Pandemic Impacts on Remote Justice

Keywords: online, justice, ADR

Abstract: Due to COVID-19, many dispute resolution processes shifted to a remote format. This roundtable explores the impact of that shift on facilitation, negotiation, mediation, and arbitration processes, and in specific practice areas, including criminal law and family law. Topics include whether these remote processes achieve just outcomes and how to teach these processes to better prepare practitioners for the future. The discussants share observations and analysis based on their recent experience as advocates, neutrals, and empirical researchers and lessons learned from forcing professionals to rapidly enhance their technological skills during a period of massive disruption. The program examines how agile particular mechanisms have been as well as larger practice areas and whether they have successfully reinvented themselves