Harvard Law
Can Congressional Gridlock Be Resolved Through Mediation?
September 26, 2013
The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution announced the winner of the 2013 Boskey Dispute Resolution Essay competition. Sarah Gonski, a Harvard Law student, won the competition with her essay entitled “Easing Gridlock in the United States Congress Through Mediation: Letting Our Cities and States Teach Us Lessons On Getting Along.” The essay suggests that Congressional gridlock can be reduced by following the lead of several states and local governments by using mediators...
September 26, 2013
The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution announced the winner of the 2013 Boskey Dispute Resolution Essay competition. Sarah Gonski, a Harvard Law student, won the competition with her essay entitled “Easing Gridlock in the United States Congress Through Mediation: Letting Our Cities and States Teach Us Lessons On Getting Along.” The essay suggests that Congressional gridlock can be reduced by following the lead of several states and local governments by using mediators...
The “MIT School of Law” – Keynote Presentation @Stanford CodeX FutureLaw Conference
May 31, 2013
Dan Katz has a proposal for an MIT School of Law grounded in computational legal studies. How many professors at Yale or Harvard Law, he asks, "seriously know anything about legal information engineering, not normative argumentation or policy making." What better place to reimagine law in computational terms than MIT? Of course, MIT might simply start a Department of Legal Engineering. Or LE, as it would presumably be known among the locals.
May 31, 2013
Dan Katz has a proposal for an MIT School of Law grounded in computational legal studies. How many professors at Yale or Harvard Law, he asks, "seriously know anything about legal information engineering, not normative argumentation or policy making." What better place to reimagine law in computational terms than MIT? Of course, MIT might simply start a Department of Legal Engineering. Or LE, as it would presumably be known among the locals.
Roger Fisher, Dean of Dispute Resolution, 1922-2012
April 13, 2013
Roger Fisher, Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on August 25, 2012, at the age of 90. Founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project and later the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, co-author of the seminal and perennially bestselling Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, pioneer in teaching negotiation, and inveterate, self-starting peacemaking interventionist, Fisher had an extraordinary impact...
April 13, 2013
Roger Fisher, Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on August 25, 2012, at the age of 90. Founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project and later the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, co-author of the seminal and perennially bestselling Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, pioneer in teaching negotiation, and inveterate, self-starting peacemaking interventionist, Fisher had an extraordinary impact...
