Frank Sander

Frank E.A. Sander is a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in mathematics in 1949 and from Harvard Law School in 1952. Sander specializes in alternative dispute resolution and is widely credited with being a father of the field in the United States as a result of his paper, The Varieties of Dispute Processing, presented at the Pound Conference in 1976 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His book, Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes, which he coauthored with Stephen B. Goldberg, Nancy H. Rogers, and Sarah Rudolph Cole, is used in law schools throughout the United States.

Sander, an expert on taxation, family law and dispute settlement, became professor of law at Harvard Law School in 1962, Bussey Professor in 1981, and served as associate dean from 1987 to 2000. He became Bussey Professor Emeritus in June 2006.

Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927, Sander came to the United States in 1940, and attended Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts, before coming to Harvard College in 1944. He received the A.B. degree magna cum laude in mathematics in 1949 (having served a year in the U.S. Army) and the L.L.B. degree magna cum laude in 1952. While a student, he was treasurer of the Harvard Law Review and president of the Pierian Sodality (Harvard Orchestra). He was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

After receiving the L.L.B. and before joining the Harvard faculty in 1959, Sander served as law clerk to Chief Judge Magruder of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1952–53) and as law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court (1953–54). Following this he was an attorney in the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (1954–56) and was associated with the Boston firm of Hill and Barlow (1956–59).

Sander is the co‑author of Cases and Materials on Family Law (3rd edition), initially published by Little Brown in 1966, of Tax Aspects of Divorce and Separation (4th edition), published by BNA in 1985, and of Readings in Federal Taxation (2nd edition), published by Foundation Press in 1983. He has also written a number of articles in the taxation and family law fields, has lectured to numerous bar associations and served as consultant to the United States Treasury Department and the Ontario Law Reform Commission.

In 1966 he was the director of a special summer program at Harvard Law School which brought 40 Black college students to Cambridge for the purpose of interesting them in pursuing a legal career. From 1968 to 1970 Sander served as the chairman of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, a national organization devoted to the recruitment and training of disadvantaged persons for the law.

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