Everyone involved in the settlement of lawsuits should make use of this valuable resource with many practical illustrations and checklists. Even the most experienced litigators will gain valuable guidance for effective and ethical practice of litigation and negotiation. This book also is very relevant for corporate and government counsel and executives, settlement conference judges, and law school faculty and students.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-1-64105-570-3 (9781641055703)
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Professor Michaela Keet has been involved in curriculum development in the dispute resolution area at every level in thecollege's program, including the design of an intensive dispute resolution program for first-year students and advanced courses in Negotiation, Mediation, and clinical placements. In 2011, Prof. Keet was awarded the Provost's College Award for Outstanding Teaching in Law.
Prof. Keet has worked as a mediator in private and public practice across a variety of settings. With Saskatchewan Labour, she mediated and conciliated complex labour disputes. With Saskatchewan Justice, she mediated civil litigation files including matters such as commercial contract disputes, wrongful dismissal and personal injury. Prof. Keet has also acted as a labour arbitrator and as a consultant for organizations designing or evaluating their own dispute resolution processes and systems. In the earlier part of her career, Prof. Keet worked as a lawyer in private practice, with a focus on labour, employment and administrative law.
Prof. Keet has extensive experience as a trainer and public speaker on dispute resolution processes and issues, including the development of educational programs for lawyers, judges and other adjudicators and professionals. In addition to her law school teaching, Prof. Keet has delivered presentations and training programs for the following audiences:National Judicial Institute, Saskatchewan Legal Education Society, Canadian Bar Association, Provincial Court Judges, business and human resources professionals, unions, members of local aboriginal governments, and many other organizations.
Her teaching, research and publications have focused on dispute resolution, particularly on mediation, negotiation and the integration of dispute resolution programs into the court system - in both civil and criminal settings. The focus of her research is on the evaluation of dispute resolution practices and programs, and she has conducted or partnered in several empirical studies. She is the author of numerous journal articles on topics including collaborative law, lawyers' roles inside mediation, and the integration of mediation into court systems.
In 2016, Professor Keet, along with U of S Law colleague Professor Heather Heavin, were awarded the Gonthier Fellowship by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice. This enabled them to complete and present the results of a project on Litigation Risk Analysis, at the CIAJ 2016 fall conference "Civil Justice and Economics: A Matter of Value". This work led to the publication of a number of articles, and, more recently, a book jointly authored with John Lande, on Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment.
Heather Heavin joined the Faculty at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law in 2003. Her research has focused primarily on International and Canadian domestic trade and business law, and more recently in areas of risk assessment.
She is the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, and recently help establish the CREATE Justice research centre at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law. Heather chairs the Graduate Studies Committee at the College of Law, and serves on various committees at the University of Saskatchewan, including the Governance Committee of University Council, The Forensic Centre for Behavioural Science and Justice Studies, and Operations Committee for the SSRL (Social Science Research Laboratory).
Heather clerked to Chief Justice E.D. Bayda of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal (1996-1997), and practised law with the firm of MLT (now MLT Aikins) in their Regina office (1997-2002). Heather completed her LLM at Harvard (2003), her LLB (Magna cum laude, 1996) at the University of Saskatchewan (Gold Medalist) and her B.Sc. (Honours) in 1992, also at the University of Saskatchewan. Heather has been the recipient of the Law Student Association's Teaching Award (2007) and Provost Teaching Award (2014). In 2016, Professor Heavin, along with her colleague Professor Michaela Keet, were awarded the Gonthier Fellowship by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice for their project on Ligation Risk Analysis.
John Lande is the Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law and former director of its LLM Program in Dispute Resolution. He received his J.D. from Hastings College of Law and Ph.D in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He began mediating in 1982 in California. His work focuses on dispute systems design and legal education and has been honored by the CPR Institute. The ABA published the second edition of his book, Lawyering with Planned Early Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money. You can download his publications at http://www.law.missouri.edu/lande/.
