Alternative Dispute Resolution

From Courtrooms to Common Ground: Training Brazilian Judges to Mediate Land Conflicts

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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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Strengthening Environmental Peacebuilding Design in Somalia

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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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Students revive historic competition honoring renowned contracts professor

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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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Faculty Snapshot: Rachel Viscomi

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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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‘It’s important to sing, even when it rains’

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First published in Harvard Law Today There were just four weeks until Harvard Law School’s commencement ceremony, and Salomé Van Bunnen LL.M. ’24 was more than 7,000 miles away—in East Africa. But far from regretting missing a few of her final days in Cambridge, Salomé was in Tanzania celebrating putting into practice a semester of

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Evictions can kill: how US communities are trying to break the cycle of violence

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Image: Nito. Adobe Stock Education License. In a typical year, American landlords file 3.6m eviction cases. The process has been criticized as an “expedited, state sanctioned collection process for landlords.” Systemic injustices require systemic solutions. Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program Clinical Instructor Deanna Pantin Parrish co-authored an article on how alternative dispute resolution practices

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Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic contributes to the development of novel mediation approach in Brazil

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A project by Harvard Law School’s Dispute Systems Design, or DSD, Clinic is helping address a pressing justice issue in Brazil — the forced removal of vulnerable communities from occupied land. This October, students and instructors from the Dispute Systems Design Clinic travelled to Paraná, Brazil to meet their client, the Brazilian National Council of Justice.

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HNMCP Attends AALS Dispute Resolution Works in Progress Conference

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Last weekend, several faculty and staff from the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program traveled down to New Haven, CT for the annual AALS ADR Works-in-Progress Conference. The conference was co-sponsored by the Quinnipiac University School of Law’s Center for Dispute Resolution and Yale Law School’s Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.

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Law school clinics offers first-hand experience

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Students from the Harvard Law School Dispute Systems Design Clinic will conduct an assessment of the concerns and experiences that are driving these strong emotions, what approaches people take to raising their concerns with New Hampshire Judicial Court staff, and how these encounters are currently handled by both court users and court staff.

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Spring 2023 Student Spotlight: Valerie Gutmann ’23 & Austin Riddick ’23

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Valerie and Austin agreed to interview each other about their time at Harvard Law School—how they became interested in dispute resolution, why they think the field is vital to our culture and the legal system today, their passion for helping those in conflict find agency and ownership in problem-solving, the specific ways they found to follow their passions in the work, and how they found community in the field.

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