Russell Korobkin is professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches negotiation, contracts, and health care law. He also conducts negotiation training workshops for lawyers and other professionals and provides mediation services. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, he taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Texas. Korobkin is the author of the textbook Negotiation Theory and Strategy (2002), as well as more than thirty scholarly articles on negotiating in the transactional and dispute resolution contexts and other topics that combine law, economics, and psychology. Before entering law teaching, Korobkin received his B.A. and J.D. from Stanford University, clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Covington and Burling.