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University of Missouri School of Law

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1985

Mediation

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Mediator Expectations And Professional Training: Implications For Teaching Dispute Resolution, Raymond Albert Jan 1985

Mediator Expectations And Professional Training: Implications For Teaching Dispute Resolution, Raymond Albert

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Thus, this study explores the following questions within the context of landlord-tenant disputes: What are mediator role expectations? Do these vary depending on the mediator's professional training? What are the implications for the teaching of disputes resolution?


Patterns Of Bias In Mediation, Christopher Honeyman Jan 1985

Patterns Of Bias In Mediation, Christopher Honeyman

Journal of Dispute Resolution

The last few years' discussion of mediation is imbued with a certain "born again" quality. The enthusiasm is understandable in view of the attractive features of this process; but it has obscured the facts that no process works well for everyone, and that for some people, mediation is worse than useless. In view of the general tide of professional opinion that mediation is a "better" process for resolving disputes, qualifications and reservations are easily enough overlooked, and "better for whom?" is not a particularly popular question