mediation services

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Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations?

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Russell Korobkin, Professor of Law at UCLA Law School and faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

When lawsuits are resolved out of court, what determines the settlement amount? As a first approximation, the legal merits of the lawsuit matter, of course. Settlements are negotiated in the shadow of the law. But there

Student Interest Group Fireside Chat with Prof. Lawrence Susskind

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Lawrence Susskind, Director of MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT.

Professor Lawrence Susskind, a co-founder of PON, is currently Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, Director of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group at MIT, and Director of the Consensus Building Institute, a not-for-profit that provides environmental

Mediating Special Education Disputes in Massachusetts

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Speakers:
Nancy Grant
Steve Lilly-Weber
Susan Papanek McHugh

For nearly 30 years, the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals (BSEA) has used mediation to help parents and public school districts resolve disputes about individualized education plans. In fiscal year 2005, eight BSEA mediators conducted nearly 800 mediation sessions. This presentation will explore the challenges and rewards of this work,