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Mediator Accountability: Responding To Fairness Concerns, Judith L. Maute
Mediator Accountability: Responding To Fairness Concerns, Judith L. Maute
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Mediation and newer forms of dispute resolution provide much-needed options to the traditional litigation forum. The adversary process is too contentious, expensive and time-consuming for many disputes. Nevertheless, some thoughtful lawyers and legal scholars voice concern that mediation may cut short legal developments on important issues of public concern and reinforce existing power disparities between parties.' Traditional commitment to mediator neutrality may undermine protection of parties' legal rights.
Panel Discussion Symposia: 1990: I - Accountability For State-Sponsored Human Rights Violations; Ii - The Circumvention Of Accountability; Iii - Achieving Accountability By Alternative Means, Kenneth Anderson, Ruti Teitel, Roberto Garraton Merino, Felipe Michelini, Alejandro Garro, Jaime Malamud-Goti
Panel Discussion Symposia: 1990: I - Accountability For State-Sponsored Human Rights Violations; Ii - The Circumvention Of Accountability; Iii - Achieving Accountability By Alternative Means, Kenneth Anderson, Ruti Teitel, Roberto Garraton Merino, Felipe Michelini, Alejandro Garro, Jaime Malamud-Goti
Presentations
Dedicated to the Memory of Owen M. KupferschmidAs the program indicates, the next panel addresses the issues of punishment, amnesties and pardons. The last ten years have witnessed in Latin America and other regions of the world, transitions from military regimes to democratically elected regimes. This shift has brought a call for a response by the legal systems to the gross abuses of prior military dictatorships and to the massive violations of basic human rights, including disappearances and torture.' This response took the form of trials of military officers in Argentina and other places.2 Amid this call for trials and …
A Proposed Check On The Charging Discretion Of Wisconsin Prosecutors, Wayne A. Logan
A Proposed Check On The Charging Discretion Of Wisconsin Prosecutors, Wayne A. Logan
Scholarly Publications
With the emergence of the increasingly vocal victims' rights movement and a more general punitive emphasis in criminal justice, the issue of prosecutorial discretion in the decision of whether to charge a suspect with a crime has assumed paramount importance. In two recent cases the Wisconsin Supreme Court addressed the fundamental question of whether it is the responsibility of the local prosecutor or the court to charge a suspect with a crime. This Comment examines these two cases, Unnamed Petitioners v. Connors, decided in 1987, and State v. Unnamed Defendant, decided in 1989. The Comment concludes that the charging mechanism …
Accountability To The Law, Walter F. Mondale