Mag. Anne-Karin Grill
030198 KU Mediation for Lawyers
2 Stunde(n), 3 ECTS-Punkte
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
limited places are available: 24
Blocklehrveranstaltung
Preparatory meeting (compulsory)
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 6:30 p.m. | SEM 10
Session 1
Friday, 12 October 2018 (2:00 pm – 6:00 pm) | SEM 43
Saturday, 13 October 2018 (10:00 am – 12:00 am) | SEM 43
Juridicum
Session 2
Monday, 29 October 2018 (2:00 pm – 6:00 pm) | SEM 43
Juridicum
Session 3
Tuesday, 13 November 2018 (2:00 pm – 6:00 pm) | SEM 41
Juridicum
Session 4
Monday, 3 December 2018 (2:00 pm – 6:00 pm) | SEM 63
Juridicum
Submission Deadlines for papers:
- First Assignment:
- Self-Evaluation Paper:
Application: only from Sa 08.09.2018 00:01 until Mo 24.09.2018 via U:SPACE!
Prerequisites
- Completion of civil and procedural law coursework
- Comprehensive command of both spoken and written English (completion of prior foreign language coursework particularly welcome)
Course Materials
- Roger Fisher/William Ury, Getting to Yes – Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In
- Thomas Wälde, Efficient Management of Transnational Disputes – Mutual Gain by Mediation or Joint Loss in Litigation
- Richard Hill, Non-Adversarial Mediation
- Christian Bürhing-Uhle/Lars Kirchhoff/Matthias Scherer, The Legal Framework for International ADR
The contributions by Wälde, Hill and Bürhing-Uhle et al are available for download at Kluwer Law International (please refer to the database service of the University of Vienna at http://dbs.univie.ac.at/)
Role play instructions and further reading will be made available by the instructor.
Course Description
This course offers a practice-oriented introduction to the basic principles of mediation from a user’s perspective. It is addressed to aspiring legal professionals wishing to develop and train their problem-solving and negotiation skills. The course is designed to help students to advance their intuition in order to structure negotiation processes and to develop their own basic negotiation toolkit. At the end of the course students will be able to do the following:
- analyze a problem both in terms of questions of fact and law
- identify goals, interests, and alternatives to a negotiated agreement,
- devise a negotiation strategy
- give oral presentations of legal and other arguments in a concise and convincing manner
develop criteria that would make a negotiated agreement legitimate, analyze the parties' relationship with a view to defining a communication strategy, explore levels of commitment and authority
Grading Criteria
Role Play Participation: 50%
Short Paper (5 pages): 50%
Teaching Methodology
The course offered makes use of traditional learning methods as well as new training techniques (role plays developed by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School). As negotiation is a skill developed through appropriate and purposeful practice, there will be little lecture in this course. The instructor will be active in observing and evaluating the process of learning and will provide feedback in the form of correctives (comments and demonstration) to help students improve.