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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Carrie J Menkel-Meadow

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]
Article last updated:
August 2018

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 09 December 2024

Subject(s):
Judicial independence/impartiality — Arbitration, procedure — Confidentiality and privilege — Parallel proceedings — Arbitral rules — Mediation — Negotiations and consultation — Soft law — Quasi-judicial bodies, procedure

Published under the direction of Hélène Ruiz Fabri, with the support of the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.

1 This entry defines and describes the non-adjudicatory or non-court processes used in international dispute resolution and outlines the basic issues and controversies that have developed with respect to their use. The term alternative dispute resolution (‘ADR’) has come to connote all dispute resolution processes other than formal court adjudicatory processes (Menkel-Meadow and others, 2018), but the term appropriate dispute resolution may now more accurately reflect the fact that other forms of dispute resolution are more commonly used than courts (Alter,...
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