An adjudicative process by which a private third-party neutral renders a binding determination of an issue in dispute. (Michael L. Moffitt and Robert C. Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution [Program on Negotiation/Jossey-Bass, 2005], 318-19)
The following items are tagged arbitration.
Please join us to learn more about dispute systems design and engage in what we anticipate will be a lively and thoughtful series of discussions. The Symposium is open to the public and admission is free.
Please RSVP by March 3 to hnlr@law.harvard.edu.
Featuring leading scholars and practitioners, including:
Ken Feinberg
Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim
Compensation
Blind Justice? Think Twice Before Going to Court: Judicial bias and error may prevent you from getting a fair trial. Here’s why you might choose to negotiate instead
Gender Matters in Workplace Decisions: Learn which rule-making procedures male and female employees prefer, and improve job satisfaction and productivity
Lead the Way: Resolving In-House Disputes. Manage the
PON 2006 Summer Fellows Anika Locke Binnendijk, Zev Eigen, Susan Hayward and Rachel Schiller
PON 2006 Summer Fellows will discuss their international projects:
Anika Locke Binnendijk (Fletcher School): Negotiation, Loyalty Shifts, and Nonviolent Strategy in the Serbian Otpor Movement to Oust Milosevic
Zev Eigen (MIT): Litigants’ Perceptions of Justice and Fairness in Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Disputes in
Speaker:
Professor Emeritus Frank Sander
Please join Professor Emeritus Frank Sander for the first Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF) of the 2006 – 2007 academic year.
Why are some jurisdictions so receptive to mediation and others so indifferent or even hostile to it? Can we develop some kind of metric (the MRI or Mediation Receptivity Index) to measure
The Summer 2006 issue of the HLS Alumni Bulletin featured a tribute to Professor Frank E. A. Sander on the occasion of his retirement written by Robert C. Bordone, the Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and the director of the HLS Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program. Professor Bordone’s full tribute is below:
When
This volume is an essential, cutting-edge reference for all practitioners, students, and teachers in the field of dispute resolution. Each chapter was written specifically for this collection and has never before been published. The contributors–drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines–are among the most prominent in dispute resolution today, including Frank E. A. Sander,
Redoing the Deal: Regenerating an agreement is different from hammering it out from scratch. Your tactics should change accordingly
Borrowing from Baseball: The Surprising Benefits of Final-Offer Arbitration. It’s a satisfying paradox; agreeing to final-offer arbitration boosts the likelihood of a negotiated resolution – and actually decreases the chances that you’ll need to hire an
The Dangers of Compromise: The tendency in negotiation is to “split the difference.” Yet a more creative approach would allow both sides to get more than half of the value under dispute
“Negotiauctions”: Taking a Hybrid Approach to the Sale of High-Value Assets: A negotiauction, like an auction, brings many potential bidders into the process,
Presenter:
Brian S. Mandell
In his presentation, The Limits of Track II Diplomacy: Early Lessons from the Geneva Initiative, Brian Mandell will examine the effectiveness of Track II initiatives. In December 2003, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed the Geneva Accord, a peace initiative that was negotiated in secret for more than two years despite
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