Program on Negotiation

Alexandra Vacroux, Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics, (on leave from Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for 2024-2025), returns…

Live at HLS: Jared Curhan of MIT will share his fascinating findings from a competition between AI bots (with each other), and between AI bots…

Professor Amy J. Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law and Co-director of Translational Data Analytics Institute Responsible Data Science CoP at Moritz…

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents a virtual seminar with Ronald Niezen, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of…

Join a Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution virtual seminar with Matthew Waldman. Waldman will discuss essential changes to peacemaking based…

Speaker Diana Chigas, Professor of the Practice in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Co-Director, Corruption, Justice & Legitimacy Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University will…

Author Joshua N. Weiss, introduces an evidence-based model for when negotiations stall or fail from his book Getting Back to the Table. The book explores…

Max Bazerman’s talk will offer new ways of thinking about the importance of the unique context of any negotiation. He will share details from his…

PON speaker Max Bevilacqua, Managing Director at Mindful Negotiating, will share his experiences teaching in a medium-security Men’s prison in Massachusetts through Tufts University’s Prison…

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents a virtual seminar with Dr. Houda Abadi, Eldridge Adolfo, Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, and…

Robert Mnookin has had a force multiplier effect in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution.

Two Harvard Law experts explain why mediation skills are increasingly valuable for lawyers.

At an event hosted by the Program on Negotiation, author Claire Fowler looks at new ways to resolve disagreements in the workplace.

On Earth Day, we highlight some of the work being done by Harvard Law students, scholars, clinics, and programs to address some our most pressing environmental issues.

As the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres was in charge of the 2015 climate talks in Paris. In a conscious departure from earlier conferences, she declared that any agreement should be unanimous, rather than merely a consensus.

Sheila Heen ’93, negotiation expert and trainer, has been appointed professor of practice at Harvard Law School, effective July 1, 2021. She has been a lecturer on law at HLS since 1995.

Deftly adapting to a shift in both venue and format, and applying skills from their J-Term negotiation workshop, Harvard Law 1L students Adira E. Levine, Noopur Sen, and Adam J. Toobin were able to negotiate their way to victory in The Negotiation Challenge—an international contest drawing competitors from around the world.

With the advent of sweeping disaster comes the complicated question of how properly to compensate victims. The Program on Negotiation at HLS convenes an expert panel on dispute resolution in the wake of mass disasters.

Drawing from a wide variety of prosecutorial experiences, Assistant U.S. Attorney Varghese shared insights and anecdotes with the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program's Negotiation Workshop about what it is like to negotiate in the real world.

Rachel A. Viscomi ’01 has been appointed assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and named director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program. She was formerly a lecturer on law at HLS and the acting director of HNMCP.

Frank E.A. Sander ’52, a pioneer in the field of alternative dispute resolution and a longtime Harvard Law professor, died Feb. 25, 2018. He was 90.