This is where you will post articles, issues, case law and/or current legal news

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This is where you will post articles, issues, case law and/or current legal news material and your related discussion of that material. Your posts must pertain to any of the Week 4 topics: Dispute Resolution, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Common Law, Statutory Law & Administrative Law. They must also include your Summary (IN YOUR WORDS) of the source article, case, etc. PLUS your Analysis of this source material (again, IN YOU OWN WORDS). In addition, you must also provide a URL to the English language source you used

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Topic: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Article name: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Link/source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/alternative_dispute_resolution

Summary: As per the Legal Information Institute, ADR is a method of resolving disputes which does not involve litigation. ADR includes arbitration and mediation. Under ADR disputes are settled outside the courtroom through the process of arbitration, mediation, negotiation and conciliation.

Analysis: ADR has its own sets of advantages over litigation. Firstly, it allows the parties themselves to control the process and the solution (usually in negotiation). Secondly, arbitration is less time consuming and less resource consuming than litigation. In the USA, 49 states have adopted the  1956 version of the Uniform Arbitration Act as state law and title 9 of the U.S. code establishes federal law supporting arbitration.

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