Professor Eric D. Green is a pioneer of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the United States and around the world. He is co-founder of two prominent ADR/Mediation firms, Endispute (now part of JAMS) and Resolutions, LLC in Boston. Professor Green graduated from Harvard Law School in 1972 magna cum laude, was awarded the Knox Fellowship, which he spent at Cambridge University, England. He was a Law Clerk for Justice Benjamin Kaplan, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and then an associate and a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. Professor Green taught at Boston University School of Law and Harvard Law School for over 33 years combined.
Professor Green specializes in mediating and arbitrating complex legally-intensive multi-party cases including securities, financial, bankruptcy, sports and entertainment, intellectual property, anti-trust, professional negligence (attorney, accountant, physician), construction, product liability, pharmaceutical, mass torts, and all types of class actions. Professor Green was the Monitor for the $7 billion Consumer Relief portion of the RMBS settlement between the DOJ, six states and Bank of America, and several other RMBS settlements. He has served as a private and court-appointed mediator, special master, and trustee in thousands of cases, including the Enron securities class actions, Visa/MasterCard anti-trust cases, U.S. v. Microsoft, the Takata Airbag Tort Compensation Trust Fund, and many of the RMBS cases arising out of the last financial crisis. Professor Green was instrumental in assisting in the establishment of the Center for Public Resources (now the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution) in New York, CEDR in London and the mediation program in Hong Kong. He has been involved in training mediators and in advising on the development of mediation programs for the courts, CPR, CEDR, the Hong Kong Arbitration Authority and elsewhere. Professor Green was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. Professor Green was awarded by CPR the James F. Henry Award for outstanding contributions to the field of ADR in 2010. Professor Green was recently named by The International “Who’s Who Legal” in Commercial Mediation as the leading US-based mediator and is currently ranked as a “Band 1” national mediator by Chambers USA.
Professor Green is also a prolific writer of books and articles. He has co-authored leading law school textbooks on Evidence and Dispute Resolution, and numerous articles in each of these fields.
As of 2025, Professor Green plans to take “senior” status at Resolutions, LLC and continue his focus on building Resolutions, LLC’s complex dispute resolution practice.