About
Matthias Raphael Prause is a graduate of Harvard Law School’s LL.M. program and a senior research fellow at the Institute for International Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in Germany. He studied at Tuft’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, focusing on International and Multilateral Negotiations, and worked for the European Center for Comparative Government and Public Policy (Europäisches Zentrum für Staatswissenschaft und Staatspraxis), a joint research consortium of the three Berlin Universities. During his time at Harvard Law School he was teaching on the Political, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives of European Integration as Teaching Fellow at Harvard University’s Government Department and served as Training Director of the Harvard Negotiators at Harvard Law School. He has worked as a Court Mediator at Quincy District Court and was teaching mediation within the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP).
In his scholarly work on ADR he focuses on the philosophical and dogmatic underpinnings of mediation and its integration into the Civil Justice System. During his two years at Harvard Law School he worked intensively with Professor Frank E.A. Sander, the Doyen of the modern ADR Movement, on the implementation if the Mediation Receptivity Index (MRI), an empirical tool to measure the geographical distribution of mediation receptivity. The findings of this project were published at Harvard Negation Law Review and the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. Beside ADR his research focuses on International Private Law and the dogmatics of Contract Law. He teaches at Munich University (LMU).