Description
Book SynopsisComparative Dispute Resolution offers an original, wide-ranging, and invaluable corpus of essays on dispute resolution. Enriched by a broad, comparative vision and a focus on the processes used to handle disputes, this study adds significantly to the discourse around comparative legal studies.
From a comparative perspective, this Research Handbook analyses the field of dispute processing, generally and across a broad range of legal systems and their legal cultures. It explores the nature of disputes and the range of basic processes used in their resolution, examining emerging issues in theory and practice and analysing differing traditions of dispute resolution and their 'modernisation'. Offering a balanced combination of theory and praxis, chapters present new understandings of theoretical, comparative and transnational dimensions of the manner in which societies and their legal systems respond to difficulties in social relations.
Showcasing opportunities for new research and debate, Comparative Dispute Resolution will be helpful to practitioners and those engaged in the practise of handling disputes. Students and scholars in disciplines such as law, sociology, politics and psychology will also find this topical Research Handbook useful in their understanding of the theory and practice of disputing and dispute management, legal reform and enhanced access to justice.
Trade Review‘This volume is an important and timely contribution to the growing literature on comparative dispute resolution which has been made even more important by the adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation in 2019 and the acceleration of the use of online dispute resolution processes due to the appearance of COVID 19. The editors and contributors deserve recognition for their achievement in providing this rich resource for us.’ -- Colm Brannigan, Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal
'This is an impressive volume, both in terms of coverage and depth, offering a rich variety of intellectual perspectives on a wide spectrum of dispute resolution processes, including processes of avoidance, negotiation, mediation, umpiring, hybrid processes and self-help. In doing so, this compendium brings together a wide variety of anthropological viewpoints from many top scholars in this field, providing new insights of theoretical, comparative and transnational dimensions, which observe how the culture and social context are often very significant.' -- Pablo Cortes, University of Leicester, UK
'An astonishingly broad-reaching and multidisciplinary collection of essays that connects readers back to classic historical, anthropological, and jurisprudential studies of disputing; across legal systems in Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe and across processes such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration, but also avoidance and violence. It also moves forward to contemporary issues including new relations between technologies and humans and the transformation of courts from the inside. Together, these essays offer fresh comparative insights that challenge conventional understandings of the boundaries among law, disputing, and the state.' -- Amy J. Cohen, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, US
-- Michele Graziadei, University of Turin, Italy
Table of Contents
Contents: [A] INTRODUCTORY 1. Introduction Maria Federica Moscati, Michael Palmer and Marian Roberts B] DISPUTES 2. Restorative Responses to Intimate Partner Violence Donna Coker 3. Dispute Avoidance Fiona Cownie and Anthony Bradney 4. Conflict Analysis and Conflict Intervention: Do Theoretical Understandings of Conflict Shape Conflict Intervention Approaches? Joseph P. Folger 5. Violence Michael Palmer [C] NEGOTIATION 6. The Opening Statement in Mediation: A Goffman Analysis Debbie de Girolamo 7. (Mindfully) Negotiating around ‘Lies’: The Science of Nonverbal Communication for ‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Cultures Clark Freshman 8. The Negotiative Function of Law in International Dispute Resolution Amy Kellam 9. Negotiating Within Legal Ambiguity: Same-Sex Partners, Family Disputes and Negotiation in Italy Maria Federica Moscati 10. Rethinking Analysis of Homelessness Applications: the Role of Negotiation and Disputing Behaviour Patricia NG [D] MEDIATION 11. Through the Looking Glass: exploring the regulatory-ethical eco-system for mediation Nadja Alexander 12. Square Pegs and Round Holes: The Divergent Roles of Lawyers and Mediators Lesley Allport 13. Elder Mediation: An Emerging Field of Practice Dale Bagshaw 14. Mediator Styles Kenneth Kressel 15. Mediation Privilege Gary Meggitt 16. Mediation Processes Linda Mulcahy 17. Gulliver’s cross-cultural processual model of mediation and family mediation: The harmonious integration of theory and practice. Marian Roberts 18. Personae non grata: Interpreters in Mediation Brooke Townsley 19. Civil Case Mediation in the United States James A. Wall [E] UMPIRING: ADJUDICATION, ARBITRATION & LITIGATION 20. Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR) in Italy, Israel and England and Wales: A Comparative Look on the Regulation of Judges’ Settlement Activities Michal Alberstein & Nourit Zimerman 21. Arbitration in Comparative Perspective Gu Weixia 22. Courts and Dispute Resolution in Japan John Haley 23. Algorithmic Justice: Dispute Resolution and the Robot Judge? John Morrison & Adam Harkens 24. Regulating the Cost of Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in the Member States of the European Union Áine Ryall 25. Unrepresented Parties as “Professionals” in China’s Consumer Dispute Processes Zhou Ling [F] MIXED PROCESSES and HYBRID SYSTEMS 26. The Role of Ombuds—A Comparative Perspective Naomi Creutzfeldt 27. Alternative Dispute Resolution through Restorative Justice: An integrated approach Theo Gavrielides 28. Hybrid and Mixed Dispute Resolution Processes: Integrities of Process Pluralism Carrie Menkel-Meadow 29. Regulatory Regime for Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): Current Forms and Future Development ZHAO Yun [G] CHANGING CULTURES, CHANGING SYSTEMS 30. Mediation in the Russian Federation W. E. Butler 31. Transplants, Re-Use, and Adaptation: Voluntarism in the Irish Mediation Act 2017 as a Comparative Undertaking Aonghus Cheevers 32. Restoring the National Convivencia through Transitional Justice: The Chilean Case Anita Ferrara 33. Dispute Resolution Processes in Islamic Cultures Mohamed M Keshavjee 34. Dispute Resolution in South Korea Dohyun Kim & Chul-woo Lee 35. “Different spaces, Different laws”: The role of state forums in non-state dispute processing in India Kalindi Kokal 36. Shifts in Dispute Resolution Processes of West African States Emelia Onyema 37. The Art of Mediation: Law and Rhetoric in Medieval Tibet Fernanda Pirie 38. Local Law and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms under Negotiation in Emerging South Sudan Katrin Seidel 39. Commercializing Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes in Resolving Financial Disputes in China Shen Wei Index
