About Hal Abramson

Professor Abramson is a full-time faculty member at Touro Law Center in New York where he served for nine years as vice dean responsible for academic programs, faculty development, and international programs during the formative years of the law school. He also served twice as acting dean. He was one of the first two faculty members inducted in the Law Center’s Builders Society.

Professor Harold (Hal) Abramson has been deeply involved in the development and practice of domestic and international dispute resolution for more than thirty years. He contributes as a teacher, trainer, author, and participant on professional committees and serves actively as a mediator and facilitator. He also has taught or trained on dispute resolution in nineteen countries on six continents.

For his contributions in the field of dispute resolution, Professor Abramson has been selected by Who's Who Legal as Global Elite Thought Leader for Commercial Mediation in 2024 and 2025 (50 worldwide and 13 in U.S.) and Who's Who of Commercial Mediation since 2011. He received the 2013 Peace Builder Award from the New York State Dispute Resolution Association.

He also is an award-winning author with three of his publications receiving international awards by the CPR International Institute for Conflict Resolution and Prevention (Mediation Representation Book, Nelson Mandela as a Negotiator, and Negotiating Social Change that led to repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell). In 2020, he received the Touro University Presidential Award for Scholarship.