Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

"Comparative 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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