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• The latest on Online Dispute Resolution and the evolution of Dispute System Design
• The most recent Supreme Court decisions on arbitration, and empirical work on mediation and negotiation
• Applications to current, real world problems with Problem Boxes for class discussion
• Consideration for where ADR fits in a changing post-COVID world of disputing, domestic and international

• A shorter, more compact book than many other ADR casebooks.
• Exercises and discussion problems throughout.
• A flexible format, designed for one chapter to be covered each week of a typical ADR course.
• International and multi-party dispute resolution, each treated comprehensively in discrete chapters.
• Authorship by award-winning authors, recognized domestically and internationally for their scholarship, practice, policy making, and standards drafting throughout the range of ADR processes.
• Readings balance theory and theory-in-use. Readings include cases, behaviorally and critically based articles, examples, empirical studies, relevant statutory and other regulatory material to illuminate the challenge of balancing rules and laws with the economic and emotional constraints inherent in disputes.
• Challenging, relevant readings include a wide range of perspectives, from Fisher, Ury, and Patton's Getting to Yes, Raiffa's Art and Science of Negotiation, and materials on modern deliberative democracy, group facilitation and decision making, and counseling clients about uses of ADR. Key cases include Viking River Cruises v. Moriana, ATT v. Concepcion and other recent Supreme court cases on arbitration, and materials on enforcement of negotiation and mediation agreements.