Subjects:

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Contents:

The courts and dispute resolution

alternative dispute resoultion

the critics

legal scholarship and alternative dispute resoltuion

the quality of alternative dispute resolution.

Lawyers' interest in conflict resolution was awakened by the Realist movement and by anthropology. Scholars shifted their focus from the analysis of law as a system of rules to the study of law as a process for handling troublesome cases. This text examines alternative dispute resolution.