Mapping the World: Facts and Meaning In Adjudication and Mediation
Maine Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2011, pp. 61-87
University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-04
28 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2012 Last revised: 26 Feb 2013
Date Written: 2011
Abstract
This Article explores what is and what is not in adjudication and mediation, thus illuminating the profound differences between these two processes. The Article does this work in four parts. First, it offers an analysis of cognitive mapmaking and its inevitability in constructing meaning. It then explores how adjudication defines meaning in a particular way. This Article then conducts a comparable analysis of mediation. Finally, it focuses on the bridging function attorneys play between the worlds of mediation and adjudication.
Keywords: maps, communication, adjudication, dispute resolution, simplification, facts, rules of evidence, mediation, exclusion, legal representation, lawyers, attorneys
JEL Classification: K19, K39, K49, L84
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