Rishi Batra is Associate Director of the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School, where he also serves as a Lecturer in Law. A nationally recognized speaker and scholar in alternative dispute resolution, his work spans negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and the teaching of ADR, along with contracts, property, and intellectual property. He regularly leads trainings across the country on legal negotiation and mediation strategy and on dispute resolution pedagogy. At the Gould Center he teaches undergraduate and graduate students and leads training and coaching for resident assistants, staff, and faculty across the university, and he contributes to Stanford’s ePluribus initiative on constructive dialogue and civic engagement.

Batra has taught negotiation and dispute resolution across an unusually broad range of institutions — military, public, and private. Most recently he was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Previously, he was the first civilian director of the Leadership and Appropriate Dispute Resolution (LADR) program at the United States Air Force Academy, training future officers in negotiation principles and strategy. He held the Englehart Chair as a full professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law. As a tenured professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, he founded and ran the Academy for Leadership in the Legal Profession (ALLP) and earned the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Earlier, as the Langdon Fellow in Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, he co-founded and first directed the Ohio State Student Mediation Program, and supervised students in hundreds of small-claims, landlord-tenant, and criminal mediations. He has also taught as a visiting professor or lecturer at the University of Oregon, UNLV, and Santa Clara.

Batra’s scholarship brings a dispute resolution perspective to fields as varied as criminal procedure and election law, with work appearing in the George Mason Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and the University of Kansas Law Review, among others. He has been active in the field’s national leadership, serving as co-chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s Law Schools Committee — including co-chairing the national ABA Representation in Mediation Competition — and on the Section’s Council, and he currently sits on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section of Dispute Resolution. His path in the field traces to his first negotiation course at Harvard Law School, where he also served as training director for the Harvard Mediation Program.