Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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The optimist in me hopes that, as you are reading this, the coronavirus will be a matter of medical history. Nevertheless, the gradual lockdown of life and business has been a fact of life: an event to be feared, and at the same time an opportunity to think of new ways of doing things.

The traditional face-to-face hearing of an arbitration or the shuffling diplomacy of a mediation just cannot happen at the moment. The same applies to conventional student and academic life, which poses problems for the university and other teaching of dispute resolution.