Introduction This Overview of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is intended to serve as a practical introduction to the various mechanisms for resolving disputes between parties. It is designed to inform deliberations among judges, justice ministry officials, and administrators who are considering the possibility of adding new dispute resolution options to the traditional adjudicative model ...

dispute resolution procedures in contract construction: from iran’s legal and imamiyeh fiqh perspectives solmaz hadi [1] morteza haji pour [2] abstract in iranian civil law, in spite of the long tradition of using alternative dispute resolution (adr) methods, and existence of rules and regulation regarding conciliation and compromise, the use of adr methods were not welcomed by the conflicting ...

This paper seeks to understand the factors that cause disputes at the World Trade Organization to move from the negotiation stage to the panel stage. We hypothesize that transfer payments between states are costly to arrange and that the lowest-cost transfers are those that relate directly to the issue in dispute. This implies that when the subject matter of the dispute has an all-or-nothing ch...

(a) Alice and Bob wish to resolve a dispute over telephone. We can encode the possibilities of the dispute by a binary value. For this they engage a protocol: i. Alice → Bob: Alice picks up randomly an x, which is a 200 bit number and computes the function f(x). Alice sends f(x) to Bob. ii. Bob → Alice: Bob tells Alice whether x was even or odd. iii. Alice → Bob: Alice then sends x to Bob, so t...

Leader changes induce changes in the pattern of protection and of filings of disputes at the WTO. Additionally, political institutions play an important modifying role. We offer a model that explains changes in trade policy and dispute onset induced by shifts in the sectors represented in government when leaders change. Democratic leaders are more likely to initiate WTO disputes than autocrats....

This paper examines the construction equipment resale market to assess whether equipment produced by the world’s largest manufacturer of construction machinery, Caterpillar, experienced lower product quality in facilities that underwent contract disputes during the 1990’s. Analysis of auction data reveals that resale market participants significantly discounted machines produced in these disput...

Between 1822 and the late 1830s a highly personal priority dispute was fought between the celebrated surgeon and anatomist Sir Charles Bell and his ex-student Herbert Mayo. The dispute was over the motor and sensory functions of the Vth and VIIth cranial nerves. Over the course of the 1820s and the 1830s, the competing claims of Bell and Mayo were presented in newspapers, journals, and textbook...

What determines the mechanism chosen to resolve a commercial dispute? To what degree does the aggrieved recover damages? And does the relationship survive in the aftermath? The answers to these questions affect expectations as to the costs of transacting and, thereby, the development of markets. But they have received almost no attention in the economic literature on the post-socialist transiti...

This paper aims to describe an initial stage of research related to the introduction of a new completion to the online dispute resolution landscape in consumer law domain. The aim is to include a legal layer into the life cycle of dispute resolution schemes that has not been yet considered. This is part of an intended support-system that aims to provide both consumers and companies with meaning...

Public participation in environmental decisions has become commonplace. A favored model for public input is to use the tools of dispute resolution to seek consensus among members of a multi-party stakeholder group. The authors believe that a focus on dispute resolution and consensus building can pose impediments to the creation of insights for decisionmakers and lead to the adoption of inferior...