Negotiation
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF L1W

FALL 2012
Instructors:
Dawn Effron
617-451-8010
Peter Perroni

The course explores the theory and the art of resolving conflict through negotiation. Various styles are presented for comparison and analysis. Students are urged to evaluate their own intuitive style and to experience others’. Practical experience is achieved through one-on-one and group negotiations exercises. The theory of conflict, strategic choice, ethical issues, and the negotiator’s dilemma are presented in a variety of substantive contexts. Students are required to prepare a brief weekly journal on an assigned topic. Term paper also required. (Section Times: TBA)

Mediation and Dispute Resolution Clinic (ME900-D-02)
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW

FALL 2012

Instructor:
Dawn Effron
617-451-0010

Students are placed in settings that expose them to mediation, ideally in placements in which the students themselves actually perform the mediations under close supervision. At least three students work under the supervision of the course instructor. Credit options must be selected with permission of the course instructor, since the credit selection may limit placement possibilities. (Day and time to be determine by placement.)

Mediation
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW(ME355)

FALL 2012

Instructor:
Michele Dorsey
617-451-0010

This course focuses on legal, ethical, sociological, and procedural aspects of mediation and involves a series of student simulation exercises on fact patterns drawn from several of the following fields: divorce, child custody, land use, education, health care, construction employment and small business. Special attention is given to issues of whether mediation, as opposed to judicial proceedings, disempower the already weak. (Section time TBA)

Arbitration: Labor and Employment
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW

SPRING 2012

Instructor:
Richard D. Zaiger

This course has two distinct but related goals. First, it is an in-depth study of the law governing labor and employment arbitration. In that sense, it is like a traditional law school course. Second, it is designed to teach the skills necessary for advocates and neutrals in labor and employment arbitration. In that respect, it is like a skills-training course. Limit: 20. (Monday 9:30 a.m. — 11:10 a.m.)

Alternative Dispute Resolution
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW (AR252)

FALL 2012
Instructor:
Davalene Cooper
Martha Koster
617-422-7271

Designed to familiarize students with alternatives to traditional means of settling disputes. The course begins with the traditional method of dispute resolution, litigation, and later concentrates on negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. The course also exposes students to various programs in Massachusetts that use alternative processes of dispute resolution.

In-class simulations of fact patterns are used as a means of illustrating certain resolution methods. A major portion of the final grade is based on the successful completion and in-class presentation of a research paper by each student, which looks critically at an emerging issue in the ADR field. Please check the most recent course registration information to determine if this course meets the professional skills or seminar requirements. (Session times TBA)

The courses in this Directory relate to the resolution or management of conflict in a variety of settings. Courses in substantive law in particular fields (such as labor law) are generally not included unless they contain major segments on the resolution of disputes. Courses in related fields, such as arms control and disarmament, are also generally not listed.

By Course Type:
General Overview Courses
Arbitration Courses
Mediation Courses
International Dispute Resolution and Peacemaking Courses
Negotiation Courses
Dispute Resolution in Managing Organizations
Dispute Resolution in Healthcare
Dispute Resolution
in Intercultural and Ethnic Conflicts
Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector

By School:
Babson College
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Cambridge College
Emerson College
Harvard Business School
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Law School
Harvard University Extension School
Harvard University School of Public Health
Lesley University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New England School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
Program on Negotiation Courses
Simmons College
Suffolk University Law School
Tufts University (including The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
University of Massachusetts Boston

BABSON COLLEGE
www.babson.edu

• 781-239-5522

BOSTON COLLEGE
www.bc.edu

• Undergraduate: 617-552-3900
• Law School: 617-552-8550
• School of Management: 617-552-3300

BOSTON UNIVERSITY
www.bu.edu

• Law School: 617-353-3115
  For courses and schedule:
  www.bu.edu/law/jd/registrar
• School of Management: 617-353-2673

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
www.brandeis.edu

• 781-736-2010

CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE
www.cambridge.edu

• 617-868-1000

EMERSON COLLEGE
www.emerson.edu/registrar

• 617-824-8655

FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY
www.tufts.edu

• 617-627-3055
  Cross-registration runs from September 7 to
  September 16.
  Information on cross-registration:
  http://www.fletcher.tufts.edu/academic/cross-registration-info.shtml

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
www.harvard.edu

• Business School: 617-495-9459
• Extension School: 617-495-4024
• Kennedy School of Government: 617-495-1150
• Law School: 617-495-4612
• Program on Negotiation: 617-495-1684
  www.pon.harvard.edu

LESLEY UNIVERSTIY
www.lesley.edu

• 617-349-8740

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
www.mit.edu

• 617-253-4784

NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW
www.nesl.edu

• 617-422-7215

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
www.neu.edu

• Law School: 617-373-2935

SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
www.suffolk.edu

• 617-573-8160

TUFTS UNIVERSITY
www.tufts.edu

• 617-628-5000

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS-BOSTON
www.umb.edu
disres.umb.edu

• 617-929-7380

Michael A. Wheeler, Co-Director of the Dispute Resolution Program, Editor of Negotiation Journal, and member of the Program on Negotiation Steering Committee since 1984, has been appointed the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He joined the School’s faculty in 1993.

Professor Wheeler currently serves as faculty chair of the MBA Required Curriculum, which is taken by students during their first year at the School. He also teaches a second-year elective, “Negotiating Complex Deals and Disputes,” and a variety of courses in the School’s Executive Education Program.

Wheeler’s research focuses on complex negotiations, dispute resolution, and new Internet-based deal-making systems. He is the author or coauthor of eight books, including On Teaching Negotiation and Business Fundamentals: Negotiation, as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals and the public press. His text Environmental Dispute Resolution (with Lawrence Bacow) won the Center for Public Resources’ annual award as the best book on negotiation.

Wheeler taught in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1981 to 1994, where he was director of research at the Center for Real Estate Development. Previously, he was a professor of law at the New England School of Law, and director of education and research at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado and the Politecnico di Torino in Italy.

Wheeler holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Amherst College, a J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law, and an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, with a concentration in law and public policy. Admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1969, he has been a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, and has served as a mediator or arbitrator in a variety of business and regulatory disputes.

He lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with his wife, Candace Wheeler, who is the town manager of Hamilton, Massachusetts. They have two daughters, Kate and Caroline.