The Next Generation's Voice: Community, Conflict, and Democracy

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio

Teaching Democracy Through Practice: Collaborative Governance on Campus

The Missouri School of Law Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution held a Symposium in Fall 2017 entitled “The First Amendment on Campus.” At the time, violent conflict had been erupting as marchers advocating white supremacy engaged in hate speech near college and university campuses. Participants in the Symposium sought to balance free speech and academic freedom with civility and respect for diverse viewpoints, while insuring safety in a learning community. The Symposium has made many important contributions to understanding how the field of dispute resolution can address this growing source of conflict

Disputant Preferences for Mediated or Adjudicated Processes in Administrative Agencies: The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Settlement Part Program

Previous research examining disputants’ preferences for mediation over more formal adjudicative proceedings is limited and mostly experimental. Moreover, this work has not examined preferences in relation to repeated experience with various types of proceedings. We surveyed disputants who have experienced different types of proceedings in administrative adjudication and administrative law judge mediation in the Settlement Part Program at the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). We find that the higher the perceptions of procedural justice, the greater the preference for use of mediation. In addition, the more total experience disputants have in the OSHRC dispute system (including both adjudication and settlement judge mediation), the greater their preference for mediation

Keynote: Dispute System Design and the Global Pound Conference

Since Roscoe Pound’s famous 1906 speech to the American Bar Association on popular dissatisfaction with the administration of justice,1 the field of dispute resolution has taken up his cause. Frank Sander’s speech at the 1976 Pound Conference marked a turning point in the field’s growth and development within the United States.2 This symposium on its 40th Anniversary also marks a turning point: the globalization of alternative or appropri- ate dispute resolution (“ADR”) in all its forms, in person and on- line, within and across national boundaries