006) and Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Law (4th ed., with Treister, 1996).  He has authored or co-authored over 30 law review articles on bankruptcy law.

Timothy F. Malloy
Timothy Malloy is a Professor of Law, and is one of the Faculty Directors of the UCLA Law and Environmental Health Sustainable Technology Policy Program.  He teaches Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions, Regulatory Lawyering, Regulation of the Business Firm and Contracts.  To varying degrees, each of the courses focuses upon transactional aspects of law and lawyering, including negotiation in a variety of contexts. With Ann Carlson and Sean Hecht, Professor Malloy is also Co-Director of the School of Law's Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic. He is a member of the UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, and serves on the State of California Green Ribbon Science Panel.  After receiving his law degree, Professor Malloy clerked for Judge Donald W. VanArtsdalen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1998, after spending a combined 12 years in practice at private firms and at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region III. His practice involved transactional work, compliance counseling and environmental litigation.  Professor Malloy's research interests focus on environmental, chemical and nanotechnology policy, regulatory policy and organizational theory, with particular emphasis on the relationship between regulatory design and implementation and the structure of business organizations.

Forrest Mosten
Forrest "Woody" Mosten is a collaborative attorney, mediator, author and adjunct professor of law at UCLA School of Law who is in high demand as a key note conference speaker and conflict resolution seminars throughout the world. Named as a Los Angeles Super Lawyer in Family Law and Mediation, Mosten maintains an active practice as a family lawyer and never goes to court. The California State Bar has recognizes him as a Certified Family Law Specialist. He is editor of Family Court Review's Special Issue on Collaborative Practice to be published April, 2011, Chair of the National Task Force for a Peacemaking Museum, and has been honored by UC Riverside with the establishment of the Forrest S. Mosten Peace and Conflict Resolution Program and by the Southern California Mediation Association by the Forrest S. Mosten Conflict Resolution Library Program.  He is the recipient of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section's Lawyer as Problem Solver Award, ABA Lifetime Legal Access Award, ABA Frank Sander Lecturer, Southern California Peacemaker of the Year and is the recipient of  the prestigious Los Angeles County Bar Louis M. Brown Conflict Prevention Award (William Ury and Dennis Ross are two other recipients).

Mosten is the author of four  books and numerous articles on conflict resolution and legal access. He is and is dedicated to encourage professionals on all levels to make peacemaking their day job. He can be reached at www.MostenMediation.com.

Katherine V.W. Stone
Professor Katherine Stone is a leading expert in arbitration law, labor and employment law, and the law of dispute resolution in the United States.  Since 2004, Professor Stone has been a member of the faculty of UCLA School of Law.  Previously, she was Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution at Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She has also taught at Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, New York University Law School, and the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School.  Professor Stone received her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.  She practiced law at Cohen Weiss & Simon and at Rabinowitz Boudin Standard Krinsky & Lieberman in New York City.

Professor Stone was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2008 and a Russell Sage Fellowship for 2008-2009 for her work on the changing nature of employment and the regulatory implications.  Her recent book, From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (Cambridge University Press in 2004) won the 2005 Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association for the "outstanding book that best links scholarship to struggles for justice in the real world."  The book was also the Finalist (Second Place) for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.  Her latest book, ARBITRATION LAW, 2ND EDITION, was published by the Foundation Press in 2010.  Earlier books by Professor Stone include Rethinking Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (with Benjamin Aaron, eds.) (Van Der Plas Press, 2007);  Arbitration Law (Foundation Press, 2003) and Private Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution and The Law (Foundation Press, 2000).

Professor Stone teaches courses in arbitration law, labor law, employment law, labor and social policy, and contract law.  She is an active participant in a number of organizations and committees, including the Law and Society Association, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and the International Society of Labor Law and Social Security (Executive Board). She has serves on the United Nations Committee of Experts for its Decent Work Initiative.