This highly regarded casebook introduced generations of students to alternative dispute resolution as the field developed from an emerging to an established area of legal practice. Now, Dispute Resolution:: Negotitation, Mediation, and Other Processes, Fourth Edition, presents the latest developments in the three main processes for settling legal disputes without litigation. In addressing mediation, negotiation, arbitration, and important hybrid approaches, The casebook: takes a thorough, systematic approach, moving from overviews to critical analyses, then to application, evaluation, and practice draws on the combined strengths of a distinguished and experienced team of authors uses direct, accessible writing to help students grasp important concepts offers particularly strong coverage of mediation, a growing area of ADR study supplies an ADR Research Guide in an appendix Completely updated throughout, The Fourth Edition presents : important contributions from new co-author Sarah Rudolph Cole, who represents the perspective of a new generation of ADR academics an increased number and range of excerpted materials and readings new or expanded problems, questions, and simulations that give students experience in evaluating, preparing for, and practicing the various dispute resolution techniques expanded coverage of arbitration and dispute systems design