BLAW 640 - Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution

Credits: 1.5
Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in IUP’s MBA program
Focuses on advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution principles and the application of those principles in simulated negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations. Emphasizes international business disputes and how to effectively overcome the barriers to the successful resolution of such disputes as a result of cultural issues and differences in governing laws and regulations. Concludes with a simulation taking students through all steps of a complex dispute, including identification of the dispute parameters, an information negotiation with the other parties, the mediation of the dispute with an independent mediator, and finally the arbitration of the dispute before a panel of three arbitrators. Dispute resolution ethics will be explored throughout the course.