Mattie Robertson

Bio

Professor Mattie Robertson is a dispute resolution professional who has mediated hundreds of cases, and is certified as a mediator, facilitator, and arbitrator. She has mentored many other professional mediators and conducted numerous conflict resolution trainings and practicums on a variety of topics. Professor Robertson spent a decade working in community mediation nonprofits after law school. At SEEDS Community Resolution Center, she oversaw a practicum which trained professional mediators, and managed the Court Mediation Program, which provided same-day mediation services to litigants in the Alameda County Superior Courts. At California Lawyers for the Arts, Professor Robertson was Program Director for the Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services (AAMS) serving the greater San Francisco Bay Area. From 2019-2025, she was Deputy Director of the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law San Francisco, additionally serving as Interim Director of the Center in 2022, where she oversaw academic classes and extracurricular programs in ADR for the law school, and developed practitioner trainings for mediators, attorneys, judges, and government organizations. Professor Robertson currently teaches the Mediation Clinic at UC Law SF supervising student working as mediators in local agencies and courts.

Professor Robertson is a member of the 2025 Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group charged with developing a certification framework for ADR providers and practitioners; current Co-Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Clinical ADR Committee; member of the Alameda County Superior Court’s ADR Administration Committee; The Mediation Society; Chabot College’s Administration of Justice Department’s Advisory Board; former member of the Bay Area Coalition for Community Mediation (BACCM); and former Chair of the Alameda County Bar Association’s ADR Executive Committee. She also serves as a mediator for the ADR Program at the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Professor Robertson is a graduate of UC Law San Francisco, beginning her mediation career in the school’s Mediation Clinic, and is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

Professor Robertson is a proud tribal member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and currently lives in Oakland with her family.

Education

• San Francisco State University
  B.A., International Relations 2006

• UC Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings)
  J.D., Law 2010