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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
In Memoriam: Frank Sander, 1927-2018
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…
New Clinic Project with the White House, Dept of Education and Dept of Labor
Today, at the first-ever United State of Women Summit, the Obama administration, private-sector companies, foundations and organizations announced $50 million in commitments, along with new policies, tools and partnerships that will continue to expand opportunity for women and girls. These announcements include a pledge by more than two dozen leading companies to take actions to…
Meeting at Cops’ Corner
In just one decade, Everett, Massachusetts, once a predominantly white city, has become the most racially and ethnically diverse in the commonwealth. Building communication between police officers and local youth is a priority for Chief of the Everett Police Department Steven A. Mazzie, who is white, as are 86 percent of his officers. Last fall…
Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinic Students Help Local Somali Youth Manage Conflict
Abdulkadir Hussein, founder of African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE) came to the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) with a problem. Hussein had noticed an emerging issue in the Boston East African community—the growing divide between Somali-born parents and their American-raised children. For Somali parents, the stress of raising…
HNMCP project makes the NY Daily News
The Daily News interviewed Bob Bordone for an article on this semester’s project with NY Councilman Daniel Garodnick. Students will be assessing the ways in which the NYC Comptroller’s Office processes claims against the City, whether the City is spending the right amount of time litigating versus settling cases, determining whether the best processes are being…
Roger Fisher (1922-2012)
“Peace is not a piece of paper, but a way of dealing with conflict when it arises.” ~Roger Fisher “Today we mourn the loss of Professor Roger Fisher, the founder of the Program on Negotiation, who was inspiration for the work of our field, and for me personally in founding HNMCP. Roger was a…
An Appealing Design: Students devise an appeals process for the new Consumer Watchdog Agency
Last year, after Rory Van Loo ’07 left the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau implementation team to become a lecturer on law and assistant director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program, he asked his former colleagues how HLS students might assist the new agency. It had been created by Congress in 2010 largely thanks…
HNMCP students sow seeds of peace in the Middle East
This post originally appeared on Harvard Law School’s Clinical Blog. Tucked away in an idyllic corner of Maine is a summer camp that features many traditional American activities: singing around bonfires, flag raising ceremonies, Color Wars, and chilly dips in the lake. Less ordinary, however, are the daily dialogue sessions, where Israeli and Palestinian campers…
HNMCP Trains Israeli and Palestinian Youth
JERUSALEM |In partnership with the Harvard University Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program at Harvard Law School, Seeds of Peace offered 32 of its Palestinian and Israeli Peer Leaders (aged 16-17) a three-day training in basic mediation and negotiation. “It was a fascinating opportunity to learn how to overcome obstacles in the negotiation process and how…
Harvard Law Students visit Unity Neighborhood Justice Program in Chile
The fall 2011 semester project with the Ministry of Justice in Chile made news in Santiago when three students went down to do fieldwork. This past January, HNMCP students Leah Kang ’12, Teresa Napoli ’13, and Apoorva Patel ’13 traveled to Chile to investigate the Ministry of Justice’s neighborhood multi-door courthouse pilot program under the…
Students travel to Washington to present plan to close Guantanamo
This story first appeared on Harvard Law Today. A team of negotiators presented a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a goal President Obama outlined at the beginning of his presidency. But just as the president has faced opposition, so too did the members of this team. When one of them recommended…