Symposium 2012 Is Just Around The Corner

96 days ago

Did you get your tickets??? No? GOOD! No tickets required!

Join us, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, on Saturday, February 25, 2012, for the Symposium of the year planned in collaboration with the Program on Negotiation and the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program.

If you are interested in ADR and have a pulse this is an event you will not want to miss.
The full-day event will take a close look at cutting-edge research into the challenging and essential work of evaluating the effectiveness of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in different contexts, and the discourse will be joined by many prominent academics and experts in the field, such as professors Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Cathy Costantino, and Lawrence Susskind.

These and other eminent scholars will address the following questions that have kept me up many a night: How can we best measure ADR’s successes and failures? As we move into the next generation of ADR, researchers from different disciplines are looking at a variety of ADR programs and asking, “Does ADR ‘work’ here?” and “What would ‘working’ really look like?” I certainly don’t know and I’m betting you don’t either.We will spend the day exploring how researchers can and should evaluate the effectiveness of ADR in a number of contexts. Contexts we will address include:

  • ADR as a form of “cheap justice,” (sounds exciting to me!)
  • ADR and the criminal justice system, and (what is more exciting than criminal work I wonder)
  • Qualitative versus quantitative methods of evaluating ADR. (if you don’t know what that means there is only one way to find out)

Please contact us at hnlr@mail.law.harvard.edu if you have any questions, and we look forward to seeing you there!

And REGISTER HERE!