RC12 WG on Civil Justice and Dispute Resolution

The working group sessions welcome empirical and theoretical research in the justice and dispute resolution field. In recent years, there were increasing interests in quantitative survey research on experiences of legal problems and access to justice in an unprecedented number of countries. Now we have opportunities for comparative studies of civil disputes and dispute handling behavior among countries with different socio-legal backgrounds. We will further explore socio-legal factors which effectively predict the use of lawyers and that of a court procedure. Not only empirical papers based on surveys, field works or depth-interviews, but also theoretical papers are welcomed, provided that they are empirically based and oriented, even if they do not present original data, either quantitative or qualitative.