{"id":274,"date":"2012-09-04T13:06:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=274"},"modified":"2012-09-04T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:06:04","slug":"a-spotlight-on-reading-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2012\/09\/04\/a-spotlight-on-reading-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"A spotlight on reading groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Last summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/index.html?id=46\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Robert Mnookin<\/a> \u201968, an expert in the field of conflict resolution and negotiation, found himself wanting to know more about U.S.-Cuba relations. \u201cI had an idea that there was a very interesting set of questions related to when, how and whether the two countries would ever negotiate a reconciliation,\u201d he says. He decided to investigate by teaching a reading group\u2014a small, 1-credit class with no exams or graded papers, where 2Ls and 3Ls are able to dig deeply into a given topic in a way that provokes extended discussion among the group. \u201cI am not an expert on Cuba; I\u2019m an expert on negotiation, and what a reading group allowed me to do is learn with the students about an area I didn\u2019t know much about,\u201d he says.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read more, please visit the Harvard Law School web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/spotlight\/classroom\/04-page-turners.html\">http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/spotlight\/classroom\/04-page-turners.html<\/a>. For a list of the more than 90 courses, seminars and reading groups on international, comparative, or foreign law that will be taught at HLS this year, check out &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/spotlight\/ils\/faculty-and-courses\/courses-and-reading-groups\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Courses and Reading Groups<\/a>&#8221; on the International Legal Studies pages\u00a0on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Last summer, Professor Robert Mnookin \u201968, an expert in the field of conflict resolution and negotiation, found himself wanting to know more about U.S.-Cuba relations. \u201cI had an idea that there was a very interesting set of questions related to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2012\/09\/04\/a-spotlight-on-reading-groups\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}