Negotiation Frameworks in Practice
DATE: Thursday, October 30 2025
TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Nicolás Parra-Herrera will lead an interactive session examining three negotiation frameworks—interest-based negotiation, the core concerns framework, and integration. Participants will engage in a three-phase simulation to apply these frameworks, followed by a debrief on the strengths and limitations of each approach.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Nicolás is the Wagner/Holbrook Presidential Chair in Negotiation and Associate Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. He earned his S.J.D. (doctoral degree) from Harvard Law School (HLS). He also holds a cum laude M.A. and a magna cum laude B.A. in Philosophy, as well as a magna cum laude LL.B., all from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
Professor Parra-Herrera teaches negotiation, mediation, leadership, and legal ethics. His research focuses on the intellectual history and foundations, philosophy, and ethics of negotiation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He is the recipient of the Roger Fisher and Frank Sander Prize at Harvard Law School (2024). Prior to joining the law school, Professor Parra-Herrera was a Byse Fellow at HLS, a Civil Discourse Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, a Program on Negotiation Graduate Fellow, and a fellow at the Center for the Legal Profession at HLS. He has served as a visiting professor at the Law School at Universidad de los Andes, where he taught negotiation, mediation, leadership, legal theory, and digital justice. At Harvard Kennedy School, he was a Teaching Fellow in courses on Moral Leadership, Moral Practice, and Adaptive Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, where he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching (2024). Earlier in his career, Professor Parra-Herrera clerked at the Colombian Constitutional Court and practiced law for five years at prestigious law firms in Colombia. Besides his research and teaching, Professor Parra-Herrera co-produces the first podcast in law, film, and humanities in the Spanish-speaking world.
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