The Negotiator's Fieldbook: The Virtues and Limits of a Kaleidoscope

Here’s an editorial challenge: how to organize an interdisciplinary “fresh look” at what we know or think we know about negotiation, given strong evidence that scholarship and teaching on the topic in law, business, planning, and public policy schools has been limited to a relatively narrow range of integrative and distributive bargaining topics. The Negotiator’s Fieldbook is a substantial and creative response. It culminates a remarkable five-year effort by Christopher Honeyman, a longtime independent scholar-practitioner, and Andrea Kupfer-Schneider, a younger legal scholar based at Marquette University, to convene a wide array of scholars and practitioners from a variety of relevant fields, engage them in discussion, and generate essays that capture the breadth of those discussions.