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Principled Negotiations and Complex Peace Processes: Reflections on connecting theory to practice—Part II
In the first installment of our reflection on the pedagogy of principled negotiation, we began our consideration of the practicalities of applying theories of interest-based negotiation to peacebuilding. We turn now to the concept of negotiation process.
Principled Negotiations and Complex Peace Processes: Reflections on Connecting Theory to Practice: Part I
This is the fourth installment of a blog series called From the Field. In this series we spotlight stories and insights from former students, friends, and colleagues who are working in the field of dispute resolution. by Lisa Dicker ’17 and C. Danae Paterson ’16 “These methods may be fine in the classroom and…
Family Law Mediation with Pro Se Parties: Traps for the Unwary
by Alison Silber, Esq. Family law practitioners and litigants alike frequently criticize the court system for its capacity to foment and protract conflict, reinforce the oppositional relationship between parties, and necessitate cumbersome and expensive discovery. Mediation is often praised as the reasonable, intelligent alternative to family law litigation, and my own practice bears this out.…
Applying Negotiation Skills in the Foreign Service
This is the third blog is a new series called “From the Field”. In this series we spotlight stories and insights from former students, friends, and colleagues who are working in the field of dispute resolution. by Matilda Jansen Brolin LLM ’16 A year after graduating from Harvard Law School (HLS) with an LL.M…
Fallacies Of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #5
This is the final post in a five-part blog series by HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Heather Scheiwe Kulp on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies…
Fallacies of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #4
This is the fourth in a five-part blog series by HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Heather Scheiwe Kulp on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding…
Fallacies of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #3
This is the third in a five-part blog series on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding with more positive advice. Comments are welcomed! By Heather Scheiwe Kulp …
Fallacies of ADR Career Advice: Fallacy #2
This is the second in a five-part blog series by HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Heather Scheiwe Kulp on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding…
Fallacies Underlying Common ADR Career Advice Given to Young Professionals
This is the first in a five-part blog series on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding with more positive advice. Comments are welcomed!
Reimagining Adjudication: ADR as a Laboratory
Ferguson. Staten Island. Cleveland. A national outcry against police brutality. A resounding call that Black Lives Matter. Not a moment, but a movement, to question the legal system: its actors, its tools, and its available remedies. Responding to this cry for systemic revision, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and Yale Law School Dean Robert…
A Protest of Your Own Convictions
The Garner and Brown grand jury decisions heralded into the spotlight the language of #BlackLivesMatter, #HandsUpDontShoot and #ICantBreathe. Emblazed on posters, twitter, and many of our psyches, these were not responses to a unique social and political moment, but rather the headlines of a movement generations in the making. As Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) professionals,…