Abstract
Each year, the UCLA School of Law presents the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching to an outstanding law professor. On Thursday, April 14, 2024, this honor was given to Dean Russell Korobkin. UCLA Law Review Discourse is proud to continue its tradition of publishing a modified version of the ceremony speech delivered by the award recipient.
About the Author
Russell Korobkin is the Richard C. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He has been a member of the UCLA Law faculty since 2001, has served as a Vice Dean since 2015, and served as Interim Dean from 2022-23. He is the author of The Five Tool Negotiator: The Complete Guide to Bargaining Success (Liveright, 2021), Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology (Yale, 2008), three textbooks—Private Law: A Casebook for Master’s Degree Students (West, 2025); Negotiation Theory and Strategy (Aspen, 4th ed., 2024) and K: A Common Law Approach to Contracts (Aspen, 3d. ed., 2022)—and more than 50 journal articles on behavioral law and economics, negotiation, contracts, and health care law. A former San Francisco management consultant and Washington D.C. lawyer, Professor Korobkin earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University. In addition to UCLA, he has taught full time at the University of Illinois, University of Texas, and Harvard University Law Schools, and he has taught intensive negotiation courses to undergraduates, business students and law students at 10 universities on four continents.
