RUSSELL KOROBKIN

Russell Korobkin is the Richard C. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA. He has taught negotiation to law and business school students, and trained professionals in negotiation, across the globe for 25 years. He is a frequent speaker on negotiation skills and strategies and serves as a mediator for legal disputes.

He has published more than 50 scholarly articles, academic books, and textbooks, not only on negotiation and dispute resolution, but also on contract law, health care law, biomedical research and legal theory. His academic work relies heavily on experimental research in behavioral economics and social psychology on how people evaluate information, form preferences and make decisions, and the consequences that these processes have on how people behave in the world.

Before becoming a professor, Korobkin graduated with highest honors from Stanford University and Stanford Law School, worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He has taught full-time at Harvard, the University of Texas and the University of Illinois, and regularly teaches intensive short courses in negotiation at universities on four continents.

At UCLA, Korobkin teaches courses in Negotiation, Contract Law, Private Law, Health Care Law, Behavioral Law and Economics, and Introduction to Law. He formerly served as the law school’s Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, and he is now the Vice Dean for Graduate and Professional Education, overseeing the school’s master’s degree programs for non-lawyer professionals and for foreign lawyers. He lives in Los Angeles.