Dispute Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision-Making (Law in Context) - Softcover

Roberts, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521676010 ISBN 13: 9780521676014

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This wide-ranging study considers the primary forms of decision-making - negotiation, mediation, and umpiring - in the context of rapidly changing discourses and practices of civil justice across many jurisdictions. Much contemporary discussion in this field, and associated projects of institutional design, are taking place under the wide ranging but imprecise label of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). If a common linking theme is sought, the authors argue that this must lie in a general shift of priorities as between judgement and settlement in ideological terms. This new edition brings together and analyses a wide range of materials dealing with dispute processes and the current debates on civil justice. With the help of a selection of texts beyond those ordinarily found in the emerging alternative dispute resolution literature it provides a broad, comparative perspective on modes of handling civil disputes, with the principal focus on the central processes of negotiation and mediation.

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About the Authors

Professor of Law, Department of Law, London School of Economics.

Professor of Law and Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law, Department of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) , University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521676010
• ISBN 13: 9780521676014
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 408