ADR and Civil Procedure: Friends or Foes?
https://doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2022.89.1.067-071
Abstract
The success gained worldwide by Alternative Dispute Resolution methods prompts a number of reflections on their pros and cons. Certainly, ADR schemes have the positive effect of reducing the caseload weighing down on courts, but, at the same time, they can undermine the role played by public justice, a role that is pivotal within the organization of legal systems abiding by the rule of law. This essay covers the consequences of the growing development of ADR for the effectiveness of our public system of civil and commercial justice and conveys the concerns of its author for the increasing privatization of dispute resolution and for the future of public justice. The main question of this work is the following: is the present enthusiasm for ADR schemes advancing the cause of civil justice or, to the contrary, it is a phenomenon that, in the long run, could undermine the role of jurisdiction?
About the Author
E. Silvestri
University of Pavia
Italy
Italy
E. SILVESTRI, Associate Processor (ret.) of Italian Civil Procedure; Comparative Civil Procedure; Arbitration, Mediation and Assisted Negotiation; Scientific Director of the Center for the training of mediators and ADR professionals, Department of Law, University of Pavia, Italy; Co-Director of the annual seminar ‘Public and Private Justice’, IUC Dubrovnik, Croatia
Corso Strada, Nuova, 65, 27100 Pavia PV
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Silvestri E. ADR and Civil Procedure: Friends or Foes? Courier of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)). 2022;(1):67-71. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2022.89.1.067-071
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