During their last week of class, students in the Spring 2018 Negotiation Workshop had the opportunity to learn from one of the truly influential negotiators of our time: Ambassador Wendy Sherman. It was Sherman’s second time in three years visiting the Negotiation Workshop, and her talk this time around was equally packed with honesty, storytelling, […]

A team of HLS Negotiators students carried out a semester-long project with Zikaron BaSalon (Hebrew for “memories in the living room”). Zikaron BaSalon is an initiative seeking to offer intimate and engaging platforms for people to commemorate the Holocaust around the world. The students’ primary objective for the project was to understand and provide feedback

People care. People care about themselves. People care about others. People care about ideas and people care about politics. People care about their community, their country, and the world. Because we care, sometimes we work together to tackle challenges. And because we care, sometimes our differences of opinion sow division and animosity. This past spring,

HNMCP: What originally attracted you to the Negotiation Workshop, and then to the Clinic? Elaine Lin Hering: Every law student I spoke with as a 1L had raved about the Negotiation Workshop as the “one class you have to take while at HLS,” so I was thrilled to get off the waitlist and into the

It is an odd scene: thirty or so strangers gesticulating, nipping at each other, and slowly repositioning their cars along a single-lane road in exurban Missouri. We’re all here to catch our two-minute glimpse of the Great American Eclipse. Parking space is scarce, and everyone wants a spot. Still, we might, with a little creativity squeeze everyone in and preserve the view from our chosen bluff.

Ombudsman Nicholas Diehl is a three-time client of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP). His first project with us was during his time in the Corporate Ombudsman Office at the American Red Cross (ARC). His second and third project with us occurred during his time leading the Office of the Ombudsperson at the Asia Development Bank (ADB). We caught up with Nick as he transitions into his new role at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ombuds Office. We welcome him to the neighborhood and the local, Boston ADR community.

It might seem like a long way from her birth in Cuba to the halls of Harvard Law School, but ever since she read Roger Fisher’s Getting to Yes as a sophomore in college, Patricia Alejandro ’17 had her sights set on law school, as well as Fisher’s legacy, as grown and cultivated by the

We caught up with Toby Berkman ’10, a two-time HNMCP clinic student, and current dispute resolution professional, for our alumnus spotlight this year. During his years at Harvard Law School, Berkman also served as a student mediator in the Harvard Mediation Program, as a Teaching Assistant for the Negotiation Workshop, and after graduation, as the

“Lisa, you are great at arguing! You should be a lawyer.” While growing up this was a statement I frequently heard. It was true. I was excellent at arguing. I loved the thrill of the heightened emotions, the adrenaline of crafting my next point, and the satisfaction of watching my opponent squirm. What I didn’t

HNMCP: How you first heard about HNMCP and become interested in being a client? I first heard about the Clinic’s work from Heather Kulp, a family friend and clinical instructor at HNMCP. At the time, I was working in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo with Mennonite Central Committee, and part of my job