Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-22-2014
Abstract
Using Andrea Schneider’s pithy observation as a jumping off point, I noted confusion about the traditional terminology about lawyer- and client-centered counseling, positional interest-based negotiation, and evaluative and facilitative mediation. Many of us are pretty sloppy in our use of these terms. For example, people often think of client-centered counseling, interest-based negotiation, and facilitative mediation basically as being nice and the opposite approaches as being tough (if not naughty). So in my classes, I briefly defined the terms so that students recognize them and I described the problems with them. Then I warned them not to use the terms and instead focus on the concrete behaviors that these labels are supposed to represent.
Recommended Citation
John Lande,
“LABELS SUCK”
(2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/fac_blogs/43