Law of Negotiation

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.

General Introduction
Alternative Conflict Management Methods-Negotiation and Mediation Techniques
Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource Management
Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contracts Connected with Trust Enforceable
Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contract Enforceable
Contracts not Specifically Enforceable
Defences Respecting Suits for Relief based on Contract
Negotiation or Mediation-An Exploration of Factors affecting the Choice of Conflict Management in International Conflict
Lease of Immovable Property
Personal Bars to Relief
Process Map for Consensual Negotiations
Sale How Made?
Suit by Person Dispossessed of Immovable Property
Specific Performance of Part of Contract
Transfer by Ostensible Owner
Transfer by Unauthorised Person Who Subsequently Acquires Interest in Property Transferred
Recovery of Specific Immovable Property
Using Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration to Resolve ISR-Taxpayer Disputes