Robert Alan Baruch Bush (born January 24, 1948) is an American legal scholar working as the Harry H. Rains Distinguished Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from the Stanford Law School in 1974.
[1] Together with Joseph Folger of Temple University he is the originator, and best known advocate, of the transformative model of mediation.
In 2006 he received the Annual PeaceBuilder Award by the New York State Dispute Resolution Association to honor individuals and organizations that have promoted the field of ADR.
[1] Coming from a secular Jewish environment, in his adult life, Bush became an orthodox Chabad Jew.