Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School welcomes students from across the Boston area who are interested in negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. Advancing issues of negotiation is central to our mission of helping individuals become more effective leaders. That’s why we offer students access to expert insights, internship opportunities, funding for research, and more.

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EXPLORE OUR STUDENT RESOURCES
INSIGHTS FROM WORLD-RENOWNED EXPERTS

We host various events throughout the year, including conversations with world leaders, film series, book discussions, and seminars on current negotiation and mediation tactics employed around the globe. For details about upcoming events, click here.

PON Next Generation Grant applications due May 7

FUNDING FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH

PON provides fellowship and grant opportunities to help qualified individuals pursue academic research and projects in the field of negotiation.

Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to encourage young scholars from the social sciences and professional disciplines to pursue theoretical, empirical, and/or applied research in negotiation and dispute resolution. Each fellow receives a $35,000 stipend for one year of dissertation research and writing in negotiation and related topics in alternative dispute resolution. The fellowship also provides full access to PON facilities and Harvard libraries.

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

Summer Fellowships
Summer fellowship grants focus on the connection between scholarship and practice in negotiation and dispute resolution by supporting students interested in exploring career paths, either professional or academic. Summer fellowships provide students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, and other Boston-area schools with up to $3,500 for internships or summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, nonprofit, or academic organizations..

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

Next Generation Grants
Next Generation Grants support research in negotiation and conflict resolution by nontenured faculty and doctoral students. Faculty and students from any school or department within PON’s interuniversity consortium (Harvard, MIT, Tufts) may apply. Postdoctoral students with formal affiliations to Harvard or one of our consortium schools are also welcome to apply. Doctoral student grants are limited to $5,000; nontenured, tenure-track faculty grants are limited to $10,000.

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

Graduate Student Grants
Our Student Grants program supports cutting-edge research projects in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution at the graduate level. Grants are awarded for specific research projects in amounts of up to $1,000. Students from any Boston-area school may apply.

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

COURSES

Harvard Law School Negotiation and Mediation Programs
Harvard Law School offers a number of negotiation and mediation opportunities in addition to the offerings at PON:


Mediation

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Mediation (LAW-44000A)
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

SPRING 2013

Instructor:
David Hoffman
Boston Law Collaborative
617-439-4700 Ext. 201

Mediation is having an increasingly profound impact on the way law is practiced in the U.S. and internationally, and clients expect both transactional lawyers and litigators to have a working knowledge of the mediation process. This course focuses on the theory and practice of mediation. Students … Read Mediation

Mediation Theory and Practice

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Mediation Theory and Practice
BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL (JD 826)

SPRING 2015
Wednesday 10:40am-1:40pm

Instructor:
Bette Roth
617-353-8747

This course covers the theory and practice of mediation, the use of mediation to resolve disputes in different legal contexts, and the development of practical mediation skills. We will examine the mediation process, including the roles of the mediator and counsel representing a party … Read Mediation Theory and Practice

Mediation

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Mediation
BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL (LL-92502 [Fall] and LL-92501 [Spring])

FALL and SPRING 2012/2013
Instructors:
Ericka Gray

Whether you incorporate mediation into your practice as an advocate for your client or you choose to become a mediator, this course provides a sound theoretical and practical skills base necessary for ethical practice. Beginning with an overview of interest based negotiation, mediation … Read Mediation

Labor and Employment Arbitration

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Labor and Employment Arbitration
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

SPRING 2013
Instructor:
Marc D. Greenbaum
617-573-8369

This course will examine arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism in two related, but distinct, contexts. First, the course will study the legal principles applicable to the widely accepted use of arbitration as a means of resolving disputes arising under public and private sector collective … Read Labor and Employment Arbitration

Labor Arbitration Workshop

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Labor Arbitration Workshop (LAW2511)
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

SPRING and SUMMER 2012
Instructor:
Roger Abrams
617-373-2068

In this workshop, students will explore the important role of alternative dispute resolution in the workplace. Using court and arbitration decisions as well as supplementary materials, students will discuss the relationship between arbitration and the judicial system, a union’s duty of fair representative, issues … Read Labor Arbitration Workshop

Arbitration: Labor and Employment

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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 … Read Arbitration: Labor and Employment

International Commercial Arbitration

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International Commercial Arbitration (LAW-38882A)
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

WINTER 2013

Instructors:
Mark Beckett
Daniel Tan

This course provides a rigorous introduction to the field of international commercial arbitration, which has become the default means of settling international disputes. The course will deal with the internationalist elements of the subject matter, but will also examine international commercial arbitration from an American perspective. Students … Read International Commercial Arbitration

International Business Arbitration

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International Business Arbitration
BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL (JD980)

FALL 2012
Instructor:
William W. Park
617-353-3149

Legal dimensions of international business dispute resolution through binding arbitration. Treaty framework for determining validity of arbitration agreement and for recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards (New York Convention, Panama Convention, Washington Convention). Comparative approach (French, English, Swiss, and U.S. legal systems) to the influence of … Read International Business Arbitration

Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar

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Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

SPRING 2013

Instructor:
Bette J. Roth
Suffolk Law School

This seminar examines the role of lawyers as societal problem solvers employing various methods of analyzing, reducing and resolving legal and other forms of dispute without resort to formal trial. Although some disputes can only be properly resolved through trial and appeal, the vast … Read Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar

Alternative Dispute Resolution

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Alternative Dispute Resolution
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

FALL 2012/SPRING 2013

Instructor:
Dwight Golann
Fall 2012
Suffolk Law School
617-573-8183

Robert Smith
Spring 2013
Suffolk Law School
617-573-8573

One of a lawyer’s primary tasks is to resolve disputes. Most controversies are never decided by a court, but instead are settled by agreement. The ability to negotiate and mediate effectively is thus crucial for litigators as well as lawyers … Read Alternative Dispute Resolution

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