‘Mediational approaches permit parties to participate in making solutions that might be more
long-lasting, consensual, tailored to their own needs, contingent and re-visitable, and less likely to
lead to desires for revenge, as losing often does.’
Carrie Menkel-Meadow. 2013. Toward a Jurisprudence of Law, Peace, Justice, and a Tilt Toward
Non-Violent and Empathic Means of Human Problem Solving. Unbound: Harvard Journal of the
Legal Left, 8, pp.79-108, at p.89
Compare and contrast legalistic and mediational approaches to dispute resolution, and in doing
so, explain the extent to which you agree with the above statement.
