Hi folks. 

A few weeks ago I taught an inter-session course at Hamline about Cooperative Practice and had a blast.  I posted the syllabus on our website, Cooperative Practice: A New Technique to Negotiate Cases Successfully, which you can access by clicking on the title (if you email hasn’t stripped the coding) or by going to http://www.law.missouri.edu/aalsadr/DR_syllabi.htm and scrolling down to the “other courses.”

Although this course particularly focuses on Cooperative practice, it discusses Collaborative practice a lot – and it provides a useful frame for talking about ADR and lawyering generally, as you can see from the list of issues described in the syllabus.  For example, although it is relatively easy in theory to balance lawyers’ duty of diligent representation and negotiating constructively, lawyers have a hard time with this in litigation, Collaborative, and Cooperative practice.  (For more info about Cooperative and Collaborative Practice, you can see my short handout, Frequently Asked Questions About Cooperative Practice, including Why Should You Care? , available at http://www.law.missouri.edu/lande/publications.htm#ccl .)

I suspect that most of you won’t be able to teach a whole course about these issues, but you might want to include some discussion or simulations.  If you are interested, please email me privately and I will be happy to send you my outline and simulations and you could pick elements you are particularly interested in.  (If so, let me know if you prefer Word, WordPerfect, or pdf.)

There is a growing literature on the issues covered in the course (reflected in part by the readings in the syllabus), so if you are looking for a topic for your scholarly agenda or want to give students ideas for papers or law review notes, you might consider the issues and readings in the syllabus.