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Negotiations and Mediation Seminar
Professor Melissa Reinberg J.D. Seminar 317 | 3 credit hours This seminar will focus on negotiation and mediation theory and practice as applied in a variety of legal settings. Students will study multi-disciplinary theories of negotiation and mediation through readings by Roger Fisher, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Howard Raiffa, Robert Mnookin, David Lax and James Sebenius, Leonard Riskin and others, and will put these theories into practice through a series of negotiation and mediation simulation exercises. Students will be exposed to the wide range of legal, ethical, and practical issues that must be addressed by lawyers, and they will gain the tools necessary for creative problem-solving in a legal setting. Students will have the opportunity to participate in role-play exercises as disputants, attorneys, negotiators, mediators and facilitators. Exercises will be designed around ethical issues, coalition-building, creativity, and diversity issues. One-on-one and multiple-party simulation exercises will be based on business, criminal, family, civil rights, and employment cases, as well as on community and public disputes. One of the simulated exercises will be videotaped, and students will also participate in a negotiation via email. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to observe an actual court-based mediation session in D.C. Superior Court. The seminar will meet once a week for three hours. Student evaluation will be based on several short writing assignments, class participation, and a paper due at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: Completion of all first year courses, except Property and Criminal Justice (or the equivalent Democracy and Coercion), or Criminal Procedure, is required. Students may not receive credit for both this seminar and the Negotiations Seminar or the Negotiations and Drafting Seminar. Students may take both this course and the Mediation Seminar. Attendance at all class sessions is required and all enrolled and waitlisted students must attend first class to be enrolled.
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