We’re so grateful to Spring 2026 Dispute Systems Design Clinic student Sarasota Serulneck ’26 for creating this reel for the Harvard Law School Instagram account. Sarasota describes the work we do as a law school clinic, explains what dispute systems design is, and shares a “week in the life” of herself and team partner Natasha […]
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Josineide Gadelha Pamplona Medeiros An interview by Deanna Pantín Parrish ’16 In this interview, we celebrate the publication of Little Book of Environment and Restorative Justice: A Multidimensional Approach to Undoing Settler Harms, a powerful new contribution to conversations on restorative justice. Co-authors Nirson Medeiros da Silva Neto, Ph. D., and Josineide Gadelha Pamplona Medeiros—writing
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By Deanna Pantín Parrish, Ana Carolina Riella, Tracy Blanchard (with drafting support from the Harvard AI Sandbox) On the outskirts of Paraná, a judge walks among rows of makeshift homes, listening to families describe the uncertainty of life under constant threat of eviction. Later, he meets with landowners, hearing their frustrations over idle property and
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Tanishk Goyal, Lynn Monzer, Abby Elder Access to indigenous seeds and freedom to share, trade, and distribute not only increases agricultural and economic security—thus reducing factors that lead to conflict—but also increases social ties within and across communities. Restricting the ability of individuals and communities to save, trade, and sell indigenous seeds can reduce biodiversity,
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Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) Clinical Instructor Lisa Dicker and former HNMCP student and current consultant with the Metropolitan Group Erin Bloom have just published their contribution to the Armed Groups and International Law (AGIL) blog’s “Wagner Symposium.” AGIL promotes information sharing and community building between individuals and organizations working on issues related
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When Joseph “Joey” Ravenna ’25 first arrived at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2022, he was intrigued by the plaques he saw in Langdell Hall honoring the winners of something called the Williston Negotiation & Contract Drafting Competition. There were several plaques, each with a decade’s worth of names dating back to the
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Recently Harvard Law School published interviews with a variety of professors whose work engages international actors and issues. Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program Director Rachel Viscomi spoke about international projects undertaken in the Dispute Systems Design Clinic. This interview was originally published on the HLS website. You’ve been involved in dispute systems design in
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In the fall of 2024, Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program’s Lisa Dicker was in conversation with Mark Freeman, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions, as part of the Program on Negotiation‘s Roger Fisher Speaker Series. The conversation was titled, “Rethinking the Negotiation Paradigm: Introducing “Fast-Track” Negotiation.” The two discussed the “fast track” model
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by Deanna Pantín Parrish “Moving Day” by Nicolas Huk CC BY 2.0 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/128359034@N07/17233058042 This piece was originally published by the America Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Magazine in April 2024. In 2016, I sat in a small conference room just off judge’s chambers, wedged between the parties of an eviction dispute so contentious the bailiff
We are so excited to feature Torian Cook ’24 in our spring semester Student Spotlight. Torian has contributed to the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) community at Harvard Law School (HLS) throughout her time in here, holding multiple roles and leadership positions. Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program staffers Tracy Blanchard and Sara del Nido Budish
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