The Fight for Boston’s GLX and CLX: Stakeholder Mapping and Integrative Negotiation – Part II
by Justin Minion ’23 In Part I of this series, I have covered stakeholders battles that would likely be described as “distributive.” For instance, the stakeholder battles between the Conservative Law Foundation and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and between the MBTA and the MassDot would likely be examined through the lens of zero-sum bargaining. In…
The Fight for Boston’s GLX and CLX: Stakeholder Mapping and Integrative Negotiation — Part I
By Justin Minion ’23 On a Wednesday evening in April of 2014, Jack Wright, the interim project manager for the Green Line Extension, stood on stage at a town hall meeting and faced an angry audience of residents from Somerville, Medford, and Cambridge. Jack informed the audience that funding for the much-anticipated Community Path, which…
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…
Knowing and Navigating Decision Rules
by Lorea Mendiguren ’23 Decision rules are a crucial part of multi-party negotiation. Whether it’s a shift in policies in the workplace, the passing of legislation in Congress, or the adoption of a World Trade Organization ruling, the process for determining how a decision is made has a major impact on the way that negotiations…
Dealing in Justice: System-Level Solutions for Plea Bargaining Inefficiencies in Massachusetts Municipal and District Courts
by Stephanie Kelemen ’22 Plea bargains are like medications with bad side effects—extraordinarily painful to take, but they get the job done. In some cases, the pain outweighs the benefit of the treatment. But in the vast majority of cases—97 percent to be precise—criminal defendants take their medicine. And it hurts every single time. I…
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.
Negotiators x PATHWAYS: A Collaboration to Facilitate Negotiations Training to Students Across the World
This year, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Negotiators (a student practice organization) had the opportunity to work with the PATHWAYS Institute for Negotiation Education to offer undergraduate students on both sides of the Atlantic an experiential journey into creative negotiation, fostering connections with peers from other backgrounds, and developing critical thinking and communication skills.
This time, let’s not talk about process
In the frenzied hours since Politico published a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito striking down Roe v. Wade, commentators and writers have used strong language to emphasize the historic importance of the leak: “unprecedented,” “shocking,” “singular and egregious.” But this focus on the leak—how it happened, who did it, and what it means for the…
What does Putin Want?: Assessing Interests in the Invasion of Ukraine
by Lorea Mendiguren ’23 With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and no indication of diplomatic progress since December, two questions are at top of mind: what happens next and what can we do? To understand what is driving the Kremlin’s actions and create space for potential resolutions, we must first identify what the Kremlin actually…
Introducing the HNMCP Spring 2022 Student Blogger
We are excited to introduce Lorea Mendiguren ‘23, who will be contributing recurring columns to our blog this spring.
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…
Negotiating the Boundaries of Acceptable Pandemic Behavior: Takeaways from Conversations with First-Year Law Students Living with Roommates in 2020-2021
Living with roommates always necessitates some degree of negotiating boundaries. Even in non-pandemic times, roommates must decide norms around cleaning common spaces, communal versus individual use of food and cookware, and playing music. The COVID-19 pandemic added additional complexity, as it brought to the forefront many of the behaviors that roommates would traditionally not need…
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…