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Advocacy in Negotiation and Mediation KF9084 .H464 2021
By G. Nicholas Herman
This book focuses on lawyering skills in negotiating and mediating, including the lawyer's counseling function and ethical responsibilities in connection with these dispute resolution processes.
Alternative Dispute Resolution: Strategies for Law and Business, KF9084 .T73
A highlight of this casebook is the section on professional qualifications and professional responsibility of dispute resolution professionals.The appendix includes various role play exercises for mediation, arbitration and negotiation practical experience.
Commercial Arbitration (Oehmke)
Commercial Law covers all the core areas of general commercial practice, including agency and distribution agreements; sale and supply of goods and services; international sales contracts; credit and security; bills of exchange; competition law; intellectual property law and commercial contracts.
Corporate Counsel's Guide to Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques.
Provides information about ADR techniques, corporate planning, contract drafting, resolving 3-commerce and Internet-related disputes, and online dispute resolution.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (2011)
The key text on problem-solving negotiation. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution. Getting to Yes offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict. It offers readers a straight- forward, universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting angry-or getting taken.
How Arbitration Works (Elkouri)
How Arbitration Works provides a comprehensive analysis of the arbitration process, including citations to hundreds of recent arbitration awards, references to key judicial decisions, both academic and professional commentary on the issues, administrative agency regulations and opinions, and federal and state legislation.
Mediation and Negotiation: Reaching Agreement in Law and Business
This book covers the consensual dispute resolution processes, predominantly mediation and negotiation. These materials focus on business transactions, defined broadly to include employment and consumer disputes.
The Mediation Process, HM1126 .M667 2014 (also online)
The Fourth Edition of a seminal work in the field ofmediation and conflict resolution For almost thirty years, conflict resolution practitioners,faculty, and students have depended on The Mediation Process as the all-inclusive guide to the discipline. The most comprehensive book written on mediation, this text is perfect for new and experienced conflict managers working in any area of dispute resolution: family, community, employment, business,environmental, public policy multicultural, or international.
Negotiation Skills Essentials
PLI Course Handbook
Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law KF9084 .R475 (Course Reserve)
Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law, Second Edition, prepares the reader to represent clients in all forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Study Aids

Alternative Dispute Resolution in a Nutshell KF9084.Z9 N65
A concise summary of alternatives to the court adjudication of disputes. Negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and various hybrids such as arb-med and med-arb are covered, as well as consensus-building and court-connected processes. .
Arbitration Law in a Nutshell KF9085.Z9 C37 2021
This Nutshell on arbitration addresses freedom of contract, federal preemption, and universal arbitrability. It conveys a thorough sense of the relevant case law and applicable rules. It describes the unique features of the various forms of arbitration.
Dispute Resolution: Examples and Explanations KF9084 .M655
Highly Respected ADR authors bring their expertise to the E&E series. Dispute Resolution combines introductions to theory with practice exercises in decision analysis, problem solving, and various forms of conflict resolution.
Legal Negotiation in a Nutshell KF9084.Z9 T46 2023
Follows the entire process from opening negotiations to settlement. Text first introduces negotiation in law practice and representing a client in legal negotiation. Covers the basic types of legal negotiations, case evaluation, and preparation. Also addresses the types of legal disputes that should not be negotiated. Examines negotiating styles, strategies, and tactics as well as the stages of legal negotiation.
Mediation in a Nutshell, KF9084.Z9 K68
Examines the legal, philosophical, policy, and practical issues surrounding mediation use. Included are levels of participation in mediation, enforceability of mediated agreements, regulation of practice including ethical issues, and a survey of the specialized applications of mediation.

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Subject Headings for Secondary Sources

The library has an extensive collection on Alternative Dispute Resolution. You can search the following subject headings on the library's online catalog for additional resources:

Arbitration and Award
Arbitration and Award United States
Dispute Resolution Law
Dispute Resolution Law United States
Mediation
Mediation United States
Negotiation
Negotiation United States

Journals & Law Reviews

For information on finding law review and journal articles generally, see our guide Articles for Legal & Non-Legal Research and our Secondary Sources Tutorial. A list of selected journals on ADR & Mediation include:

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
also in print K3 .A5923 (vol. 5-10)
Harvard Negotiation Law Review
also in print K8 .A853 (vol. 1-15)
Journal of Dispute Resolution
also in print until 2011 K10 .O2995
Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution
also in print K15 .H35 ( vol. 1-25)
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Journal
also in print K16 .E498 (vol. 1-10)

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