MLR 796 - Alternative Dispute Resolution

(3 credits)

Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Prerequisite: MLR 601 or permission of instructor. Survey of the various types of dispute resolution processes available as alternatives to litigation; detailed study of the primary dispute resolution processes-negotiation, mediation, and arbitration-as well as some of their hybrid variants; description and analysis of several noteworthy applications, the context for which ranges from the personal to the global; consideration of the impediments to use of so-called alternative dispute resolution processes, such as the alternatives to court adjudication, and suggestions on how those impediments might be overcome.

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