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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”…
Introducing our New Blog Contributors
We are excited to introduce two student writers who will be contributing recurring columns to our blog this spring. Zekariah McNeal ʼ21 and Patrick Maxwell ʼ21 are former students in the Dispute Systems Design Clinic (and Patrick is currently enrolled again for an Advanced Clinical). In their posts, Zekariah will discuss negotiation, restorative justice, and other dispute resolution processes, particularly focusing on the role of identity; and…
HLS Alternative Dispute Resolution Career Panel: Fall 2020
On Thursday, November 5, the Harvard Mediation Program, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP), and the HLS Negotiators co-sponsored a panel discussion and networking event for HLS students interested in careers in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, restorative justice, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Harvard Mediation Program Rises to the Moment
By Ethan Lowens and Cathy Mondell The Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) rose to a new challenge this fall: with Harvard Law School classes meeting virtually and no students on campus, HMP was faced with the question of how to make student mediators available from their homes across the globe to the Boston-area court systems HMP has been working with for decades. And, because access to those courthouses was…
Alumni Spotlight: Corey Linehan
Corey Linehan is a two-time Dispute Systems Design Clinic alumnus who graduated from Harvard Law School in 2018. Nowadays, Corey is a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Christopher A. Coons, where his work focuses on health and education policy, as well as an adjunct professor in the Master of Leadership & Negotiation…
Student Spotlight: Obianuju Enworom
Obianuju Enworom is a New Jersey native and a 3L at Harvard Law School (HLS). Before coming to HLS, she received a B.A. in Economics & Political Science from Columbia University. Outside of school she is the Associate Editor of Rouge 18, a beauty blog. Though we are missing Obianuju’s presence on campus this fall…
Three Ways of Looking at Dispute Resolution
Former HNMCP Clinical Instructor and Harvard Law School Lecturer on Law Andrew Mamo ’14 has published “Ways of Looking at Dispute Resolution” in the Wake Forest Law Review.
On the Road – HNMCP Faculty in 2020
Sara del Nido Budish participated as a panelist on the “Leading Negotiations” panel of the 29th annual Dynamic Women in Business Conference, hosted by the Women’s Student Association at Harvard Business School on February 22, 2020. Sara and three additional panelists discussed challenges to effectively negotiating at work, shared personal stories of negotiations both in and outside of the office, and offered strategies to…
Covid-19 and Conflicts: The Health of Peace Processes During a Pandemic
HNMCP alum Lisa Dicker ’17 and HLS alum Danae Askar ’16, both of whom have worked in peace negotiation and post-conflict transitional contexts, have co-authored “Covid-19 and Conflicts: The Health of Peace Processes During a Pandemic” in the Harvard Negotiation Law Journal. The article provides a preliminary analysis of the impacts of the pandemic on…
This Moment
Our hearts are heavy with the death of even more people of color murdered at the hands of police. As we see the pain, exhaustion, and outrage across the country, we come back to some of our core values: to courageously face stories and narratives that are hard for us to hear; to seek growth…
Student Spotlight: Sydnee Robinson ’20
We’re so pleased to feature Sydnee Robinson ʼ20 as our Student Spotlight this spring. Sydnee was a student in the Dispute Systems Design Clinic this spring semester and served on the board of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review as Symposium Chair and as Managing Editor. Sydnee’s fierce and compassionate pursuit of justice benefits all who cross her path. She is a highly sought-after…
U.S. News & World Report Rankings
We here at the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program were thrilled this past March to hear the news that Harvard Law School ranked #1 in Dispute Resolution Programs in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. It is an honor and a privilege to be part of the dispute resolution team at Harvard Law…
Brazil Moot
For the second year in a row, this past spring a team of Harvard Law School students— comprised of Brayden Koslowsky and Devony Schmidt ‘19, Caitlin Hoeberlein 20, and Peter Daniels ‘21—won recognition as the best negotiating team at the CPR International Mediation Competition.
From the Boston Marathon to a deadly meningitis outbreak, a prosecutor shares negotiation lessons
This spring, George Varghese, an assistant U.S. Attorney based in Boston, delivered a guest lecture to the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program‘s (HNMCP) Spring 2019 Negotiation Workshop, a limited-enrollment course that combines theory and practice with the aim of improving both the participants’ understanding of negotiation and their effectiveness as negotiators.