Professors Richard Berry, Lawrence Grosberg, Gary Tidwell

Surveys mechanisms currently used instead of courts and federal agencies to resolve conflicts between two or more parties, including ADR systems such as conciliation, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, voluntary med-arb, court-ordered arbitration, rent-a-judge, and mini-trials. Students are presented with live and audio- visual demonstrations, simulation exercises, and lectures and classroom discussions of the ADR systems surveyed. The course is graded on the basis of a required paper (60%) and a one-hour examination (40%).