Benjamin J. Cook is an associate professor at BYU Law School and the director of the BYU Center for Conflict Resolution. He teaches negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, and he runs the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Clinic at BYU Law School. He trained as a mediator through the Harvard Mediation Program, and has taught at the Harvard Negotiation Institute. In addition, he teaches workshops on dispute resolution in cities across the U.S., and has worked extensively on ADR capacity building in several countries in Africa. He earned a JD from Georgetown University, and master's and bachelor's degrees from BYU.