Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinic

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The Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) provides students with practical, real-world experience in the fields of negotiation, dispute resolution, and conflict management. Students in the program are paired with outside organizations, institutions, or individuals to work on substantive and relevant projects that directly apply their negotiation skills to real problems. With appropriate faculty supervision, the Program endeavors to train a new generation of lawyers with the skills needed to help clients manage disputes efficiently and creatively. Through this work, students gain a broader understanding of the contexts in which lawyers must apply critical negotiation skills both to manage conflict and to design more effective processes for helping clients resolve disputes. In addition, students develop a deeper understanding of negotiation theory. Clinical projects can involve helping a client prepare for an upcoming negotiation, designing and delivering a negotiation curriculum for a client, or writing a research paper with recommendations for constructing an institutional dispute resolution mechanism.

Clinical and Course Information

Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinic
Fall or Spring clinical
Open to 2L, 3L students
LLM students by permission
Pre-requisite: Negotiation Workshop
Co-requisite: Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Workshop (offered in Fall 2012) or Dispute Systems Design (offered in Spring 2013)

Contact

Austin Hall 102
Harvard Law School
(617) 496-7109