Lawrence Susskind is the Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at Massachusetts Insitute of Technology as well as Head of Environmental Policy and Planning and Director of the MIT-Harvard Program on Negotiation. His current research interests include a comparative analysis of European, American and Japanese environmental regulatory strategies and their impact on the development and use of environmental technologies and the analysis of the use of assisted negotiation to resolve land use disputes in the United States. He is the author of several boork and journal articles and in 2006 he published Breaking Robert's Rules: The Consensus Building Approach to Getting Group Agreement ( Oxford University Press). Larry Crump is a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University in Australia where he teaches courses such as International Business Negotiation and International Negotiation Skills. His research interests include multiparty and multilaterlal negotiation theory and practice, negotiating Free Trade Agreements and Japanese-Australian relations. HE has authored several books and book chapters as well as published in journals such as International Negotiation, Japan Journal of Negotiation and The Journal of Management Development.