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Clinical Fellow Position Open for Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program
TITLE: Clinical Fellow DEPARTMENT Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP)Harvard Law School SUMMARY This exempt position reports to the Assistant Director. Will work closely with HNMCP leadership and staff to support expansion of the school’s innovative program in negotiation, mediation, facilitation, and dispute systems design. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS* Will provide regular oversight, mentorship, and coaching…
Student Spotlight Spring 2022: Chinyere Amanze
Our Spring 2022 Student Spotlight is Chinyere Amanze ’22. During her time at Harvard Law School, Chinyere immersed herself in the work of alternative dispute resolution and conflict management, through the “Negotiation Workshop,” the “Advanced Negotiation: Multiparty Negotiations, Group Decision-Making, and Teams” workshop, and the “Dispute Systems Design for Justice” seminar. Additionally, she was the…
ADR & Racial Equity Hackathon
Friday, June 24, 2022 – 10am EST *Virtual* Join us for a day-long, team-based sprint to build solutions to address power imbalances and racial inequity in alternative dispute resolution! Register here More information: What is a hackathon? A hackathon brings people together to work in teams to build innovative solutions to concrete problems over…
Designing Solutions to the Eviction Crisis: Best Practices
This fall, HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Deanna Pantín Parrish was an invited speaker at the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop. This event has just been posted to Vimeo and we’re pleased to share it here.
Mt. Washington Commission embraces Harvard report
Proud to share this story about a fall clinic project, with permission from The Berlin Sun and author Edith Tucker. We get pretty fired up helping our clients find new ways through disputes and are grateful for the work the Mt. Washington Commission is doing in New Hampshire! “Mt. Washington Commission embraces Harvard report”…
Rethinking Systems Design for Racial Justice
The Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program, in partnership with the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, The Ohio State University’s Divided Community Project, and Stanford Law School’s Gould Center for Conflict Resolution, is pleased to invite you to join an interactive symposium series titled “Rethinking Systems Design for Racial Justice & Equity.” This three part-series will…
HNMCP publishes a second guide in the “From the Field” series
HNMCP is excited to launch the second publication in our “From the Field” guide series: “From the Field: A Restorative Justice Guide.” The Restorative Justice Guide, written by Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Deanna Pantín Parrish, brings together learnings and insights that have emerged from our projects in the Dispute Systems Design Clinic, as well…
HNMCP Launching “From the Field” Guides Based on Learnings Over 15 Years of Dispute Resolution Projects
We are thrilled to launch “From the Field,” a new set of freely accessible, public guides. This guide series seeks to bring together learnings and insights from HNMCP’s clinical projects since its founding in 2006. The content of each of these guides reflects themes that have recurred across projects in a particular arena of dispute…
HNMCP and the American Bar Association Jointly Release Report on Best Practices for Eviction Diversion: “Designing for Housing Stability”
A major new report jointly released today by the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program and the American Bar Association identifies a list of key considerations for designing court-based and court-adjacent eviction prevention and/or diversion programs. The report, Designing for Housing Stability: Best Practices for Court-Based and Court-Adjacent Eviction Prevention and/or Diversion Programs, was written…
Client Spotlight – Jane Juliano and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel
Over the past 15 years, the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) has worked with over a hundred client organizations. Within this group, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) stands out as one of our longest continuous partnerships, with half a dozen projects spanning from spring 2012 through spring 2020.* In this client…
A Year of Pandemic Mediation—Online Lessons Learned at the Harvard Mediation Program
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…
Adapting to the Virtual World: Teaching Negotiation to High School Students Online
By Kate Strickland ’23, Colin Mark ’22, Lorea Mendiguren ’23, and Anselmo Cassiano In a year that forced the world online, a team from the student practice organization Harvard Law School Negotiators worked throughout the year to transform an existing project to teach high school students the principles of negotiation and active listening into a virtual learning format. For multiple years, the HLS Negotiators has had a recurring relationship…
Student Spotlight: Patrick Maxwell ʼ21
Patrick Maxwell is a dual-degree candidate for his JD at Harvard Law School and his MA in Law and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. We first met Patrick as a client in the spring of 2016 when we did a project in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the Mennonite Central Committee. Two-and-a-half years later, we welcomed Patrick as…
Dispute Systems Design Info Session for HLS Students
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…
Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program Releases Report on a New Safety Response System for the City of Boston
The Boston Police Department routinely responds to calls for service involving mental health, homelessness, substance use, traffic incidents, and nonviolent neighborhood or domestic disputes. In the face of nationwide racial disparities in public safety practices, many have advocated for the ability to seek help in addressing these issues without relying entirely on the police. In June…
Book Review: America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights
Clinical Instructor Deanna Parrish ’16 reviews America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights by Bertram Levine and Grande Lum, calling it both “personal—and tragically relevant.” “. . . . CRS works behind the scenes to provide free, impartial, and confidential conciliation and mediation services to communities, with the intention of “keeping the peace”…