John Lande is the Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law.  He previously directed its LLM Program in Dispute Resolution.  He earned his J.D. from Hastings College of Law and his Ph.D in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He began practicing law and mediation in California in 1980.

The American Bar Association published his books, Lawyering with Planned Early Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money and Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment: Help Your Clients Make Good Litigation Decisions (with Michaela Keet and Heather Heavin).

He developed the Real Practice Systems (RPS) Project to help practitioners, scholars, and students better understand and improve dispute resolution practice.  The Project’s annotated bibliography includes numerous articles explaining RPS Theory.

He created the RPS Negotiation and Mediation Coach (RPS Coach) artificial intelligence (AI) tool based on RPS Theory.  This annotated bibliography provides articles discussing AI and RPS Coach.