Hiro N. Aragaki is a tenured professor of law at University of California College of Law, San Francisco and the Faculty Director of its Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. He is also a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS College of Law in London, United Kingdom.
His primary interests cluster around the study of arbitration and mediation from comparative, international, and law and development perspectives. His scholarship in ADR has won prestigious accolades and been published in top U.S. law journals, including flagship law reviews at New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
He has consulted on ADR reform projects around the world, including as an Advisor to the Expert Committee on Mediation, Supreme Court of India, and an Advisor to the judiciary of Kazakhstan regarding arbitration law reforms. He has served as a mediator and arbitrator for over twenty years, most recently with JAMS.