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Clark
Freshman

Professor of Law

  • Office 330-200
  • Email Address freshman@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 581-8804
  • Follow Me on LinkedIn

Biography

Professor Clark Freshman was a professor of law at the University of Miami from 1995 until 2007 before joining the UC Law SF faculty in 2007. He received his B.A. from Harvard, where his senior thesis facilitated a pardon in the infamous Leo Frank case, an M.A. from University College, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He clerked for Judge William Norris of the Ninth Circuit and practiced appellate and entertainment dispute resolution with Manatt Phelps in Los Angeles for several years. He is also a mediator, negotiation trainer, and expert witness on arbitration. He has been an invited speaker on negotiation at many law schools, including Harvard, Yale, and UCLA. His work has appeared in law reviews at Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, and elsewhere.

Professor Freshman’s scholarship and teaching focuses primarily on dispute resolution, including law and psychology, the effect of emotion on dispute resolution, lie detection, and emotional skills. In collaboration with Paul Ekman, the scientific advisor to Fox’s Lie to Me, Professor Freshman trains lawyers and negotiators in lie detection and emotional skills worldwide. Professor Freshman also works with the Center for Contemplative Mind to promote meditation and other contemplative practices among lawyers and law students. His scholarship addresses 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.

In his spare time, Professor Freshman enjoys all kinds of yoga, weightlifting, meditation, in-line skating, travel, movies and any opportunity to visit the beach or other water with and without his Tibetan terrier, Tara.

Expertise

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Lie Detection and Deception

Education

  1. Stanford Law School 1991

    J.D. (With Distinction), Law

  2. Oxford University 1988

    B.A., Philosophy, Politics and Economics

  3. Harvard University 1986

    A.B. (Magna Cum Laude), History and Government

Selected Scholarship

  1. Mindful Judging 1.5: The Science of Attention, "Lie Detection," and Bias Reduction - With Kindness 2016

    Journal of Dispute Resolution

  2. Lie Detection and the Negotiation Within 2011

    Harvard Negotiation Law Review

  3. Yes, And: Core Concerns, Internal Mindfulness, and External Mindfulness for Emotional Balance, Lie Detection, and Successful Negotiation 2010

    Nevada Law Journal

  4. Lawyer-Negotiator as Mood Scientist: What We Know and Don't Know about How Mood Relates to Successful Negotiation, The 2002

    Journal of Dispute Resolution

  5. Adapting meditation to promote negotiation success: A guide to varieties and scientific support 2002

    Harvard Negotiation Law Journal

  6. Whatever Happened to Anti-Semitism-How Social Science Theories Identify Discrimination and Promote Coalitions between Different Minorities 2000

    Cornell Law Review

  7. Privatizing Same-Sex Marriage through Alternative Dispute Resolution: Community-Enhancing versus Community-Enabling Mediation 1997

    UCLA Law Review

Courses

  1. Negotiation Mediation Procedure and Practice
  2. Lie Detection and Emotion Mindfulness
  3. Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar
  4. Arbitration

Links

  1. Publications

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