Michael Moffitt
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Oregon School of Law.
Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law
Associate Director, ADR Center
Before joining the Oregon law faculty in 2001, Michael 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. Following a federal judicial clerkship, he spent several years with Conflict Management Group, consulting on negotiation and dispute resolution projects around the world. Moffitt has published a number of scholarly articles on mediation, negotiation, and civil procedure. He co-edited The Handbook of Dispute Resolution, (Jossey-Bass, 2005), an award-winning compilation of 31 original chapters by leading scholars and practitioners in the field. He also co-authored the innovative, student-focused book, Dispute Resolution: Examples & Explanations (Aspen 2008). The Provost of the University of Oregon named Mr. Moffitt in the first group of recipients of a five-year award from the Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence. The Oregon law school faculty awarded Mr. Moffitt with the law school’s Orlando J. Hollis Faculty Teaching Award. He is also the recipient of the University’s Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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