"Canon of Negotiation" Initiative

Within the larger Broad Field project, the Fieldbook is the product of an effort that could be seen as "major" even if it stood alone: an initiative to develop a reasonably comprehensive canon of negotiation. A collaboration with Marquette University Law School (particularly Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Professor of Law), the canon initiative has quickly drawn contributions from an extraordinary number of the most knowledgeable experts, from a variety of scholarly and practice fields. We have assessed what is known in many fields about negotiation, and the initiative is designed to ensure that what is relevant to all kinds of negotiation does not remain bottled up in one discipline or practice area — a pattern which has cost the field dearly in the past.

Prior to the Fieldbook, the first series of publications from the initiative were in a special issue of the Marquette Law Review (vol. 87, No. 4; see contents below), with 25 articles drawn from practical experience as well as expertise in research and teaching in law, business, social psychology, cultural studies and many other fields. All the articles listed below are available on Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw.
Short 2004 article describing the effort

The Canon initiative has also worked closely with an ambitious pilot effort, funded jointly by the U.S. Department of Education and the European Union's equivalent, toward closer alignment of U.S. and E.U. practices in teaching dispute resolution, including negotiation, arbitration, mediation, and dispute systems design. Partners in the project include three U.S. law schools and three European law and graduate schools.

Cross-disciplinary collaboration at work: Scholars and practitioners mark up each other's proposed topics, and offer assistance (from the first Canon meeting, Marquette Law School, November 2003)

Articles in the first phase: Marquette Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 4 (2004):