Environmental Negotiation and Mediation

Environmental Negotiation and Mediation - Professor Jacob Bush

• Course Number: LAW-352
• Course Type: Foundational
• Credits: 2
• Enrollment Limit: 20
• Description:

  The Environmental Negotiation and Mediation class offers a tour of the environmental, natural resources, and public policy negotiation world, from two-party real estate “green development” discussions to multi-party environmental justice policy issues to international natural resources mediations. There is a focus on hands-on learning and practical skills development. The course is designed to build students’ mutual-gains and cross-cultural negotiation skills throughout the semester, through participating in a multitude of simulations.

  Students will experience different negotiation perspectives first-hand by taking on the roles of attorney, client, task force member and national delegate, mediator. The first-hand experience will allow for focus on problem-solving approaches and gaining a sense for the dynamics of complex negotiations involving multiple stakeholders.

• Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite for this class, which is designed to complement the Alternative Dispute Resolution class and other dispute resolution offerings at Lewis & Clark.
• Evaluation Method: Participation in class discussions and negotiations, written products (negotiation preparatory materials and reflective journals), and a final exam.
• Capstone: no
• WIE: no