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New materials and exercises on legislative negotiation and causes and suggestions for remedying Congressional gridlock in negotiating legislative solutions to national problems. (First treatment of this issue in any law school negotiation/dispute resolution teaching book.)
Negotiation simulations in which students play the roles of members of Congress and state legislators.
Additional treatment of developing online dispute resolution processes.
Expansion of dispute systems design materials to include community disputes.
New materials designed to help students understand the mediation privilege, including a ※debate§ about the policy choices implicit in it and more depth on both the Uniform Mediation Act and the California mediation privilege experiences.
Addition of multiple new Supreme Court arbitration cases, including
Additional discussion of 2018-19 Supreme Court arbitration cases, including
Consideration of the #Metoo movement and its impact on arbitration agreements and confidentiality in dispute resolution processes.
Discussion of state and federal legislation addressing the use of arbitration for sexual harassment claims, including federal legislation like the
Substantial reorganization of the chapters on mediation, arbitration, and their variants, so that when students arrive at the new Chapter 8, Representing a Client in ADR (formerly Representing a Client in Mediation), the student is capable, as the modern lawyer should be, of representing a client in all ADR processes. The new emphasis is on facing the future. In addition to learning about ADR responses to existing matters, the student is challenged to put that learning to use in applying current ADR procedures to newly-developing issues, and in developing new processes when existing ones do not meet the client＊s needs.
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