Roger Fisher
This year’s Harvard Negotiation Law Review’s Annual Symposium is entitled “Ideas and Impact: Roger Fisher’s Legacy.”
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program, the Program on Negotiation, CMI International Group, and Milbank, the Symposium will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2013, at the Harvard Law School in Austin North from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The event will honor the contributions of Roger D. Fisher, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, to the fields of alternative dispute resolution and legal education and explore his impact on negotiation theory, pedagogy, and practice.
The Symposium will feature speakers from across the country who will discuss Professor Fisher’s career and the impact of his work at Harvard Law School, throughout the country, and around the world. Through the perspective of Professor Fisher’s work, participants will explore current trends and opportunities for scholars and practitioners in the ADR field.
The Symposium is free, though registration is highly recommended. It will take place in Austin Hall North on the Harvard Law School campus.
Symposium Program
9:00am Opening Remarks
9:15am Panel 1: The Little-Known Professor Fisher: Path to a Life in
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Amy Cohen, Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Andrea Schneider, Professor of Law and Director, Dispute Resolution Program, Marquette University Law School
Daniel L. Shapiro, Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program and Assistant Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
William L. Ury, Senior Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project
Moderator: Michael Wheeler HBS ’52, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
11:00am Panel 2: The Impact of Roger Fisher’s Work at Home
Jared R. Curhan, Sloan Distinguished Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management
David Hoffman, John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School and Founder, Boston Law Collaborative, LLC
Grande Lum, Director of Community Relations Services, U.S. Department of Justice
Andrew Tulumello, Co-Partner-in-Charge, Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher
Moderator: Michael Moffitt, Philip H. Knight Dean and Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law
12:30pm Lunch and special video compilation
R. Lisle Baker, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School
1:30pm Panel 3: The Impact of Roger Fisher’s Work Abroad
Diana Chigas, Professor of Practice of International Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, The Fletcher School at Tufts University and Director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice Project at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Alain Lempereur, Alan B. Slifka Chair Professor, Brandeis University and Director of the Graduate Program in Coexistence and Conflict and Program Director of the Masters program in Coexistence and Conflict, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
Jamil Mahuad, Former President, Ecuador and Co-Founder and Senior Adviser of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, Harvard Law School
Bruce Patton, Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project and Co-Founder, Vantage Partners
Moderator: Eileen F. Babbitt, Professor of the Practice of International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, and Co-Director of the Program on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
3:15pm Panel 4: The Future of Dispute Resolution
Sheila Heen, Founder, Triad Consulting Group and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, A.B. Chettle Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure at Georgetown University Law Center and Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Robert Mnookin, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Director, Harvard Negotiation Research Project, and Chair, Program on Negotiation
Robert Ricigliano, Director of the Institute of World Affairs, Center for International Education and Adjunct Professor, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Moderator: Robert C. Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Director, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program
Co-Sponsored by CM Partners, CMI International Group, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, the Harvard Law School Milbank Tweed Fund, the Program on Negotiation, and Triad Consulting Group