Michael Moffitt is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, where he teaches negotiation, dispute resolution, and civil procedure. He is also the Associate Director of the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center at the University of Oregon. He was formerly a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught Negotiation, and served as the Clinical Supervisor of the Harvard Mediation Program. He continues to teach executive education courses each year through the Harvard Negotiation Institute. Mr. Moffitt spent several years as a consultant with Conflict Management Group, designing and delivering mediation services, negotiation coaching, and training workshops in about twenty countries. His clients have ranged from senior judges to tribal leaders, from unionized prison guards to accountants, from railroad officials to diplomatic academy trainees. His practical experience includes a wide range of complex public and private sector efforts. Working in conjunction with the World Health Organization, he has worked to help developing countries in Africa and Asia to improve their negotiations regarding health sector funding. He helped lead intervention and assistance programs to disputing parties in the ethnically divided Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union. Mr. Moffitt has also provided strategic assistance and advice to corporate, non-profit, and governmental teams preparing for important negotiations, including land and water claims, labor contracts and dispute settlements.
Courses taught:
Civil Procedure (Fall), Oregon Law
Mediation (Spring), Oregon Law
Negotiation Workshop: Creating Value in Deals & Disputes, Harvard Negotiation Institute
Research Interests: Negotiation, mediation, dispute settlement, contract negotiations, international dispute resolution
Select Publications:
The Four Ways to Assure Mediator Quality (and why none of them work), 24 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 191 (2009).
Three Things to Be Against (”Settlement” Not Included), 78 Fordham Law Review 1203 (2009).
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).