A Community of Court ADR
Programs: How Court-Based ADR Programs Help Each Other Survive and Thrive
Gina Viola
Brown
This article
discusses the community of court alternative-dispute-resolution (ADR)
professionals that has evolved as courts have incorporated ADR programs into the
justice system. The article describes a number of challenges confronting court
ADR programs, as well as efforts generated from within the community to confront
those challenges. The article describes development of the Federal Judicial
Center’s Program for Consultations in Dispute Resolution and how the FJC
designed and implemented this program, through which judges, ADR administrators,
and researchers provide assistance to their peers in federal court ADR programs.
The article also discusses an American Bar Association (
ABA
) project, Court ADR Program Advisors, modeled after the FJC Program, that
provides assistance to state court ADR programs and how the
ABA
project has helped state courts address four challenges. In addition, the
article discusses a study of court ADR administrators designed to help courts
use information technology to evaluate their court ADR programs.
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