Check out Geoff Sharp’s review of Harvard Law School Professor Peter Murray’s article The Privatization of Civil Justice recently published in the summer issue of Judicature magazine.
The bottom line?
(below: the Harvard Law School diploma that will be earned Professor Murray’s students before they go on to serve the justice needs of “the people” against the corporate interests we mediators are presumably serving)
Granted, I haven’t read the entire article because it is apparently in Professor Murray’s economic self-interest to publish his condemnation of mediators in a journal we can’t read without subscribing to it (yes, thanks, Professor, I’d love a .pdf of the article so I can share it with my readers).
If I could induce the good Professor into a dialogue with the mediation community, I’d start with these questions:
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