HNMCP: Given the range of clinic options available at Harvard Law School, why did you choose the Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) and what hopes do you have around alternative dispute resolution as a process as a result of your project? Leah Kang: Before law school I taught fifth grade in a public school […]

  by Leah Kang ’12, Teresa Napoli ’13, and Apoorva Patel ’13   This past January, Leah Kang ’12, Teresa Napoli ’13, and Apoorva Patel ’13 traveled to Chile to investigate the Ministry of Justice’s neighborhood multi-door courthouse pilot program under the supervision of Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Jeremy McClane ’02. The Unidad de Justicia

Dimitrios Efstathiou ’06 describes his position as Senior Counsel for Major League Soccer and Soccer United Marketing as one that requires him to wear multiple, sometimes competing hats. To keep those hats straight, Efstathiou turns to an old Negotiation Workshop friend—the Seven Elements worksheet. “Major League Soccer is a single-entity league—the league owns all nineteen

When Ellen Wheeler ’12 reflects on her experience with negotiation at Harvard Law School, it seems the overriding incentive for her involvement was the fear factor! “Opportunities like the Negotiation Workshop, that put you outside of your comfort zone, are so valuable in developing skills and growing as a person!” Wheeler has been involved with

Before coming to law school, I studied and worked in International Relations. I saw the world as made up of negotiations between countries of differing resources, doing what they can within the rules set by the powerful and the incumbents. Growing up, the news at home was always about how Korea gets the short end

HNMCP: I know you first heard about HNMCP through an Executive Education class you took at HLS. Remind us a bit about that story, and how you got to know Prof. Bordone? Nate Barber: I met Bob when I attended a June seminar at HLS in 2009. My union, Local 2509 of the International Association

“It is a true blessing to work in a team that is passionate about a project and share an interest in the issues.”

“I learned the importance of always putting yourself in the other person’s shoes, thinking about issues from different perspectives. This has been of tremendous help in the Army, where you have people from different backgrounds, education and skill levels, interests and religions, all working together in an intense environment.”

A few short weeks before the eyes of the world turned to Egypt and the anti-government uprisings there, HNMCP students and staff were on the ground investigating dispute resolution in the microfinance industry, a relatively small but growing area for Egypt with a huge potential to improve the economic situation for many people there.

The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) selected the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) to be the recipient of its 2010 Problem Solving in the Law School Curriculum Award at its annual awards banquet on January 11, 2011 at the New York offices of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. The clinic’s director and founder, Professor Robert C. Bordone ’97, traveled to New York to receive the award with HNMCP Associate Tobias Berkman ’10. Speakers and special guests included CPR President and CEO Kathleen Bryan, members of the CPR Board of Directors, and other leaders in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).