Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law

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 designsintegrates theory with strategies, ethics, and the lawemphasizes practice applications and useful approachesfocuses 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 lawyerincludes examples drawn from headline cases, literature, and lawyers' experiences, adding to the realism and relevance of the textexcerpts the most important and recent articles and casesdraws 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 ADRA complete Teacher's Manual helps instructors prepare for class with:detailed syllabicomprehensive teaching notesprovocative discussion pointstested exercises and role-plays linked to the textDVD/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.Professor Dwight Golann is the author of 'Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law', published 2005 under ISBN 9780735540200 and ISBN 0735540209.