Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinic

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.

Students who have taken the basic Negotiation Workshop course in either the winter or spring terms are eligible to participate in the clinical. Students concurrently enrolled in the workshop are not be eligible for the program until they have completed the course. 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 Information

Fall or Spring clinical
Open to 2L, 3L students
LLM students by permission
Pre-Requisites: Negotiation Workshop

Clinical Courses

Dispute Systems Design: Seminar
Instructors: Robert Bordone
Fall seminar; Fall clinical

Negotiation and Mediation: Clinical Workshop
Instructors: Robert Bordone and Stephan Sonnenberg
Spring class; Spring clinical

Contact

Pound Hall 513
Harvard Law School
(617) 496-7109
hnmcp@law.harvard.edu
www.law.harvard.edu/hnmcp