The art of legal negotiations

What are legal negotiations?  What is their structure? Is there  one method of successful legal  negotiation? Is it reasonable  to settle disputes through  negotiations? These are some  of the questions which Jerzy  Stelmach and Bartosz Brożek  address in this volume. They  posit that one could   and  should   view the law as  a  negotiable phenomenon ,  thus dispensing with the  constraints imposed by legal  positivism. They claim further  that, as there is no unique key  to legal negotiations, one should  acknowledge that there are  different models of negotiating,  and identify three such possible  models: the argumentation,  the topic-rhetorical and the  economic. The models are  described both from the  theoretical perspective, as well as  by providing catalogues of the  principles of right, effi cacious  and economically effi cient  negotiating.