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Indian Tribal Rights And The National Forests: The Case Of The Aboriginal Lands Of The Nez Perce Tribe, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

No abstract provided.

Primer On Competitive Bargaining, A, Gary Goodpaster

Journal of Dispute Resolution

The aim of this Article is to explore the competitive bargaining strategy in depth. Because competitive negotiation behavior is common, and sometimes advisable, one must understand it well to master negotiation practice. Knowing how competitors operate enables a negotiator to recognize competitive bargaining when it occurs and to deal with it affirmatively by transforming a competitive negotiation into a cooperative one or defensively by countering competitive moves. Furthermore, even parties who negotiate cooperatively sometimes compete. For example, negotiators may create a win-win situation by cooperating to "increase the size of the pie" to be divided between them. Nonetheless, they still …

Using Decision Trees As Tools For Settlement, Marjorie Corman Aaron

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

While experienced lawyers can some­ times develop an intuitive sense of what a case is worth, their intuition may not be sufficient in a case of considerable complexity. Furthermore, intuitive "gut sense" valuations are hard to support or explain to clients.

Decision trees allow the parties and their lawyers to see more clearly how the strengths and weaknesses of their positions on specific issues will affect the overall value of a case. Long popular in the business community, deci­sion analysis has evolved as a tool for lawyers to help make decisions in complex litigation.

Negotiation As A Healing Process, Gerald R. Williams

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Beginning in the late 1970's and continuing even today, there has been intense criticism in the media and elsewhere that Americans are too litigious, that people and institutions are too frequently going to court against one another. While the criticism may be partly merited, when considered from a more personal perspective, what seems remarkable is not how much litigation there is, but how little. For example, most members of society suffer harms, inconvenienses, and injustices that infringe on their legal rights and could be, if they chose, grounds for legal action. Most individuals recognize, however, that if they made a …

The Use Of Alternative Dispute Resolution In Natural Resource Damage Assessments, Sarah L. Inderbitzin, Nicholas Targ, James L. Byrnes, Bruce A. Johnson

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms: Experience In The United States, Whitmore Gray

Other Publications

The objective of this portion of our conference on judicial reform is to discuss means to promote swift and fair resolution of disputes. Although much of our discussion will center on reform of basic court systems and civil procedure in various countries, my particular focus is on alternatives to traditional institutions and techniques. These alternatives include a variety of what we might call "courtannexed" procedures, that is, procedures that occur during the course of traditional litigation. I will also consider, however, other procedures that might better be characterized as purely "private" techniques for resolving disputes—those that occur before or at …

The Obligation To Negotiate In International Law: Rules And Realities, Martin A. Rogoff

Michigan Journal of International Law

Considered in this article is the important question of whether the obligation to negotiate imposes an affirmative obligation on a state to seek actively negotiations with the other interested state or states before it can legally engage in certain activities, or whether the obligation to negotiate simply requires the state subject to the obligation to respond favorably when asked by the other state or states to enter into negotiations.

Comparative Analysis Of Labor Mediation Using A Bargaining Strength Model, Alvin L. Goldman

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The comparison of different legal systems offers a number of analytical and research advantages, one of which is that it provides a laboratory for observing differences and similarities in the ways in which common regulatory and dispute resolution models operate in similar and dissimilar environments. This Essay uses that laboratory to illustrate how the bargaining strength model presented in Settling for More: Mastering Negotiation Strategies and Techniques can be applied in analyzing mediatory interventions and provide a better understanding of (a) how such interventions can be utilized most effectively, (b) when they are useful, (c) when they are superfluous, and …

Lawyer's Agenda For Understanding Alternative Dispute Resolution, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Negotiated Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Agreements With American Indian Tribes As Models For Expanding First Nations’ Self-Government, David H. Getches

Publications

Constitutional issues related to First Nations sovereignty have dominated Aboriginal affairs in Canada for a considerable period. The constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal self-government has, however, received a setback with the recent failure of the Charlottetown Accord in October of 1992. Nonetheless, day-to-day issues must be accommodated, even while this more fundamental constitutional question remains unresolved. This paper illustrates the American experience with negotiated intergovernmental agreements between tribes and individual states. These agreements have, for example, resolved jurisdictional disputes over taxation, solid waste disposal, and law enforcement between state governments and tribal authorities. The author suggests that these intergovernmental agreements in …

Negotiating In Good Faith: Management's Obligation To Maintain The Status Quo During Collective Bargaining Under The Railway Labor Act - International Ass'n Of Machinists & Aerospace Workers V. Transportes Aereos Mercantiles Pan Americandos, S.A., Jay M. Dade

Journal of Dispute Resolution

When an employer and employee-representative union engage in collective bargaining negotiations, their negotiating activities are covered under the auspices of the Railway Labor Act.2 The Act, particularly applicable today in the tumultuous airline industry, established a rather elaborate mechanism for negotiation, mediation, voluntary arbitration, and conciliation to avoid interruptions to interstate commerce, to protect employees' freedom of association with respect to labor unions, and to provide prompt and orderly dispute settlements. 3 Indispensable to this scheme, Section 152, First of the Act imposes a statutory obligation upon the parties to such negotiations to bargain in good faith.4 In International Ass …

Book Review

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Getting Past No is an important companion to a previous book co-authored by William Ury. In 1981, Ury collaborated with Roger Fisher on a book entitled Getting to Yes, 3 which has sold more than two million copies and has become one of the most influential works on the subject of negotiation. Getting to Yes is a lucid, step-by-step guide for negotiating mutually satisfactory agreements. The authors labeled their approach "principled negotiation" and boiled it down to the following points: separate the people from the problem; focus on interests, not positions; generate a variety of possibilities before deciding what to …

A Primer On Resolving Disputes: Lessons From Alternative Dispute Resolution, Harold I. Abramson

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Washington Instream Resources Protection: In Transition, Hedia Adelsman

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

45 pages.

Contains references.

Book Review Of Legal Negotiation: Theory And Applications, John S. Murray

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Agenda: Moving The West's Water To New Uses: Winners And Losers, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Moving the West's Water to New Uses: Winners and Losers (Summer Conference, June 6-8)

Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado Law School professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Mark Squillace.

Moving the West's Water to New Uses: Winners and Losers will be the theme for this year's water conference, June 6-8 at the Law School in Boulder. The conference will consider the changing demands for water in the West and the need to reallocate a portion of the existing uses of water to new uses.

The first day will provide the background by looking at the most likely sources of water to meet these demands, including agriculture, federal water projects, interstate transfers, and …

Chipping Away At Lawyer Veracity: The Aba's Turn Toward Situation Ethics In Negotiations, Ruth Fleet Thurman

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This Article questions the wisdom of the Model Rule's exceptions to honest dealings in negotiations on several grounds: (1) Proponents of the exceptions have not offered empirical evidence or professional justification for this approach; 16 (2) The approach will further tarnish the profession's image; (3) The approach will create a slippery slope that leads to unintended ethical violations; and (4) The approach will erode the high degree of trust, veracity and integrity required of lawyers as "officer[s] of the legal system."1 7 For these reasons, the Model Rule's exceptions to honesty in negotiations should be abolished by the ABA and …

Teaching Mediation As A Lawyering Role, Jacqueline M. Nolan-Haley, Maria R. Volpe

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Integrating Dispute Resolution Into Standard First-Year Courses: The Missouri Plan, Leonard L. Riskin, James E. Westbrook

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Antidegradation And Nonpoint Source Pollution In The West, H. Michael Anderson

Water Quality Control: Integrating Beneficial Use and Environmental Protection (Summer Conference, June 1-3)

31 pages.

Contains references.

Negotiated Investment Strategy, Carl M. Moore

Journal of Dispute Resolution

The Negotiated Investment Strategy (NIS) was created by the urban affairs program at the Kettering Foundation as a vehicle for cities to shape their own future. The creators of the NIS, in the late 1970's, observed that while most major cities needed help, such help was hard to come by. Three reasons account for this. First, the assistance that was available to cities, particularly from the federal government, was often in the form of categorical grants, and it was difficult to tailor the assistance to the particular needs of the city. Second, there was a great deal of duplication of …

Adr And Civil Procedure: A Chapter Or An Organizing Theme?, Bryant G. Garth

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Civil Procedure And Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Lawyer's Role And The Opportunity For Change, Paul J. Spiegelman

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Teaching Of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Lisa G. Lerman

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Using Process Observaton To Teach Alternative Dispute Resolution: Alternatives To Simulation, Robert A. Baruch Bush

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Mediation In Debtor/Creditor Relationships, Edward A. Morse

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Two states that have substantial interests in agricultural debtor/creditor relationships have attempted to limit the social and economic costs of prematurely terminating the debtor/creditor relationship. Iowa and Minnesota have adopted a statutory requirement that the creditor offer to submit to mediation prior to taking any debt collection action against an agricultural borrower. This Note argues that requiring creditors to offer mediation as a statutory prerequisite to debt collection is an effective means of reducing the social and economic costs of the premature termination of a debtor/creditor relationship in business contexts. Part I examines the conceptual foundations of the mediation process …

Deceptive Negotiating And High-Toned Morality, Walter W. Steele, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

Rising concern about the adequacy of the adversary system to deal with disputes quickly, fairly, and economically has led to increased interest in a broad range of alternate dispute resolution mechanisms such as arbitration and the use of mini-trials. Presently, however, negotiation between disputants or negotiation between counsel for disputants is the best understood and most often utilized alternative to litigation. In fact, negotiating prior to litigating is so pervasive that it might be thought of as an inherent part of the litigation process. From a lawyer's perspective, an advantage of negotiation over other forms of dispute resolution is that …

Teaching The Trade: An Appellate Judge's View Of Practice Oriented Legal Education, Patricia W Ald

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Lessons From The Alternative Dispute Resolution Movement, Jethro K. Lieberman

Articles & Chapters

In less than a decade, alternative dispute resolution- ADR-has grown from a bravely-voiced hope to a congeries of practices animated by the desire to resolve legal battles outside the courtroom. ADR offers a way-station, or a series of them, between the probity of the adversary system and the flexibility of private negotiations. Though not without an ideology, ADR has never had a unified theory to explain what it accomplishes and how it works. But enough experience has accumulated by now to permit a search for a more analytical understanding of ADR and the lessons it might teach.

Clinical Negotiating Achievement As A Function Of Traditional Law School Success And As A Predictor Of Future Negotiating Performance, Charles B. Carver

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This article will explore the degree to which these two basic hypotheses have been substantiated. Statistical comparisons will be made between negotiation course performance and overall law school success. Comparisons of bargained results obtained in a Trial Advocacy class are made between students who had previously taken my Lawyer as Negotiator course and students who had not received such clinical training.