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Russell Korobkin
Professor of Law
B.A. Stanford, 1989
J.D. Stanford, 1994
UCLA Law faculty since 2000
korobkin@law.ucla.edu |
Russell Korobkin teaches Negotiation, Contracts, and Health Care Law. His scholarship focuses on negotiation and dispute resolution, behavioral law and economics, contracts, and health care law. In addition to teaching at the law school, he is a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and provides private negotiation training and mediation services.
Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2000, Professor Korobkin was an assistant and then associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs and a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He has also taught negotiation courses on a visiting basis at the University of Nevada Law Vegas, the University of Arizona, Pepperdine University, and LaTrobe University (Australia). Before entering law teaching, Professor Korobkin received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Stanford University, clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, DC.
Professor Korobkin is the author the textbook, NEGOTIATION THEORY AND STRATEGY (2002), along with more than 30 law journal articles. His recent publications include Roadblocks to the Road Map: A Negotiation Theory Perspective on the Past Failures and Future Prospects of Land for Peace, 30 YALE J. INT'L L. J. 1 (2005) (with Jonathan Zasloff), The Failed Jurisprudence of Managed Care, and How to Fix It: Reinterpreting ERISA Preemption, 51 UCLA L. REV. 457 (2003), Bounded Rationality and Unconscionability: A Behavioral Approach to Policing Form Contracts, 70 U. CHI. L. REV. 1203 (2003), and The Endowment Effect and Legal Analysis, 97 NW. U. L. REV. 1227 (2003). Past and present working papers may be viewed at http://ssrn.com/author=45482.
