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David Matz has been active in the conflict resolution field for over 20 years mediating, training and teaching. He served as Director of the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts/Boston between 1986 and 2010 and on the faculty as a law professor since 1973. In 1989-90, Matz served as Fulbright Professor of Law at the University of Tel Aviv.
Matz has mediated a wide variety of cases with particular emphasis in:
- commercial disputes
- employment disputes
- health care disputes
- family business disputes
- disputes within organizations
- disputes within universities
Matz serves on panels for the Superior Courts of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution Environmental Panel and the American Arbitration Association Employment Disputes Panel.
Matz has designed and conducted trainings in mediation, negotiation, and conflict systems design for attorneys, judges, engineers, university faculty and deans, environmental staff, prison superintendents, doctors, business executives, school teachers and school committees, and other government officers.
With TMG colleague Brad Honoroff, Matz has designed mediation systems for the Superior Courts in Suffolk, Norfolk and Middlesex Counties. Matz is consultant to the Chief Justice of the High Court and to the Ministry of Justice in Israel. His work has focused on the development of mediation and other ADR techniques for use in the Israeli courts. In Israel he has trained numerous judges, attorneys, executives, and mediators, and has lectured widely on the uses of mediation in many contexts.
Matz has chaired the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Boston Bar Association, has served on the Governor's Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution, and the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution. He is a member of SPIDR . Matz received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1963.
His most recent publications include: Teaching Negotiation Online, Beyond the Classroom, DRI Press 2010, What Really Happened in the Negotiation, Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, DRI Press 2009, The Inevitability and Perils of ‘Invisible’ Health-Care Conflict, Hamline Journal of Law and Public Policy, Fall 2007.
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