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Prof. Golann is a Research Professor at the University of California College of Law, San Francisco, and Suffolk University Law School. He teaches mediation and negotiation for dispute resolution organizations across the United States and has taught in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. He is an active mediator who has mediated hundreds of legal disputes.
Professor Golann has published widely in the field of dispute resolution. He is the author of the American Bar Association’s leading books on mediation and on mediation advocacy, the European Union’s Ebook on mediation advocacy, and numerous articles, and is co-author of two law school textbooks. He holds the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and the American Bar Association’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Dispute Resolution and is former Scholar in Residence and an Honorary Member of the International Academy of Mediators.
Prior to joining the Suffolk Law School faculty, Professor Golann was a civil litigator, practicing with a Boston law firm, and also was Chief of Consumer Protection for the Massachusetts Attorney General. He later served as Chief of the Government Bureau and Trial Division for the Attorney General, directing the litigation and settlement of all cases against officials and agencies of the Commonwealth. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.