The dilution of the process by mandatory mediation programs. The institutionalization of mediation into court programs has resulted in way too many cases going to mediation that did not belong in that process in the first place. Why?

The CCA-Straus Institute Survey on Arbitration Practice, one of the Straus Institute’s three recent surveys under the Theory-to-Practice Research Project, consisted of 65 multiple-choice and short-answer questions on respondents’ arbitration experiences and opinions on arbitration practices and the future of the arbitration field-at-large.

According to commentator Rachel Maddow in her book “Drift,” the way the United States goes to war has gradually become more secretive and less democratic. She observes that in the last half century, the decision to go to war has become too easy.

The Straus Institute’s Theory-to-Practice Research Project was begun in 2013 as an ongoing initiative aimed at expanding our knowledge of dispute resolution practices; understanding the perspectives of mediators, arbitrators, judges, corporate counsel and legal advocates; and garnering other empirical information regarding dispute resolution processes and participants’ judgments, decisions and choices.