Marjorie Corman Aaron is Professor of Practice and Executive Director, Center for Practice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, teaching courses in alternative dispute resolution, mediation and negotiation.

Ms. Aaron is an active mediator, arbitrator, and trainer in negotiation and dispute resolution in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a mediator panelist, sustaining academic member of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and serves on CPR's ADR Training Faculty.

Ms. Aaron is also an arbitrator for the John Hancock Class Action Dispute Resolution Process, and a mediator panelist for the Merrill, Lynch and United Airlines dispute resolution processes, and for JAMS-ADR. She serves on the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, the Ethics Commission of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and the Publications Committee of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution.

Until July, 1998, Ms. Aaron was the Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School ("PON"), where she was also a lecturer teaching negotiation. Prior to joining PON, Ms. Aaron was a Vice President at Endispute (now known as JAMS-ADR) and a panel mediator for the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse. Ms. Aaron has mediated disputes involving general commercial contracts, employment, age and gender discrimination, business torts, products liability, personal injury, complex construction and design claims, corporate partnership, environmental claims and allocation issues, real estate and business valuation, real estate trusts, and medical, legal and other professional malpractice.

Ms. Aaron has designed and taught numerous workshops on mediation, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation decision analysis for law firms, corporations and universities. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, cases, and guides in the field of negotiation, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution.

A 1978 graduate of Princeton University and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School, Ms. Aaron practiced civil litigation at the Boston Firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar and criminal litigation as an Assistant District Attorney in Plymouth County before entering the field of dispute resolution.

Download a copy of Professor Aaron's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

Assisting Settlement Decisions with Numbers, Trees and Maps, in Handbook on Dispute Resolution (Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, forthcoming 2005)

Mediators At Work: Termination Tempest (Video, Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, 2004) (with Dwight Golann)

At First Glance: Maximizing the Mediator's Initial Contact, 20 Alternatives (Oct. & Dec. 2002)

The Right Frame: Managing Meaning and Making Proposals, 2 Harvard Management Communication Letter 1-4 (1999).

Negotiating, in Harvard Managementor, (Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999).

Using Evaluations in Mediation, 52 Dispute Resolution Journal 26-34 (1997) (with Dwight Golann).

Evaluation in Mediation, in Mediating Legal Disputes 267-305 (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997).

Decision Analysis as a Method of Evaluating the Trial Alternative, in Mediating Legal Disputes 307-334 (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997) (with David P. Hoffer, Esq.).

The Value of Decision Analysis in Mediation Practice 11 Negotiaton Journal 123 (1995). (Awarded Second Prize for Excellence by the Center for Public Resources (CPR) Institute for Dispute Resolution).