alternative dispute resolution

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) (also known as external dispute resolution in some countries, such as Australia[1]) includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. It is a collective term for the ways that parties can settle disputes, with (or without) the help of a third party.

The following items are tagged alternative dispute resolution.

Mediation Curriculum: Trends and Variations

Posted by & filed under Daily, Mediation, Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (Pedagogy @ PON).

NP@PON collected many types of curriculum materials from teachers and trainers who attended the 2009 Mediation Pedagogy Conference.  We received general materials about classes on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as well as highly specific and idiosyncratic units like Conflict Resolution through Literature: Romeo and Juliet and a negotiating training package for female managers from the

A Discussion with Frank Sander about the Multi-Door Courthouse

Posted by & filed under Daily, International Negotiation.

As a collaboration between UST School of Law and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the following is the transcript of a conversation between the creator of the multi-door courthouse, Harvard Law Professor Frank E.A. Sander, and the executive director and founder of the University of St. Thomas (UST) International ADR [Alternative Dispute

Brian Mandell

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Brian S. Mandell is Director of the Kennedy School Negotiation Project, and Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is Chair of the School’s Wexner-Israel Fellowship Program. His current teaching and research addresses the theory and practice of negotiation and leadership, emphasizing third party facilitation and resolving organizational and policy disputes.

Melissa Manwaring

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Melissa Manwaring is a lecturer in the Management Division at Babson College, where she has taught negotiation in the graduate program since 2002 and co-developed the inaugural Fast Track MBA (hybrid online / face-to-face) negotiation course in 2008. She also serves as Babson’s Director of Institutional Assessment, overseeing the campus-wide assurance of learning process.

Frank Sander

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Frank E. A. Sander, A.B., LL.B., Bussey Professor of Law, Emeritus. Frank E. A. Sander came to the Harvard Law School faculty in1959 after clerking with Justice Frankfurter and several years of practice, including two years with the Tax Division, Department of Justice. He has taught an overview course in Alternative Dispute Resolution as well as courses on Negotiation and Mediation.

Robert Mnookin, Chair, PON Executive Committee

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Robert H. Mnookin is the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, the Chair of the Executive Committee, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and the Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. A leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution, Professor Mnookin has applied his interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict resolution to a remarkable range of problems, both public and private.

Robert Bordone, PON Executive Committee

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Robert C. Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. He teaches several courses at Harvard Law School including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop and in Harvard Law School’s Program of Instruction for Lawyers. As a professional facilitator and conflict resolution consultant, he works with individual and corporate clients across a spectrum of industries.

Negotiate! Radio

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Robert H. Mnookin, author of Bargaining with the Devil:  When to Negotiate, When to Fight, will be interviewed on March 17th, 2010 on Negotiate! Radio.  Negotiate! Radio is a nonprofit community service initiative. Its objectives are to collect and diffuse information on negotiation, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), both in theory and by analyzing

Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Federal Government: What’s up at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and elsewhere?

Posted by & filed under Daily, Dispute Resolution, Events.

The PON Dispute Resolution Forum and the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program Present:
Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Federal Government:
What’s up at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and elsewhere?
with
Deborah Osborne,
Group Manager, Dispute Resolution Service, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Thursday, March 4, 2010
8:00AM Breakfast
8:30AM Talk
Pound Hall, Room 335, Harvard Law School Campus

How are ADR principles applied

Framingham Court Mediation Services, Inc.

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Framingham Court Mediation Services, Inc.

600 Concord Street
Framingham, MA 01702
Tel: 508-872-9495
Fax: 508-872-9764
www.framinghammediation.org
info@framinghammediation.org

Contact: Susan Ostberg

FCMS, established in 1979, is a public, non-profit organization serving the communities of MetroWest, the Framingham, Concord, Marlborough, and Natick District Courts, and the Middlesex Juvenile Court, as well as the Middlesex Probate and Family Court. We provide alternative dispute resolution services for