Harvard Negotiation Law Review to hold symposium about dispute resolution
March 6, 2008
On March 7-8, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review will host a symposium entitled “Dispute Systems Design Across Contexts and Continents.” Organizers say they hope the symposium will give scholars, lawyers, and consultants the tools they need to approach complex problems in a systematic and holistic way.
"This weekend's conference is a rare opportunity to convene in one room the nation’s leading dispute resolution academics and the most innovative designers of dispute resolution systems in the private, public, and international sectors," said HLS Assistant Clinical Professor Robert Bordone '97, the faculty sponsor of the symposium. "The challenge is to share best practices for the design of conflict resolution systems and to identify promising domains in need of further research. We hope this will be the beginning of a productive dialogue between the world of practice and those of us who study conflict management in the academy."
Symposium attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a series of panel discussions. Panel topics include conflict resolution for global institutions, countries building and drafting a new constitution, and crisis situations, among others.
Experts from the field of negotiation will participate in the discussions, including Harvard Law School Professors Noah Feldman, who was part of the team that drafted the Iraqi constitution, Robert Mnookin LL.B. '68, chair of the Program on Negotiation, Assistant Professors Rachel Brewster, Gabriella Blum LL.M '01, S.J.D. '03, and Lecturer Florrie Darwin '84.
Now in its 11th year, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review offers scholarship about negotiation as it relates to law and legal institutions. It is published twice a year.
For more information, or to register for the symposium, click here.