Mediation : The Roles of Advocate and Neutral

This exciting new coursebook is designed to teach students how to represent clients effectively in resolving disputes through mediation.Written by the authors of a successful comprehensive casebook on dispute resolution and leading texts on mediating legal disputes, this book:includes all of the mediation material in their RESOLVING DISPUTES text, plus selected materials from the negotiation and hybrid sectionsincludes chapters on negotiation styles and techniques, including problem-solving, competitive, and other approaches to bargainingexpands on specific issues, such as process techniques and emotional barrierspresents new coverage of material not in the parent book, such as readings on public policy concerns and decision analysisis accompanied by a unique teaching DVD available free of charge to adopters. The 18-chapter, 120-minute DVD presents professional-quality video of mediation and negotiation created by the authors, as well as excerpts from leading mediation videosis accompanied by a thorough Teacher's Manual with detailed syllabi, teaching notes, discussion points, exercises, simulations, role-plays, and suggestions for movies and film clips. The Teacher's Manual shows how teachers can bring classes alive by coordinating text, role-plays, and DVD video of experts playing the students' rolesMEDIATION: The Roles of Advocate and Neutral has a distinctly practical focus:the text integrates theory with skills and strategies, ethics, the law, and problems drawn from practice, with greater emphasis than other texts on issues that students will encounter in legal practicefocuses on the lawyer's perspective as an agent for clientsincludes examples from headline cases, literature, and practicedraws on the authors' roles as leading ADR teachers, trainers, and practitioners of mediation in the United States and internationally