by Daniel Holman ’14 and Mark Johnson ‘14 Over spring break, HMNCP students Daniel Holman ’14 and Mark Johnson ’14, under the supervision of Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Rory Van Loo ’07, traveled to Lima, Peru, to consult on the nation’s innovative investor-State dispute management and response system. The Sistema de Coordinación y Respuesta […]

Preparation. Practice. Persistence. Those qualities make for a good firefighter, and as Nantucket Firefighter Nate Barber learned from working with HNMCP students, they also make for a good negotiator. As a member of Nantucket’s Local 2509 of the International Association of Firefighters and a former undergraduate negotiation student at Boston University, Nate knew relations between

When it comes to building a strong, efficient, multi-door, statewide justice system, the Honorable Evgeni Georgiev takes the long view. Georgiev has been working with other judges, mediators, and lawyers in the Bulgarian capitol of Sofia for four years to create a thriving and effective mediation program in the Regional Court of Sofia. With the

HNMCP: What sparked your interest in the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinic Program (HNMCP)? Apoorva Patel: When I arrived at HLS as a 1L, I knew I wanted to take advantage of the unparalleled opportunities available at the school in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution. I became involved with the Harvard Negotiation Law

ALUMNA PROFILE: Alexia Bertrand LLM ‘05 Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs and Deputy-Prime Minister of Belgium I had no clue what a negotiation class actually implied before studying at Harvard Law School. Aside from one or two MBA programs, no university in Belgium offered a negotiation class at

CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Sandra Yamate ’84 Audrey Lee ’05 The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (IILP) is a not-for-profit organization that, through educational programs, research and publications, addresses the lack of diversity and inclusion that continues to challenge the legal profession and undermine its credibility within

STUDENT PROFILE: Danielle Bart ’13 HNMCP Project: U.S. Dept. of Transportation/Volpe National Transportation System Center HNMCP: Danielle, you’re going to be a teaching assistant in the “Negotiation Workshop” this spring. You’ve taken the “Negotiation Workshop,” “Dispute Systems Design” and the “Multiparty Negotiation Workshop,” as well as the Negotiation & Mediation Clinic (HNMCP). All this indicates a

It is the spring of 1997 and I am sitting in Pound 107 while Roger Fisher ‘48, Williston Professor of Law, Emeritus, is telling a story about his serving as a weather reconnaissance pilot in World War II. As a teaching assistant for the Negotiation Workshop, I have heard the story at least a dozen

  HNMCP: How did you engage with alternative dispute resolution during your years at Harvard Law School? Rachel Viscomi: I served as a teaching assistant for the Negotiation workshop three times and for the Program of Instruction for Lawyers (PIL—now the Harvard Negotiation Institute). I was also a member of the Harvard Mediation Program and helped

  HNMCP: I remember when you called the clinic last spring. How did you hear about us? Debby Gelber: I had been in a community meeting, expressing my frustration that even though the community wanted to work on conflict resolution, there didn’t seem to the skills or time in the group to make it happen. One