HMP Students Mediate Harassment Prevention Orders

Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) student Chris Pochon writes in this week’s HLS News about the challenges of mediating Harassment Prevention Order (HPO) cases, which “almost always involve complex personal relationships and high emotions” and “are some of the most difficult cases for judges to handle”. Learn more about a pilot program at Quincy District Court with HMP mediators and the techniques mediators use to channel emotionally charged conversations into constructive outcomes. More…