Clark Freshman

Professor of Law

University of California-Hastings Law School

Professor Clark Freshman has been invited to speak on negotiation at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, UCLA School of Law and many other law schools. An acknowledged expert on lie detection and negotiation, his research has appeared in law reviews at Harvard, Stanford, Cornell and elsewhere.

His experience includes:

• Working with Paul Ekman, the world’s leading authority on lie detection, and Mike Wheeler, a Harvard Business School Professor, in studying lie detection and emotional recognition for lawyers and negotiators.
• Appearances as a commentator on the McNeil-Lehrer news show and citations in the New York Times and other media.
• Scholarship on dispute resolution, including law and psychology, the effect of emotion on dispute resolution, emotional skills, and the relationship between different forms of discrimination in law and social science, including both the role of discrimination in negotiation, proof of discrimination, and ways to prevent negotiation and promote acceptance.
• Training lawyers and negotiators in lie detection and emotional skills as part of the Paul Ekman Group-Training Division, including training homeland security officials in the U.S.
• Former Professor of Law, University of Miami
• Lawyer, Manatt Phelps
• Judicial clerk for Judge William Norris of the Ninth Circuit
• Stanford University, J.D.
• University College, Oxford, M.A. (Marshall Scholar)
• Harvard College, B.A.

Web link: www.ClarkFreshman.com