Michael Moffitt

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
James O. and Alfred T. Goodwin Senior Faculty Fellow
Associate Director, ADR Center
Associate Professor of Law

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Phone: (541) 346-0506
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Before joining the UO faculty in 2001, Professor Moffitt served as the clinical supervisor for the mediation program at Harvard Law School and taught negotiation at Harvard Law School and at the Ohio State University College of Law. He served as the President of the Harvard Mediation Program during his final year of law school. Moffitt was a judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich in the Northern District of Ohio. He then spent several years with Conflict Management Group, consulting on negotiation and dispute resolution projects around the world. Moffitt's clients have ranged from senior judges to tribal leaders, from unionized prison guards to corporate executives, from national political leaders to diplomatic academy trainees. Most of his research and writing has centered on the practice of mediation, negotiation and dispute resolution. Moffitt received the University of Oregon's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2004. He and his spouse are devoted but mediocre snowboarders, aggressive tennis players, avid wine tasters, and sleep-deprived parents.

Recent Publications

Three Things to Be Against ("Settlement" Not Included), ___ FORDHAM LAW REVIEW ___ (forthcoming 2009).

Islands, Vitamins, Salt, Germs: Four Visions of the Future of ADR in Law Schools, ___ OHIO STATE JOURNAL ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION ___ (forthcoming 2009/2010).

DISPUTE RESOLUTION: EXAMPLES & EXPLANATIONS, (Aspen 2008), co-authored with Andrea Kupfer Schneider.

Customized Litigation: The Case for Making Civil Procedure Negotiable, 75 George Washington Law Review 461 (2007).

THE HANDBOOK OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION (Jossey-Bass 2005), co-edited with Robert C. Bordone.

Pleadings in the Age of Settlement, 80 Indiana Law Journal 729 (2005).

The Handbook of Dispute Resolution, co-edited with Robert C. Bordone (Jossey-Bass 2005).

Suing Mediators , 83 Boston University Law Review 147 (2003).