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The Lawyer Turns Peacemaker, Richard C. Reuben
The Lawyer Turns Peacemaker, Richard C. Reuben
Faculty Publications
No doubt millions of people and businesses have benefited from simpler, less stressful modes of dispute resolution. Moreover, ADR is primed for much greater growth, as witnessed by the breathtaking expansion of court-related programs, the rush of lawyers and nonlawyers alike to mediation training seminars, and the pledge of thousands of businesses and large law firms to consider ADR options. But the child born of necessity is still, at best, teetering between adolescence and adulthood. For all of its potential to reshape the ways problems are solved, it still shows a dark side-coercion, conflicts, competency issues and commercialism -that leaves …
Danger-Inequality Of Resources Present: Can The Environmental Mediation Process Provide An Effective Answer, Elaine Smith
Danger-Inequality Of Resources Present: Can The Environmental Mediation Process Provide An Effective Answer, Elaine Smith
Journal of Dispute Resolution
The environmental dispute resolution field has grown rapidly since its advent in 1973, when two mediators, Gerald Cormick and Jane McCarthy, undertook the first documented attempt to settle an environmental dispute.' Since this initial effort, the use of mediation in environmental disputes has grown rapidly, leading to the continual evolution and improvement of the field. Despite this progress, mediation in environmental disputes remains as it began: a hotly contested issue, with prominent and influential commentators vigorously debating whether it is an appropriate device to resolve environmental disputes