Harvard School of Law Professor Robert H. Mnookin will deliver the 46th annual John R. Coen Lecture on, Thursday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom at the CU-葫芦娃视频 School of Law.听
A leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution, Mnookin will discuss Iraq, the Taliban and other conflicts that raise the questions of whether and when to negotiate.
The lecture, titled "When Not To Negotiate: A Negotiation Imperialist Reflects on Appropriate Limits," is free and open to the public. Mnookin is the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard University, chair of the law school's Steering Committee of the Program on Negotiation and the director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project.
Professor Mnookin has applied his interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict resolution to a wide range of problems, both public and private. Among his many accomplishments, Mnookin helped resolve a dispute between corporate giants IBM and Fujitsu over operating system software, served on the appellate panel that reviewed a "salary cap" dispute between the National Basketball Association and its player's union and mediated an environmental dispute between the Motorola Corp. and Siemens Corp.
The Coen Lecture Series is sponsored by a gift from Adrian S. Coen in memory of her husband, John, who was a distinguished member of the Colorado bar. Income from the Coen Trust is used to bring distinguished scholars, lawyers and jurists to the CU School of Law for public lectures.听
The lecture has been approved for one credit in general continuing legal education. For more information call (303) 492-8047, or visit the law school Web page at .