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Let's Make a Deal : Understanding the Negotiation Process in Ordinary Litigation by Herbert M. Kritzer (1991, Trade Paperback)

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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press. Language: English. Number of Pages: 220. Publication Date: 2011-10-06. ISBN13: 9780299128241.

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PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-100299128245

ISBN-139780299128241

eBay Product ID (ePID)89316

Product Key Features

Number of Pages220 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLet's Make a Deal : Understanding the Negotiation Process in Ordinary Litigation

SubjectCommunication Studies, General, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Publication Year1991

TypeTextbook

AuthorHerbert M. Kritzer

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.5 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN90-050648

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal347.73/9

SynopsisAmericans have a long-standing reputation for relying upon the legal system to deal with all manner of problems and issues; litigiousness is often seen as an American disease. Yet 99% of legal cases started in the courts never even make it through the courthouse door, because formal court action is never initiated. Instead, participants reach an out-of-court settlement. What does this dominance of negotiated settlement over adjudication mean? Has "Equal Justice Under Law" given way to "Let's Make a Deal"? So far, most of the evidence from judges and lawyers, policy makers and researchers has been anecdotal, and the public image of complex legal machinations and back-room deals derives from a few spectacular and atypical cases. Based on findings from the Civil Litigation Research Project, begun in 1979 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Herbert Kritzer has constructed a coherent picture of the routine of ordinary litigation. He shows, for instance, that the vast bulk of "ordinary cases" that account for most claims in federal and state courts are rather "cut-and-dried" affairs that deal with relatively modest amounts of money--important information for the proponents of litigation reform. He examines the economics of bargaining, for both lawyers and their clients, and the extent to which litigation is governed by monetary concerns. Evaluating the models of negotiation and game theory that are currently in vogue, Kritzer posits a more useful typology for understanding what actually happens when lawyers, plaintiffs, and defendants sit down to "make a deal." His illuminating insights into the divergent interests of attorneys and clients correct many of the assumptions of standard economic theories of litigation and bargaining., Lorine Niedecker (1903 70) was a poet of extraordinary talent whose life and work were long enveloped in obscurity. After her death in 1970, poet Basil Bunting wrote that she was the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced . . . only beginning to be appreciated when she died. Her poverty and arduous family life, the isolated home in Wisconsin that provided rich imagery for her work, and her unusual acquaintances have all contributed to Niedecker s enigmatic reputation. Margot Peters brings Lorine Niedecker s life out of the shadows in this first full biography of the poet. She depicts Niedecker s watery world on Blackhawk Island (near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin), where she was born and spent most of her life. A brief college career cut short by family obligations and an equally brief marriage were followed in 1931 by the start of a life-changing correspondence and complicated thirty-five-year friendship with modernist poet Louis Zukofsky, who connected Niedecker to a literary lifeline of distant poets and magazines. Supporting herself by turns as a hospital scrubwoman and proofreader for a dairy journal, Niedecker made a late marriage to an industrial painter, which gave her time to write and publish her work in the final decades of her life. During her lifetime, Niedecker s poetry was praised by a relatively small literary circle, including Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, Denise Levetov, and Allen Ginsberg. Since her death much more of her surviving writings have been published, including a comprehensive edition of collected works and two volumes of correspondence. Through Margot Peters s compelling biography, readers will discover Lorine Niedecker as a poet of spare and brilliant verse and a woman whose talent and grit carried her through periods of desperation and despair. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians "

LC Classification NumberKF9084.K75 1991