Hi everybody, I'm Noam Ebner and I have the
extreme privilege of being the teacher in
this course. Outside of the course, I'm married,
we have four children, and I enjoy jogging
and napping although I don't always get to
do enough of either of those. What is it I
have done that has brought me to the point
of being with you here in this course? Well,
I have a couple of degrees in law. I've been
practicing negotiation and dispute resolution
for the past fifteen years in a variety of
capacities. I've been an attorney, a negotiator,
a negotiation consultant and a mediator. As
a professor, I like to think that my teaching
career has involved teaching negotiation and
dispute resolution in a series of beautiful
places around the world which has been a very
exciting and fulfilling way to spend your
adult life. Over the course of the past seven
years, I've been teaching at the Werner Institute
at Creighton University School of Law which
has allowed me to teach in no less a beautiful
place all around the world in the sense that
I've been teaching online, and I think the
internet is certainly a beautiful place in
that sense. The internet allows us, among
other things, allows us to overcome distance
and it allows us to overcome scale, and that
has allowed us to do what we're about to attempt
to do in this class, to teach a class that
is studied around the world by so many people
at once that, just a few years ago, it would
never have been imaginable, and obviously
that's going to create something very special.
One thing that I'm particularly looking forward
to is the learning that I'm going to be doing
in this class. Every time that I teach a course
on negotiation, I learn so much. I learn so
much from my students and their interactions
and my interactions with them. I learn about
people. I learn about conflict. I learn about
negotiation, and I can only imagine how much
I'm about to learn in this course with so
many student-teachers out there, so I'd like
to pre-thank you all for my own learning.
I'd like to welcome you all to this course,
and I hope that you all find just what is
you came here to find. Let's get started.
