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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Clinical Fellow Heather Kulp Publishes on the Efficacy of Foreclosure Dispute Resolution
The Arkansas Law Review has published “A (Mortgage) Crisis in Communication: Foreclosure Dispute Resolution as Effective Response” (66 Ark. L. Rev. 186, 2013), co-authored by HNMCP Clinical Fellow Heather Scheiwe Kulp. And Dispute Resolution Magazine has included a summary of Heather’s article in it’s “Research Insights” section of the Summer 2013 issue (Vol. 19, Issue 4).… More
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sleeping With the (Political) Enemy
By SHEILA HEEN Published in The New York Times on November 1, 2012 YOU put a political sign in your yard to signal your views, your tribe. You want to be understood by those of like minds as well as by those whose minds you do not like. In certain climates these signs multiply nightly, on… More
Monday, October 22, 2012
Can we get a political timeout? Presidential debates should be dialogues, not football games.
October 25, 2012, Op/Ed in the Los Angeles Times By Robert C. Bordone and Heather Scheiwe Kulp Reading the newspapers recently, we’ve been struck by how similar the presidential debate commentary has been to commentary about “Monday Night Football.” After the matchups in this year’s “debate season,” political pundits criticized President Obama’s “prevent defense” and “two-yard… More
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Former U.S. trade representative shares tools for successful multi-party negotiations
Textile imports from China. Trade gaps with Japan. Pirated music in Canada. World Trade Organization technology tariffs. These are just a few of the issues Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky negotiated as United States Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001. On October 3, Barshefsky came to Harvard Law School to share her experiences with students in the… More
Monday, October 15, 2012
HNMCP project makes the NY Daily News
The Daily News interviewed Bob Bordone for an article on this semester’s project with NY Councilman Daniel Garodnick. Students will be assessing the ways in which the NYC Comptroller’s Office processes claims against the City, whether the City is spending the right amount of time litigating versus settling cases, determining whether the best processes are being… More
Thursday, October 11, 2012
HNMCP welcomes Heather Scheiwe Kulp to the position of Clinical Fellow
The Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Heather Scheiwe Kulp to the position of Clinical Fellow. Prior to joining HNMCP, Heather was a Skadden Fellow with Resolution Systems Institute/The Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago. There, she partnered with courts and government agencies to develop small claims,… More
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Bob Bordone’s moving tribute in the HLS Bulletin to Roger Fisher
by Robert C. Bordone 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… More
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Former HNMCP Clinical Fellow Matt Smith ’05 in Bloomberg Law Review
Former HNMCP Clinical Fellow Matthew Smith ’06 gives “Reflections on 2011 FCPA Enforcement Trends: The Expanding Role of Foreign Law in Defining “Foreign Officials” in Bloomberg Law Review. Read the article here.… More
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Prof. Robert Bordone grades Congress in the National Journal
“To get more perspective on this brinkmanship and the way Hill leaders may be backstabbing each other behind closed doors, National Journal spoke with Robert C. Bordone, a Harvard law professor and director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Program. He talked about the way both parties can find compromise, the Republicans’ superior negotiating skills, and what… More
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Prof. Bordone discusses Washington’s debt negotiations on WBUR’s Radio Boston.
July 26, 2011: Listen to the interview here.… More
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Prof. Bordone weighs in on brinksmanship in Washington on CNN Money
July 2011: Prof. Bordone weighs in at “CNN Money” on brinksmanship in Washington and the debt negotiations Read the full article here.… More
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Alonzo Emery ’10 helps to build a disabilities clinic at Renmin University Law School in Beijing
by Elaine McArdle At least 675 million people in the world have physical, intellectual or psychosocial disabilities, and many struggle for basic human rights including education and physical safety. In some countries, disabled children are not allowed to enroll in school or are segregated from other children. Women with disabilities are more likely to be… More
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Harvard Mediation Program Celebrates 30 Years of Students Resolving Conflicts
by Elaine McArdle After studying law and mediation in the People’s Republic of China post-college, David G. Seibel ’97 was eager to find the best training possible in alternative dispute resolution. He chose HLS in large part because of the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP), a Student Practice Organization which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary… More
Monday, March 21, 2011
Cross-school collaboration: HLS Negotiation Workshop students cross the bridge to negotiate with HBS
by Elaine McArdle On a raw and rainy winter day in Boston, in a small room at Harvard Business School, two teams of students sit facing each other across a conference table. Each team includes two HBS students playing the roles of corporate executives at major drug companies, and an HLS student acting as their… More
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Uncommon Loss, Common Bond: HLS Clinic Helps Teens Who Have Been Victimized by Acts of Violence
Mark Hutchinson’s father lost the use of his legs in a bombing in Northern Ireland. Caitlin Leavey was 10 years old when her father, a New York City fire lieutenant, died leading firefighters from Ladder 15 into the south tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. For these teens and 73 others… More
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Prof. Robert Bordone and HNMCP Associate Toby Berkman give negotiation advice to the 112th Congress in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review
To read the Op/Ed click here.… More
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Prof. Robert Bordone contributes to the conversation in this month’s Global Brief: “Winning in the New Century Means . . . “
The era in which deploying sheer military might or flexing one’s vast economic muscle might be sufficient to win (or, more modestly, end or manage) a conflict has passed. Stunning technological advances in the last decade (think: social networking sites, smart phones, and the relentless 24/7 news cycle), combined with the break-neck pace of economic,… More