Matz and Ebner consider the impending collision between teachers’ strong desire to use role-play and other simulation exercises, and the rise of online teaching, in which the students may never see each other. They outline a series of tools that might bring the central advantages of using...

Key to success in negotiation is managing and enhancing relationships. This concept can be difficult to convey in short-term executive training courses where students have little time for relational development. Not to worry: the authors assert that by strategically using online communication...

Interpersonal trust is a necessary element for successful negotiation and mediation process. Conducting those processes online, however, necessitates navigating an environment in which trust is significantly diminished. This chapter explores the challenges to trust in the online world, and...

The past few decades have seen explosive growth in the degree to which persistent and costly disputes are being dealt with constructively by a range of processes for alternative dispute resolution (ADR). These developments have greatly affected, inter alia, the way conflict is handled inside...

This paper adopts a systems-design approach to focus courts and lawyers on the hitherto unexamined question of how involving lawyers in the design, development, and implementation of online dispute resolution (ODR) programs, will strengthen ODR justice outcomes and court-delivered justice...

BeatleMania! is a simulation for studying and experiencing online dispute resolution. Two parties to an eBay transaction gone awry, regarding the sale of Beatles memorabilia, set out to resolve their differences with the assistance of a third party mediator. This simulation is structured to...