Beyond the Courtroom Resolving Disputes through Agreement. Collected Articles and Essays by Hal Abramson

<p><i>Beyond the Courtroom</i> provides a compilation of articles and chapters by a dispute resolution  scholar who has made remarkable contributions over his thirty-year career. Professor Abramson has focused his research and practice on parties trying to resolve their own disputes. This book includes publications that have contributed to launching the then new field of mediation representation with special attention on how attorneys, as gate keepers to mediation, can effectively represent clients. The book also includes his original publications that have contributed to the emerging field of intercultural and international mediation and the already robust and mature field of negotiations.</p>