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Peter Robinson, J.D.
Managing Director Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Associate Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: peter.robinson@pepperdine.edu

  • J.D., Hastings College of Law, 1980
  • B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1977, magna cum laude
Professor Robinson's humor, energy and ability to articulate lessons from his mediation experiences have made him a popular lecturer and trainer; he has presented advanced negotiation and mediation skills courses in more than thirty states and in Argentina, Canada, England, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, and Mexico.

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Selected Works:
  • Adding Judicial Mediation to the Debate about Judges Attempting to Settle Cases Assigned to Them for Trial, 2006 J. DISP. RESOL. 335 (2006).
  • Peter Robinson, Arthur Pearlstein, & Bernard Mayer, DyADS: Encouraging "Dynamic Adaptive Dispute Systems" in the Organized Workplace, 10 HARV. NEGOT. L. REV. 339 (2005).
  • Centuries of Contract Common Law Can't Be All Wrong: Why the UMA's Exception to Mediation Confidentiality in Enforcement Proceedings Should be Embraced and Broadened, 2003 J. DISP. RESOL. 135 (2003).
  • Peter Robinson, Gregory L. Ogden, & Alana Knaster, Public Sector Dispute Resolution in Local Government: Lessons from the SCAG Project, 1 PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 177 (2001).
  • Peter Robinson & Matthew P. Guasco, PRINCIPLES OF NEGOTIATION: STRATEGIES, TACTICS, TECHNIQUES TO REACH AGREEMENTS (Entrepreneur Press 2007).
  • Peter Robinson & L. Randolph Lowry, Mediation Confidential, L.A. LAW., May 2001, at 28.
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