Philip Harter

Philip J. Harter is Scholar in Residence at Vermont Law School and Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law Eme­ritus at the University of Missouri. Professor Harter has been involved in the design of many of the major developments of Administrative Law in the past 40 years. He is the author of more than 50 papers and books on Administrative Law and has been a visiting professor or guest lecturer internationally, including visiting at the University of Paris II, Humboldt University (Berlin), and the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town); he has consulted in China, including a project sponsored by the Peoples Supreme Court. He has received multiple awards for his achievements in Administrative Law. He is listed in Who's Who in America and is a member of the Admin­istrative Conference of the United States.

Mr. Harter has been a pioneer in both the theory and practice of the use of collabo­ration, mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution involving government agencies. His research provided the theoretical basis for negotiated rulemaking and has served as the foundation for the subsequent practice. He served as the chair of the President's Task Force on the Revision of the Occupational Safety and Health Admin­istration's (OSHA) Safety Standards. He was Chair of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association and Co-chair of its Task Force on Regulatory Reform in which capacity he represented the ABA in the regula­tory reform debates before Congress.

Following his path breaking article on negotiating regulations, he spent twenty years in private practice specializing in the mediation of complex, multi-party disputes involving government policy. He has served as the mediator for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Interior, Labor, and Transportation, as well as the States of California and Vermont.

Professor Harter graduated from Kenyon College in 1964; received an MA (ABD) in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1966; and a JD from Michigan in 1969.