Overview
Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law is an ideal and up-to-date text for the new generation of practice-oriented dispute resolution courses. This lively new book captures a lawyer's perspective on resolving disputes effectively and prepares your students to represent clients effectively in all forms of alternative dispute resolution.
This timely and teachable text:
- presents class-tested material designed for the survey course, with sections on negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and hybrid designs
- integrates theory with strategies, ethics, and the law
- emphasizes practice applications and useful approaches
- focuses on the lawyer's perspective; the negotiation section highlights professional negotiation as an agent for clients, while the mediation and arbitration sections stress the role of the representational lawyer
- includes examples drawn from headline cases, literature, and lawyers' experiences, adding to the realism and relevance of the text
- excerpts the most important and recent articles and cases
- draws on the authors' extensive experience and from their key roles with major dispute resolution provider organizations as well as their many years of teaching, training, and practicing ADR
A complete Teacher's Manual helps instructors prepare for class with:
- detailed syllabi
- comprehensive teaching notes
- provocative discussion points
- tested exercises and role-plays linked to the text
- DVD/video coordinated with the text and role-plays (available to adopters)
If you want to convey more than the basics and prepare your students for successful, enlightened practice, turn to Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law for the most current and most realistic exploration of ADR.
Synopsis
Most texts on alternative dispute resolution are written from the perspective of someone negotiating for themselves, serving as a neutral, or seeking to reform the legal system. Folberg (U. of San Francisco), Dwight Golann (Suffolk U.), Lisa Kloppenberg (U. of Dayton), and Thomas Stipanowich (CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution) write from the perspective of a lawyer representing a client. After an orientation to the full spectrum of dispute resolution and its contexts for lawyers, they examine the lawyer's role in the four categories of alternatives to trial: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and stepped or hybrid processes. They provide real-life and literary examples, questions to stimulate class discussion, and exercises and role plays. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR