The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
PON Live! Book Talk
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Negotiation:
Very Short Introduction to Negotiation
with:
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Chancellor’s and Distinguished Professor of Law (and Political Science)
University of California Irvine
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public
About the book:
Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow will discuss her latest book Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction that synthesizes 50 years of theory, practical applications, and examples to describe the four major analytic approaches to negotiation. These in turn, should lead to different behavioral applications for the different contexts in which negotiations occur: interpersonal, legal, economic, business, diplomatic, international and now with online and computer adaptations.
Menkel-Meadow writes that good negotiators seek to make the world better than they found it but also know “win-win” does not describe what we do—we hope to solve problems, develop creative solutions to complex and troublesome situations, as well as make good and lasting new transactions and relationships. We negotiate whenever we need someone else to accomplish something.
Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction is now part of Oxford University’s distinguished Very Short Introduction series of books designed to make all human knowledge accessible.
About the Speaker:
Carrie Menkel-Meadow is Chancellor’s and Distinguished Professor of Law (and Political Science) at the University of California Irvine. One of the founders of the dispute resolution field, she is the author or editor of over 20 books and 200 articles on Negotiation, Dispute Resolution, Mediation and other subjects including Feminist Theory, Law and Social Science, Restorative and Transitional Justice, and Legal Ethics. She has taught in over 25 countries and at Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA Law Schools and many other universities. She has trained and consulted for the World Bank, the Federal Judicial Center, the United Nations, the International Red Cross and many other international, national and state institutions. She has been a mediator in large and small-scale public and private legal matters for over 35 years. She is an award winning (American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar, American Bar Association, first Distinguished Scholar in Dispute Resolution, Center for Public Resources, Best Scholarly Article (3 times) ) scholar, recipient of many honorary doctorates, and conceiver of the idea of “the lawyer as Problem-Solver.” In 1981, Menkel-Meadow began writing about Negotiation and was among the first to teach Negotiation in American law schools.
