Ken Fox

Kenneth (Ken) Fox teaches courses focusing on critical thinking, conflict and change management, negotiation theory and business law. Between 1996 and 2022, he served as Hamline University’s founding director of conflict studies. In 2002, he was named a Senior Fellow of the Mitchell | Hamline School of Law’s nationally ranked Dispute Resolution Institute where he continues to regularly teach and participate in scholarly activities. In 2023, he was named one of four Hamline "University Professors." He currently serves as a faculty chair in the School of Business.

Professor Fox’s academic interests relate to the many different ways that individuals, groups and societies experience, seek to understand, and work constructively through conflict. His writings focus primarily on mediation, negotiation and conflict theory. He has taught, trained, and/or consulted throughout the United States and in nineteen countries on four continents. He is a Fulbright senior specialist grant recipient through which he taught law, peace and conflict resolution studies at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia. Between 2001 and 2015, Professor Fox was also part of a series of multi-year U.S. State Department-funded civic education, civil society, and conflict transformation (peacebuilding) projects, working in-region and directly with Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian, and Lebanese educators, business and civic leaders. Since 2006, he has taught annually at the Institute of Training in Mediation and Negotiation (IFOMENE) at the Catholic University of Paris, France and has also taught on multiple occasions at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain and at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

Professor Fox received his BA in Rhetoric from the University of California and his JD (Cornelius Honor Society) from Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College. He also studied philosophy at the University of Liege, Belgium, as a Rotary undergraduate scholar. Professor Fox formerly practiced business and government law and also has a background in adult and experiential education.