This prize winning work provides a new and inclusive means of conceptualizing law and legal relations across the world, by placing national laws in the broader context of legal traditions. All major legal traditions of the world are discussed, compared and analyzed.

Designed to deal with the practical operation of the mediation process, with particular reference to the skills and techniques which can be used by mediators to assist the parties' decision-making process. A practical text written in plain English, it incorporates the use of diagrams and tables.