This article presents research related to community mediation, specifically the factors affecting individuals' choices to accept or decline participation in the mediation process. Alongside a growing literature that emphasizes the significant benefits of mediation, this empirical study finds...

This article reviews the experience of community mediation centers over the last ten years, including a review of the literature and national surveys of centers and volunteers. From this literature review, a new survey was created to examine how effectively community mediation centers are...

The Equal Pay Act had a distinct market purpose. Congress made a policy choice to modify the existing compensation market so that employees who perform jobs requiring substantially “equal skill, effort, and responsibility” earn equal wages, regardless of sex. The Act aimed not simply to...

This Article examines the practice of "regulation by amicus": that is, an agency's attempt to mold statutory interpretation and establish policy by filing "friend of the court" briefs in private litigation. Since the United States Supreme Court recognized agency amicus interpretations as a...

Prepared for a symposium about the overuse of summary judgment in employment discrimination cases, this Article provides a grassroots empirical analysis of what is happening in equal pay cases on the front lines of the district courts. Analyzing a database of 500 federal district court decisions...

Our nation faces a serious eviction epidemic. More than 2.3 million eviction actions are filed every year. That's about four per minute. The eviction crisis is a multi-faceted problem that will require a systemic, interdisciplinary approach. This urgent problem is not new. Many decades ago,...

“Alternative dispute resolution” or “ADR” has reached a paradoxical moment: it is both ubiquitous in practice and at risk of extinction as a distinct concept and field. As the ADR field nears middle age—nearly fifty years after the Pound Conference of 1976—“ADR” has become so...

Over the past several decades, our conception of “family” has dramatically changed, and so have judicial approaches to resolving disputes about the creation and dissolution of families. The traditional adversarial legal system — in which separating couples bitterly litigate in...

On the fiftieth anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, many employers continue to search for ways to implement the law’s antidiscrimination and equal opportunity mandates into the workplace. The current litigation-based approach to employment discrimination under Title VII and...

This Article provides the first empirical and rhetorical analysis of all reported Equal Pay Act (EPA) federal appellate cases since the Act’s passage. This analysis shows that as women climb the occupational ladder, the manner in which many federal courts interpret the EPA imposes a wage glass...