Douglas Yarn

Executive Director, CNCR Professor, College of Law Georgia State University P.O. Box 4037 Atlanta, GA 30302-4037 (404) 413-9147 - phone  (404) 413-9225 - fax dyarngsu.edu http://law.gsu.edu/dyarn/ M.Litt., University of Cambridge, 1991 J.D., University of Georgia, 1984 B.A., Duke University, 1976

Doug Yarn is Executive Director of the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, where he teaches alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and professional responsibility.

An experienced mediator and arbitrator, Professor Yarn has been an ADR Fellow of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), Director of the AAA’s Center for International Commercial Disputes, a Salzburg Fellow in international environmental negotiation and a Gruter Institute Research Fellow.

From 1989-94, he served as in-house attorney, mediator, and panelist trainer for the AAA. He has served as a facilitator in numerous public policy disputes involving issues such as access to health care, land use, and the environment. He has trained mediators and arbitrators nationwide and designed conflict management systems for private and public entities, domestic and international. He served as a member of the Georgia Supreme Court’s Commission on Dispute Resolution and is an advisor for the University System of Georgia Board of Regents’ Conflict Resolution Initiative.

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