PROF. JAMES R. COBEN is a Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and former Director of Hamline’s Dispute Resolution Institute, consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the top five among U.S. Law School Dispute Resolution programs.

Professor Coben teaches civil procedure and a variety of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) courses and created three Hamline foreign programs – International Commercial Arbitration Program in London, International Business Transactions Negotiation Program in Rome, and a program in Democratic Dialogue and Mediation in Budapest. He also pioneered a variety of innovative ADR clinical opportunities for law students, including mediation advocacy on behalf of clients in family law and employment cases.

He has published numerous ADR-related articles, is co-editor of the four volume Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Series (DRI Press), a founding editor of Tán Pàn: The Chinese- English Journal on Negotiation, and co-author of the third edition of Mediation: Law, Policy & Practice (West 2011).