Frank Sander

Frank E. A. Sander (July 22, 1927 – February 25, 2018) was an American professor emeritus and associate dean of Harvard Law School.

[2][3] Sander's book, Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes, which he coauthored with Stephen B. Goldberg, Nancy H. Rogers, and Sarah Rudolph Cole, is used in law schools throughout the United States.

He planned to work as a math professor but he was encouraged by his older sister to enroll at Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude with an L.L.B.

While a student, he was treasurer of the Harvard Law Review, president of the Pierian Sodality and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

In 1966 Sander was the director of a special summer program at Harvard Law School which brought 40 African American college students to Cambridge for the purpose of interesting them in pursuing a legal career.

From 1968 to 1970 Sander served as the chairman of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, a national organization devoted to the recruitment and training of disadvantaged persons for the law.

From 1961 to 1963 Sander served as a member of the Committee on Civil and Political Rights of President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women.

In 1976, at the invitation of the Chief Justice of the United States, Sander delivered a paper entitled "Varieties of Dispute Processing[4]" at the Pound Conference which put forth the notion of the multidoor courthouse.

In 1985 Sander, together with Professor Eric Green and Stephen Goldberg, authored a comprehensive book entitle Dispute Resolution published by Little Brown.

In 1990, the Center for Public Resources gave Sander a special award "for distinguished contributions to the field of alternative dispute resolution."

In 1993, the American Bar Association awarded Sander its Robert J. Kutak medal given annually to a person "who meets the highest standards of professional responsibility and demonstrates substantial achievement towards increased understanding between legal education and the active practice of law."

In the summer of 1989 he was invited by the Law Council of Australia to give a talk on US dispute resolution at the 26th Australian Legal Convention in Sydney.

Sander has also lectured in Germany, South Africa, and Japan, and given one‑week workshops on mediation in Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, and Norway.