Negotiation Law Blog - Private Means for Public Justice? Professor Murray Responds - Comments http://www.negotiationlawblog.com/ Southern California Arbitration Mediation & Conflict Resolution: Settle it Now Dispute Resolution Services: Serving Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Century City en Copyright 2012 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:03:16 -0800 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:03:16 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Geoff Sharp Yep, it's time Prof Murray had the right of reply but his comment on your blog goes nowhere in explaining many of his views outlined in the article 'The Privatization of Civil Justice' - for instance, that 'arbitrators and mediators can handle and decide cases more or less in their own economic interests without fear that their activities and decisions will be subject to effective judicial oversight'.

Where is Prof. Murray coming from? I don't want to appear too precious about this but I would like to understand why a Harvard academic says/thinks such dark thoughts - about mediators in particular.

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Prof. Murray's vague comment confirmed the belief that I had of his piece in the first place - his problem is ideological. Murray sounds like a die-hard liberal who hasn't met a problem the government can't solve for us. Or more accurately, he hasn't me a problem that private enterprise can fix.

It does not sound like he wants to reform the process. Instead, he wants to put it back into the hands of the people that drove litigants to seek alternative resolution methods in the first place.

Why?

His article may make some interesting points, but I would personally find it hard to take seriously.

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