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Mediation Paradigms And Professional Identities: Can Mediators Activate A New Movement For Justice?, John M. Lande
Mediation Paradigms And Professional Identities: Can Mediators Activate A New Movement For Justice?, John M. Lande
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This article, written early in the modern ADR era, provided a framework for developing the mediation field. It begins by elaborating William Simon’s critique of the “ideology of advocacy.” Simon argues that the adversary system is supposed to foster values of individuality, autonomy, responsibility, and dignity, but it often undermines those values in practice. This article catalogs a “parade of horribles” experienced by disputants, attorneys, judges, and the public. These include unequal access to justice, procedural rules that frustrate substantive justice, a narrow set of available remedies, a game psychology undermines respect for law and justice, parties’ alienating experience in …
Preface By The Dean, Dale A. Whitman
Preface By The Dean, Dale A. Whitman
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It will no surprise to readers of this Journal that in recent years there has been an enormous increase of interest by lawyers in non-litigous methods of resolving disputes. We have seen a vast proliferation of newsletters, magazines, bar association committees, and other organs.