CommentsBargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case for ADR as a Field of Study
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Mnookin and Kornhauser’s Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law is a critically important work for the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) field because it legitimized the study of negotiation within the legal academy. It did so by tethering bargaining to jurisprudence. Without Mnookin and Kornhauser’s insight that bargaining is a function of legal rules, the law remains confined to its portrayal in a standard first-year curriculum....