Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethics, Third Edition
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2020-02-02
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Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethicsprovides a comprehensive and current introduction to the world of mediation, including an overview of conflict, perspectives on justice, and dispute resolution processes to handle disputes in a variety of contexts. The book has chapters on negotiation theory and practice, as well as law and policy, case examples, and practice guidelines for mediators and attorney representatives. Leading scholars and award-winning teachers in the field present descriptions of the various forms mediation takes and mediation’s place in the panoply of dispute resolution processes. Both critiques of mediation and descriptions of its promise and potential are included. Chapters on advising clients on process choice, dispute process design, international and complex mediation, facilitation, and hybrid processes are also offered. The practical, problem-solving approach includes both analytical and behavioral approaches in varying gender, race, and cultural contexts. The text can be used for lawyer-mediators, lawyer-representatives in mediation, and non-lawyer mediators.
New to the Third Edition:
Streamlined text designed to be more student-friendly
New updates to time-tested problems and cases have to keep the book up-to-date
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Comprehensive current coverage of mediation including:
Law and policy, case examples, and practice guidelines for mediators and attorney representatives
Authors that are leading and award-winning scholars, teachers, and practitioners in this area
Clear presentation of the advantages of mediation as well as critiques and concerns
A practical, problem-solving approach that includes:
Both analytical and behavioral approaches
Varying gender, race, and cultural contexts
Key excerpts from some of the most renowned scholars in the field
Text that is applicable across the field of mediation with coverage of:
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Carrie Menkel-Meadow is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and A.B. Chettle Jr. Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure Emerita at Georgetown University Law Center. She is one of the founders of the modern legal dispute resolution field and has been teaching negotiation, mediation and related subjects for over 35 years. She has published over 15 bobobks andb b200 articles in the field, including iMediation and Its Applications for Good Decision Making and Dispute Resolutioni (2016); iDispute Resolution Beyond the Adversary Model i(3rd ed. 2018)i; Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving i(2nd ed. 2014);i Mediation: Practice, Policy and Ethics i(2nd ed. 2013);i What’s Fair: Ethics for Negotiators i(2004);i iand a three volume edited treatise iComplex Dispute Resolution: Foundations, Decision Making, Multi-Party Dispute Resolution and International Dispute Resolution i(2012). She was the first recipient of the American Bar Association’s Award for Scholarly Excellence in Dispute Resolution (2011), for her work in conceptualizing the role of the lawyer as “problem-solver” and has won the Center for Public Resources Award for Best Scholarly article on dispute resolution three times (1983, 1991 and 1998). In February 2018 she was awarded the American Bar Foundation’s Award for Outstanding Scholar, representing her decades of research in dispute resolution, legal ethics and the legal profession and legal feminism. She has also won numerous awards for her teaching. Professor Menkel-Meadow has taught law and dispute resolution to diplomats, lawyers, law students, mediators, government officials and ordinary citizens in 26 countries (on seven continents). She is an active mediator and arbitrator, as well as policy and strategic planning facilitator, and has consulted for the World Bank, United Nations, the Federal Judicial Center and federal and state courts, and the International Red Cross on matters of conflict resolution and dispute system design. She has also worked on peace in the Middle East, transnational legal issues in Europe, transitional justice in South America, and new forms of economic cooperation and dispute resolution and legal education in Asia. She has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of disputes in the United States including commercial, class action, employment, health , asbestos, insurance, intellectual property, arts, and education cases, as well as many general civil litigation matters. She has also mediated and arbitrated cases outside of the United States.