The author of more than two dozen scholarly articles on mediation, negotiation, dispute resolution, and civil procedures, he is also co-editor of The Handbook of Dispute Resolution, an award-winning compilation featuring work by leading scholars and practitioners.
His initial goal was to investigate, compare, and identify certain truths on which all or nearly all Christians could agree, reserving to further scholarly study and continuing negotiation (but not to public discussion by the uneducated) those issues, such as the precise extent of the will's freedom, on which substantial agreement could not be reached.
The University of California system's recent decision to walk away from negotiations with scholarly journal publishing giant Elsevier highlights once again the many problems within the scientific publishing business, a $10 billion-per-year worldwide enterprise that is the bedrock of modern science.
He serves on the editorial board of management and engineering scholarly journals, such as: Group Decision and Negotiation, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics and Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering.
A renaissance man, he could authoritatively bark commands during space combat, skillfully broker interstellar negotiations and credibly participate in scholarly archaeological work.
"The spirit of these negotiations has sought to maintain scholarly access to important works of art while honoring international agreements relative to the disposition of cultural property," said James Steward, director of the Princeton University museum.
PON currently supports numerous scholarly projects, provides teaching materials through its Teaching Negotiation Resource Center, and inspires and informs hundreds of lawyers and executives through executive education training throughout the year.
With scholarly interests that range across environmental policy, bargaining and negotiation, economics, law, and public policy, he is a recognized expert on the resolution of environmental disputes, and more recently has turned his academic focus to issues facing higher education.
He is the author or co-author of four books and numerous scholarly articles on topics related to environmental policy, economics, land use law, negotiation, and occupational health and safety.
Earlier today, the University of California ended negotiations with Elsevier, one of the world's largest scholarly journal publishers.
