The Wagner/Holbrook Presidential Chair in Negotiation Reception
DATE: Tuesday, September 2 2025
TIME: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law
COST: Free and open to the public.
RegisterABOUT THE EVENT:
The Wagner/Holbrook Presidential Chair in Negotiation in the S.J. Quinney College of Law
Presented to
Nicolás Parra-Herrera, SJD
Reception @ 3:30 pm
Refreshments will be provided
Program @ 4:00 pm
Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham
Presidential Dean and Professor of Law
James (Jim) Holbrook
Emeritus Clinical Professor
Nicolás Parra-Herrera, SJD
Wagner/Holbrook Presidential Chair in
Negotiation and Associate Professor of Law
Please RSVP by August 26, 2025.
ABOUT THE AWARD RECIPIENT:
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.
Nicolas 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 for the best paper in dispute resolution 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 on 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). He has published four books and many scholarly articles on negotiation, legal innovation, legal history and theory, and transitional justice. 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 in the practices of litigation, arbitration, and technology, media, and telecommunications. Besides his research and teaching, Professor Parra-Herrera co-produced the first podcast in law, film, and humanities in the Spanish-speaking world.
Nicolas is a middle-distance runner and an enthusiast of jazz and film. He lives happily with his wife, Maria Marulanda, and their son, Martin.
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