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Identifying Real Dichotomies Underlying The False Dichotomy: Twenty-First Century Mediation In An Eclectic Regime, Jeffrey W. Stemple
Identifying Real Dichotomies Underlying The False Dichotomy: Twenty-First Century Mediation In An Eclectic Regime, Jeffrey W. Stemple
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Preparation for the University of Missouri's lecture on dispute resolution and consideration of commentary prompted additional thoughts on the issue and a more refined perspective on the issue of facilitation-versus-evaluation and its role in the continued development of modem ADR. Rather than attempt to fine-tune a completed article, this reply will address the additional perspectives as well as note points of distinct conflict or quibble with commentators. First, this reply provides some additional assessment framing the facilitative-evaluative debate as well as a modified brief in support of the legitimacy of some elements of evaluation in the eclectic mediation that is …
Mediating Citizen Complaints Against The Police: An Exploratory Study , Samuel Walker, Carol Archbold
Mediating Citizen Complaints Against The Police: An Exploratory Study , Samuel Walker, Carol Archbold
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This article examines the subject of mediating citizen complaints against the police. It reviews the history of citizen complaints, presents data on existing police complaint mediation programs, and discusses the potential contributions of mediation to police accountability.
Evaluation And Facilitation: Moving Past Either/Or, Richard Birke
Evaluation And Facilitation: Moving Past Either/Or, Richard Birke
Journal of Dispute Resolution
In this essay, I argue that there is no such thing as a purely facilitative mediation of a legal dispute. Neither is there such a thing as a purely evaluative mediation of a legal dispute. Mediation of legal disputes is, by its nature, always facilitative and evaluative. The evaluative-facilitative divide is an artificial artifact of history. Following this introduction, I offer a brief description of the development of the field of legal mediation, and I attempt to place the Riskin grid in historical context. I then hope to push the debate toward a new moment, one in which all mediation …
Toward More Sophisticated Mediation Theory, John Lande
Toward More Sophisticated Mediation Theory, John Lande
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Some of these benefits are due to the particular arguments of facilitation proponents, while others involve a general development of the field resulting from the debate. The first benefit is that facilitation proponents have highlighted how mediation can promote many important values such as party self-determination, and they have cautioned about risks of unfairness created by mediator evaluation as described in Part III. Second, the facilitation-evaluation debate has stimulated a better appreciation of the appropriateness of these techniques in different types of cases, as described in Part IV. Third, the debate has contributed to reducing ill-considered evaluation practice, as discussed …
Getting The Faith: Why Business Lawyers And Executives Believe In Mediation, John M. Lande
Getting The Faith: Why Business Lawyers And Executives Believe In Mediation, John M. Lande
Faculty Publications
Do you believe in mediation? That may seem like an odd question. Normally one thinks of ‘believing in‘ (or having faith in) things like magic, God, or the market. These are typically things that are beyond verifiable human knowledge (such as magic and God) and/or deeply held values (such as whether the market is a better mechanism than government for managing the flow of goods and services). At first blush, one might not think that mediation would fall into either category. There have been numerous empirical studies about many different aspects of mediation, so one can confidently say, for example, …
German Law Paves The Way For Mandatory Mediation, Nadja Alexander
German Law Paves The Way For Mandatory Mediation, Nadja Alexander
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Effective as of 1 January 2000, the Federal Government of Germany has introduced legislation permitting all German states (Laender) to introduce mandatory court-connected mediation with respect to certain kinds of civil disputes.
Adr, The Judiciary, & Justice: Coming To Terms With The Alternatives, Erin Ryan
Adr, The Judiciary, & Justice: Coming To Terms With The Alternatives, Erin Ryan
Erin Ryan
[This student note is the closing chapter of the Harvard Law Review “Developments in the Law” issue for the year 2000, devoted to developments in civil litigation.] Any discussion of recent developments in civil litigation must address the virtual revolution that has taken place regarding alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Attorneys have witnessed a steady growth in their clients' recourse to ADR in place of lawsuits, and ADR is increasingly incorporated into the litigation process by the judiciary itself—in the form of court-annexed arbitration, mediation, summary jury trials, early neutral evaluation, and judicial settlement conferences. “Alternative” models of dispute resolution have …
Toward More Sophisticated Mediation Theory, John M. Lande
Toward More Sophisticated Mediation Theory, John M. Lande
Faculty Publications
In the lead article in this symposium, Professor Jeffrey Stempel provides a very thoughtful analysis of the mediation field. He focuses on the debate over facilitative and evaluative mediation and he is critical of many of the arguments made by proponents of facilitative mediation. I have expressed some similar concerns, and I generally agree with his analysis (with a quibble here and there). I do think that the facilitation-evaluation debate has been productive (though admittedly wearisome), and that proponents of facilitative mediation deserve more credit than he gives them in his article.
Promoting The Best Interests Of Children Whose Parents Are Divorcing: The Next Steps For Arkansas, Kenneth S. Gallant
Promoting The Best Interests Of Children Whose Parents Are Divorcing: The Next Steps For Arkansas, Kenneth S. Gallant
Faculty Scholarship
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Preserving The Integrity Of Mediation Through The Adoption Of Ethical Rules For Lawyer-Mediators, Maureen Laflin
Preserving The Integrity Of Mediation Through The Adoption Of Ethical Rules For Lawyer-Mediators, Maureen Laflin
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Identifying Real Dichotomies Underlying The False Dichotomy: Twenty-First Century Mediation In An Eclectic Regime, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Identifying Real Dichotomies Underlying The False Dichotomy: Twenty-First Century Mediation In An Eclectic Regime, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
Some people (lawyers, scholars, judges, dispute resolvers, policymakers) are more concerned about fidelity to procedural protocols while others are more concerned with the substantive rules governing disputes and substantive outcomes. Those in the dispute resolution community preferring facilitation tend to be proceduralists. For them, the observance of proper procedure is a high goal, perhaps the dominant goal. They reason, often implicitly, that adherence to the rules of procedure is the essence of neutrality, fairness, and the proper role of a dispute resolving apparatus. At some level, usually subconscious, there is a post-modern philosophical aspect of this preference. Because humans cannot …
The Inevitability Of The Eclectic: Liberating Adr From Ideology, Jeffrey W. Stempel
The Inevitability Of The Eclectic: Liberating Adr From Ideology, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
The problem with viewing facilitation as the only legitimate form of mediation, of course, is that it borders on tautology: mediation is nonevaluative, therefore any evaluation in mediation must be impermissible. Although this view remains strongly held in many quarters, it appears to be in retreat, both within the mediation community and in the legal community at large. Courts and commentators have shown increasing favor toward some evaluative or advising component of mediation. More important, the eclectic style appears to be what takes place in the metaphorical trenches of mediation practice (although sound empirical data is necessarily hard to obtain …
Is Binding Arbitration A Form Of Adr?: An Argument That The Term "Adr" Has Begun To Outlive Its Usefulness, Jean R. Sternlight
Is Binding Arbitration A Form Of Adr?: An Argument That The Term "Adr" Has Begun To Outlive Its Usefulness, Jean R. Sternlight
Scholarly Works
Professor Frank Sander has, for many years, been one of the most prescient commentators on the alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") movement. His 1976 Pound Conference speech has been identified by many as marking the birth of the modern ADR phenomena. That speech, which compared some of the pros and cons of litigation and an array of other dispute resolution processes, has been summarized as proposing the concept of the "multi-door courthouse." In contrast, Professor Sander's more recent and very interesting review of the present and future of ADR makes little attempt to distinguish between mediation and binding arbitration, the two …
Variations In Mediation: How - And Why - Legal Mediators Change Styles In The Course Of A Case, Dwight Golann
Variations In Mediation: How - And Why - Legal Mediators Change Styles In The Course Of A Case, Dwight Golann
Journal of Dispute Resolution
I will seek to show in this article that professional legal mediators in fact use a variety of styles, and that they change their approach constantly during a single mediation, even within a single meeting with a disputant. I will argue that these stylistic changes are the norm rather than the exception in the mediation of civil legal disputes and that the use of evaluative techniques is also frequent, even among those mediators who favor a broad, facilitative approach. Finally, I will describe the contrasting styles that the filmed mediators used in the same dispute and argue that these variations …
Concern Over Confidentiality In Mediation - An In-Depth Look At The Protection Provided By The Proposed Uniform Mediation Act, The, Mindy D. Rufenacht
Concern Over Confidentiality In Mediation - An In-Depth Look At The Protection Provided By The Proposed Uniform Mediation Act, The, Mindy D. Rufenacht
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This Comment will investigate the historical problems with confidentiality in mediation and evaluate the Proposed Uniform Mediation Act's (hereinafter "U.M.A." or "Act") approaches to remedying confidentiality issues. The reader should carefully note that the Uniform Mediation Act is in an on-going drafting phase at this time, and the content of the Act's drafts discussed herein are not final and are for discussion purposes only. This Comment's discussion will cover confidentiality in disclosure with respect to parties, waiver, and a mediator's duty of non-disclosure. This Comment will also compare the mechanisms the U.M.A. has put in place to govern confidentiality to …
Religious Dimensions Of Mediation, F. Matthews-Giba
Religious Dimensions Of Mediation, F. Matthews-Giba
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article takes an in-depth look at the religious roots of mediation, particularly emphasizing the influence of the Franciscan movement. It also discusses the religious roots of mediation in the United States, various strategies and styles of mediation, the religious motivation for settlement agreements, and multi-cultured mediation.
Religious Dimensions Of Mediation, F. Matthews-Giba
Religious Dimensions Of Mediation, F. Matthews-Giba
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article takes an in-depth look at the religious roots of mediation, particularly emphasizing the influence of the Franciscan movement. It also discusses the religious roots of mediation in the United States, various strategies and styles of mediation, the religious motivation for settlement agreements, and multi-cultured mediation.
Understanding Conflict And Human Capacity: The Role Of Premises In Mediation Training, Robert A. Baruch Bush, Sally G. Pope
Understanding Conflict And Human Capacity: The Role Of Premises In Mediation Training, Robert A. Baruch Bush, Sally G. Pope
Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship
In this article, the authors, point out that underlying mediator practices and techniques, there are deeper premises and values that guide and shape practice. The authors argue that mediation training should include articulation and explanation of the premises that underlie the transformative orientation to mediation practice and give examples of how these premises can be conveyed within an overall training design, and how doing so enriches the teaching of skills and techniques themselves.