Alternative Dispute Resolution

Catalog description

This course aims to help law students become effective problem solvers through development of their knowledge and skills in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration as applied to a range of legal disputes. Students will learn to assist clients in identifying their goals and searching for creative solutions that produce efficient, expansive and effective outcomes. Students will learn about negotiation, mediation, and arbitration through lectures, but primarily through case simulations followed by critical feedback. Class attendance is critical. Class focus will be on the mediation and collaborative legal forums of Alternative Dispute Resolution, with an emphasis on learning procedural aspects of mediation and arbitration, and the collaborative skills of negotiation. This course will provide students with the opportunity to gain practical knowledge and familiarity with the different methods of alternatives to litigation. Classes will include lectures, simulations, role-playing, and outcome-based actual case studies. This is a Skills course.