Mediation

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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Harvard Mediation Program: Experience of a lifetime

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By Bertha Aniagyei LL.M. ’24 Originally published on the website for the Office of Clinical & Pro Bono Programs As a person who has worked for more than a decade in the traditional adjudicatory system and witnessed its high and low points, I was convinced that alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, particularly mediation, offered a better

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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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A Year of Pandemic Mediation—Online Lessons Learned at the Harvard Mediation Program

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By Peter Daniels ʼ21    As the world has adjusted to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) has changed along with it. Boston-area courts have shifted to remote hearings for many case types, pushing mediation to be remote as well. HMP has been in the fortunate position to help lead

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Dispute Systems Design Info Session for HLS Students

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This information session brought together current Dispute Systems Design Clinic students—to talk about the skills they’ve harvested from working with real-world clients through the clinic—as well as alums, who reflect on how their clinic experience helped them discern and inform their professional path and work in the world. This info session was held for Harvard

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In Memoriam: Frank Sander, 1927-2018

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We are saddened to learn of the passing of one of the great teachers and scholars in the field of dispute resolution, Frank E. A. Sander, A.B. LL.B, Bussey Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. Sander is widely credited with being one of the founders of our field of alternative dispute resolution due the

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