Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program

By Matilda Jansen Brolin, LLM ’16—From the application process to what I do at present, I’ve put the pedagogical skills in alternative dispute resolution—developed at HLS through the Negotiation Workshop, courses in mediation and Dispute Systems Design, and in the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program and the Harvard Mediation Program—into practice.

From Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—As traditional forms of legal education continue to account for roughly 90–95% of a typical law student’s credit load, it remains worth clarifying the role that clinics can play within a legal education and how the law school can use them to accomplish more ambitious goals in its third century.

From Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—Aside from the failed coup d’état in 1981, this represents Spain’s most profound constitutional crisis since democracy was restored in 1978, and remains a hot debate in Catalonia.

From Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—It is an odd scene: thirty or so strangers gesticulating, nipping at each other, and slowly repositioning their cars along a single-lane road in exurban Missouri. We’re all here to catch our two-minute glimpse of the Great American Eclipse.

From Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—Their work around dialogue and refugee resettlement in Maine this Spring drew heavily upon pedagogical theory in negotiation and facilitation they’d learned in the classroom.

From Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—The wrongness of white supremacist ideology is certainly not subject to discussion, so what would dialogue even entail? The violent rally and the beliefs expressed by its participants call for simple condemnation.

From Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—Cathy will supervise clinical students in the Harvard Mediation Program and work with HMP’s mediators, court liaisons and staff to support continued excellence in the mediation services HMP provides to the community.

From the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—Much ink has been spent lamenting President Trump’s decision to withdraw from The Paris Agreement. Political leaders, scientists, environmental policy experts, and even U.S. companies have condemned Trump’s move.

From the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—We caught up with Toby Berkman ’10, a two-time HNMCP clinic student, and current dispute resolution professional, for our alumnus spotlight this year.

From the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—This year’s art contest at the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program brought in over fifty submissions from Harvard Law School, the greater Boston area, and around the world.

From the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program—Six clinical projects allowed us to: strategize with two very different Ombud’s offices to help them improve their internal dispute resolution services; work with a local housing co-operative on communications and decision-making skills around large communal projects.

From Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program— It might seem like a long way from her birth in Cuba to the halls of Harvard Law School, but ever since she read Roger Fisher’s Getting to Yes as a sophomore in college, Patricia Alejandro ’17 had her sights set on law school.

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs extends a warm welcome to Daneiris Heredia-Perez, Christina Haines, Alyssa Chan, and Jordana Arias.

Via Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program “U.S. Defense Taskforce,” a newly released negotiation simulation from the Harvard Negotiation and…

Via HLS News Credit: Tom Fitzsimmons
Lecturer on Law Rachel Viscomi ’01 (left) moderated the day’s first panel, “Dispute Systems Design: Expanding Horizons.”…

Via Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program “Lisa, you are great at arguing! You should be a lawyer.” While growing up this was a…

Via Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program On November 5th, 2016, we will host a gala event to mark the 10th anniversary of the…

Via Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program Stephan Sonnenberg ’06 In the spring of 2016 HNMCP engaged with the newly forming Jigme Singye Wangchuck School…

Via HLS News Exploring the possibilities of civil dialogue Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) Director and Clinical Professor Robert Bordone and HNMCP Assistant…

Via HLS News This past Spring, the HLS 2016 Class Marshals hosted their annual “Last Lecture” Series, presented every year by selected Harvard Law…

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs extends heartfelt congratulations to Anna Crowe (International Human Rights Clinic) on her new position as Clinical Instructor, Sara del Nido…