Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law

We are experiencing a major revolution in the way in which disputes between individuals are resolved. Almost everywhere civil justice is being privatised and court adjudication is disappearing. Private conflicts are less and less decided by judges sitting in courtrooms, through a fair trial and acco...

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Autor: Giabardo, Carlo Vittorio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Resolució de conflictes (Dret)
Dispute resolution (Law)
Mediació
Mediation
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spelling Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of LawGiabardo, Carlo VittorioResolució de conflictes (Dret)Dispute resolution (Law)MediacióMediationWe are experiencing a major revolution in the way in which disputes between individuals are resolved. Almost everywhere civil justice is being privatised and court adjudication is disappearing. Private conflicts are less and less decided by judges sitting in courtrooms, through a fair trial and according to law, and are more and more resolved out-of-court with the help of decision-facilitators through settlements and agreements. Despite the unquestioned importance of this global tendency, its most theoretical dimensions have woefully attracted very little attention. How does this radical and structural change affect the way we look at, and think of, the law? How is this revolution transforming, or even disarticulating, our ideas of legality and justice? This article aims to set the background for further discussion of these issues and provide a tentative answer to these questions. It does so by critically looking at some of the rhetorical arguments deployed by ADR advocates (with a focus on the English legal system) and investigating from a theoretical viewpoint how they potentially threaten our traditional views (a) on the role legal rules are expected to play in societies and (b) on the concept of formal justice and its corollariesJuan de la Cierva’ Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law, University of Girona, Càtedra de Cultura JuridicaUniversity of Wolverhampton. Law Research Centre2020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpeer-reviewedapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/19147http://hdl.handle.net/10256/19147Wolverhampton Law Journal, 2020, vol. 4Articles publicats (D-DP)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2517-8121Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10256/191472026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law
spellingShingle Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law
Giabardo, Carlo Vittorio
Resolució de conflictes (Dret)
Dispute resolution (Law)
Mediació
Mediation
title_short Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law
title_full Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law
title_fullStr Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law
title_full_unstemmed Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law
title_sort Private Justice: The Privatisation of Dispute Resolution and the Crisis of Law
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Giabardo, Carlo Vittorio
author Giabardo, Carlo Vittorio
author_facet Giabardo, Carlo Vittorio
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Resolució de conflictes (Dret)
Dispute resolution (Law)
Mediació
Mediation
topic Resolució de conflictes (Dret)
Dispute resolution (Law)
Mediació
Mediation
description We are experiencing a major revolution in the way in which disputes between individuals are resolved. Almost everywhere civil justice is being privatised and court adjudication is disappearing. Private conflicts are less and less decided by judges sitting in courtrooms, through a fair trial and according to law, and are more and more resolved out-of-court with the help of decision-facilitators through settlements and agreements. Despite the unquestioned importance of this global tendency, its most theoretical dimensions have woefully attracted very little attention. How does this radical and structural change affect the way we look at, and think of, the law? How is this revolution transforming, or even disarticulating, our ideas of legality and justice? This article aims to set the background for further discussion of these issues and provide a tentative answer to these questions. It does so by critically looking at some of the rhetorical arguments deployed by ADR advocates (with a focus on the English legal system) and investigating from a theoretical viewpoint how they potentially threaten our traditional views (a) on the role legal rules are expected to play in societies and (b) on the concept of formal justice and its corollaries
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