Biographical Sketch
Before joining the Law School faculty, Professor Craver taught at the University of Illinois, University of California, Davis, University of Virginia, and University of Florida. He practiced law with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and clerked for Judge George MacKinnon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Professor Craver is co-author of Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Advocate’s Perspective (3d ed. 2006), Legal Negotiating (2007), Employment Law Treatise (2 vol. 4th ed. 2009), Employment Law Hornbook (4th ed. 2009), Human Resources and the Law (1994), Labor Relations Law (11th ed. 2005), Employment Discrimination Law (6th ed. 2006), Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration (1988), and Labor Relations Law in the Public Sector (1991). He is the author of Can Unions Survive? (1993), Effective Legal Negotiation and Settlement (6th ed. 2009), The Intelligent Negotiator (2002), and numerous law review articles on various aspects of labor and employment law and dispute resolution.

He is a member of the American Law Institute, the National Academy of Arbitrators, the American Arbitration Association, the International Society for Labor and Social Security Law, the Labor & Employment Relations Association, the Association for Conflict Resolution, and the Labor and Employment Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections of the ABA. He is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and served as secretary to the ABA Labor and Employment Law Section in 1986-87.

He has received awards for outstanding teaching from three different law schools, including GW Law. Over the past 30 years, Professor Craver has taught negotiation skills to 80,000 lawyers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, England, Austria, Germany, the People’s Republic of China, and Turkey.

Education
B.S., M.I.L.R., Cornell University; J.D., University of Michigan

Current Semester Courses
Employment Discrimination Law; Negotiations