Law of Negotiation by M. L. Bhargava offers a structured and legally grounded exploration of negotiation and mediation as formal mechanisms of conflict resolution. Moving beyond theory, the book integrates contract law, property law, specific relief, and dispute settlement techniques to demonstrate how negotiation operates not only as a communication strategy but as an enforceable legal tool. With dedicated chapters on specific performance, defences against contractual claims, property transfers, tax disputes, and international conflict management, it bridges legal doctrine with practical negotiation process maps to equip readers with both knowledge and actionable strategies.
Key Features
- Explains alternative conflict management methods with emphasis on negotiation, mediation and arbitration
- Dedicated modules on techniques for natural resource management and international conflicts
- Detailed analysis of contracts enforceable and not enforceable through specific performance
- Covers defences and personal bars to contractual relief with case references
- Includes crucial topics on lease, transfer by ostensible owner and unauthorised transferees
- Discusses recovery and dispossession of immovable property through legal and negotiated means
- Provides process maps for consensual negotiations for practical application
- Illustrates how negotiation and ADR methods are used in ISR-Taxpayer disputes
This book is ideal for advocates, judges, mediators, corporate negotiators, tax practitioners, academicians, and law students seeking a doctrinal yet practice-oriented understanding of negotiation within Indian legal proceedings.
Table of Contents:
1. General Introduction
2. Alternative Conflict Management Methods-Negotiation and Mediation Techniques
3. Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource Management
4. Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contracts Connected with Trust Enforceable
5. Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contract Enforceable
6. Contracts not Specifically Enforceable
7. Defences Respecting Suits for Relief based on Contract
8. Negotiation or Mediation-An Exploration of Factors affecting the Choice of Conflict Management in International Conflict
9. Lease of Immovable Property
10. Personal Bars to Relief
11. Process Map for Consensual Negotiations
12. Sale How Made?
13. Suit by Person Dispossessed of Immovable Property
14. Specific Performance of Part of Contract
15. Transfer by Ostensible Owner
16. Transfer by Unauthorised Person Who Subsequently Acquires Interest in Property Transferred
17. Recovery of Specific Immovable Property
18. Using Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration to Resolve ISR-Taxpayer Disputes
