George Ross, Donald Trump's negotiator, gives insight into the techniques and skills he acquired as a negotiator for over 50 years. The product of his experience has culminated into what is known as trump style negotiation, and the book illuminates and teaches the varies strategies of this negotiation style.
Courts should refuse to enforce overly vague Islamic mahr marriage agreements. US judicial interpretation of mahr agreements has been inconsistent and leads to confusing precedent. Non-enforcement will incentivize users of mahr agreements to reform them to be less vague and to include arbitration provisions.
Author examines how mediation education is being offered in law schools. The article shows how mediation education utilizes educational precepts inherent to Jesuit education. Use of these precepts amplify the effectiveness of mediation education.
The increasingly burdensome caseload of Inter-American Court of human Rights calls for the development of creative settlement practice, such as pilot judgments, and stronger settlement rules in order to more effectively resolve indigenous claims. By speeding up the process and having more forceful compliance rules in place, indigenous claimants should be in a better place to receive appropriate reparations and the Court's caseload burden should be eased.
The author scrutinizes Maine's experiment with court-connected alternative dispute resolution, whereby most categories of civil claims must attempt an alternative dispute resolution procedure. Based on empirical data, the author concludes that mandatory, mid-discovery mediation speeds up the pace of resolutions, increases the likelihood of settlement, and may reduce party costs. He recommends keeping the program mandatory, and urges cautious expansion into other categories of courts.
The author analyzes Professor Robert Hudec's perspective on the role of developing countries in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations. In particular, this article discusses the divergent interests of developed states and the developing states in international trade negotiations. Focusing heavily on the proliferation of preferential trade agreements, the author notes that these agreements may ultimately harm the interests of developing countries and hamper their capacity to liberalize....
Negotiations form the heart of mergers and acquisitions efforts. The book presents a summary of negotiating and deal structuring that shows readers how brokers, accountants, attorneys, tax experts, managers and investors must work together when negotiating mergers.
John Patrick Dolan offers tactics for effective negotiation. This book addresses such issues as how to approach issues such as impasse and intimidation. Also, the book offers strategies for reading your negotiation opponent.
In recent decades, trends have developed in international arbitration which challenge arbitration's ability to be timely and cost-effective. International arbitration must address these challenges in order to remain an efficient method of dispute resolution.