Alternative Dispute Resolution
May 13, 2025
Mediation reigns, but the litigation beast lives on
Fifty years after Harvard Law Professor Frank Sander's multi-door vision, meaningful early dispute resolution still faces cultural and institutional resistance.
Ten years ago, I published an article about the full panoply of ADR processes, noting how the litigation landscape had changed in the 40 years since visionary Harvard Law Professor Frank Sander delivered his ground-breaking speech, Varieties of Dispute Processes, at the National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice, commonly known as the Pound Revisited Conference. Sander conceived of ...
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