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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.
Spring 2019 Student Spotlight: Margaret Huang
Margaret Huang ’19 came to law school looking for tools for change. Inspired by seminal Supreme Court cases like Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education, Huang set her sights on finding her particular path into change agency. At the time, law school seemed like the best way for her to acquire the…
JET-Powered Learning: New 1L January Experiential Term courses focus on skills-building, collaboration and self-reflection
First published in Harvard Law Today “Imagine that you’ve come to law school knowing that you want to be a great public interest lawyer or an inventive entrepreneur or a savvy trial lawyer. Or you want to focus consciously on what it takes to be an effective public- or private-sector leader. Or perhaps you don’t…
Redressing Harm through Restorative Justice
This article about the recent HNLR Annual Symposium, sponsored by the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program, was published in Harvard Law Today, written by Victoriya Levina and Basil Williams Sydnee Robinson, a 2L at Harvard Law School and chair of the 2019 Harvard Negotiation Law Review symposium, and Shannon Schmidt, a Harvard Divinity School…
Rachel Viscomi named new Director of HNMCP
We are so excited to announce that Rachel A. Viscomi ’01 has been named as the Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) and appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. “I am honored to join such a distinguished and inspiring faculty and grateful to work alongside such talented staff, students, and…
Emerging Technology and Dispute Resolution: What Does the Future Hold?
Lunchtime Panel Discussion: Emerging Technology and Dispute Resolution: What Does the Future Hold? Tuesday, April 12, noon, Harvard Law School, Pound Hall 100