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List of Elizabeth Bader's Publications
Publications on Mediation
Date Publication Description
2010

“The Psychology of Mediation: Issues of Self and Identity in Mediation and the IDR Cycle,”10 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 183 (2010).

Elizabeth's article is now in final form. Contact Elizabeth by email at elizabeth@elizabethbader.com if you wish to review a copy of this article. For a note from Elizabeth, press here.

This article is also excerpted in part in Bader, The Psychology of Mediation, Part I: The Mediator's Issues of Self and Identity, on mediate.com. To view this article, press here.

For an abstract of the full article: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1086223

For information about an upcoming MCLE program discussing the article, press here

The first article to identify the psychological pattern of inflation (overconfidence), deflation and realistic resolution that typically occurs in mediation and negotiation.

Issues of identity such as the need to "save face" during mediation examined by drawing from psychoanalysis, neuroscience and other viewpoints.

2009 Confidentiality in Collaborative Cases After Estate of Thottam, " http://www.mediate.com/articles/badere1.cfm

Mediation confidentiality analyzed.

 

2005 “Mediation Confidentiality,” Chapter 7 in:
"A Litigator’s Guide to Effective Use of ADR in California (Continuing Education of the Bar, 2005).

Press here for Table of Contents. Available from www.ceb.com.

California law on mediation confidentiality analyzed. Also includes a brief discussion of federal law and tips for litigators. 
2004 “Mediation Confidentiality: What Litigators Need to Know After Rojas v. Superior Court,” 26(5) Cal. Civ. Litig. Rep., Oct. 2004, 189-194.

Press here to view a copy of this article. Reproduced with permission from CEB.
Analyzes the impact of the California Supreme Court’s Rojas v. Superior Court (2004) 33 Cal.4th 407, on mediation practice. 
2004

Rojas v. Superior Court, 26(15) Ins. Litig. Rep., Sept.10, 2004, p. 536

Mediation confidentiality for insurance coverage litigators, with discussion of causation standard.
2004 “Defects in Construction: Will California's Mediation Confidentiality Statutes Still Remain Standing after Rojas v. Superior Court?” 14(3) Cal. Construction L. Rep., 2004, 97-103 Mediation confidentiality for construction defect litigators.
2004 “Confidentiality in Insurance Coverage Mediation: Will It Survive Rojas v. Superior Court?,” 26(2) Ins. Litig. Rep., Feb. 2004, 37-51.

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Predicts the Rojas case, and analyzes mediation confidentiality issues relating to insurance.
2003 “Using Hard Facts to Clarify Good Law: A Principled Approach to Rojas v. Superior Court and the Interpretation of California’s Mediation Confidentiality Statutes (Evid. Code §§ 1115 et seq.)," XXIV (10) California Tort Rep., Nov. – Dec. 2003, pp. 343-363.
Article on Rojas v. Superior Court which closely predicts the California Supreme Court’s later opinion. 



Publications on Insurance
2004

“Confidentiality in Insurance Coverage Mediation: Will It Survive Rojas v. Superior Court?,” Ins. Litig. Rep., 26(2), Feb. 2004,  pp. 37-51.

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Mediation confidentiality article with emphasis on insurance mediation. Predicts reasoning and decision in Rojas v. Superior Court.
1989 "Strategies for Defeating and Defending the 1973 Pollution Exclusion," 11(3) Ins. Litig. Rep., March 1989, 75 - 87.
Decisions on the pollution exclusion throughout the country are analyzed.
1987

"Automobile Insurance," Chapter 50 in: California Insurance Law & Practice (Matthew Bender 1987). Updated by publisher.

Chapter on automobile insurance in treatise.
1985

"California Insurer's Duty to Defend:  How Far Does It Extend?," 1985, 52 Ins. Counsel J. 252.


The duty to defend. Cited by the Court of Appeal in Garvey v. State Farm (1986) 191 Cal.App.3d 1248, 1255 fn. 6. The California Supreme Court later granted review in Garvey and issued the important opinion in Garvey v. State Farm (1989) 48 Cal.3d 395.



Publications on Civil Litigation & Procedure/Anti-SLAPP Statute
2003

“Appeal From Superior Court Judgment,” Chapter 14 in: California Administrative Mandamus (Continuing Education of the Bar, 2003).

California appellate procedure for litigators of administrative mandamus actions.
1991

“California’s Powerful Anti-SLAPP Statute: Litigating After Briggs v. Eden Council for Hope & Opportunity” (May 1999) 21(3) CEB Civil Litig. Rep., (1991) 1, 82-87. With Mark Goldowitz.

Discussion of Briggs v. Eden Council for Hope & Opportunity (1999) 19 Cal.4th 1106.
1994-
2001
California Administrative Mandamus, Updates. (Continuing Education of the Bar Updates, 1994-2001). Law of administrative mandamus (a form of
appeal to the superior court used to challenge decisions in hospital peer review proceedings and other administrative proceedings).
1989 "Homeless Odyssey," California Lawyer, October 1989. A short story by Elizabeth on her work with the homeless.



Medicolegal Publications
1979

Traumatic Medicine & Surgery for the Attorney, 1979. Executive Editor. (Matthew Bender & Co., 1979.)

A treatise for lawyers on medicine.
1979 In Matthew Bender's Gray's Attorneys' Textbook of Medicine and Courtroom Medicine: Editor/writer on medicine.

Same.

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