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Comparative Dispute Management: Court-connected Mediation in Japan and Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Katja Funken

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During the last decade, there has been a widespread trend in Germany and internationally away from litigation towards Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedures. In recent years, the German interest has especially focused on mediation as a means of dispute resolution. The year 2000 saw the introduction of a federal mediation law that permits all German states (“Länder”) to launch mandatory court-connected mediation with respect to certain kinds of civil disputes. However, mediation is still in its infancy in Germany. Thus, it could be helpful for the purpose of improving the German system to look to other jurisdictions that have mature mediation systems.

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German Law Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , February 2002 , E1
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Copyright © 2002 by German Law Journal GbR 

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Benda, H, ‘Richter im Rechtsstaat', (1979) Deutsche Richterzeitung 357Google Scholar
Berat, L, ‘The Role of Court-connected Mediation in the Japanese Legal System', (1992) Am. U.J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 133, reprinted in Port KL, Comparative Law: Law and the Legal Process in Japan, Carolina Academic Press, Durham/NC, 1996 at 488 ff.Google Scholar
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Jansen, P, ‘Parteiautonomie im Vermittlungsverfahren? Empirische Ergebnisse zum Güteverfahren vor dem Schiedsmann', (1988) Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie 328Google Scholar
Japan Federation of Bar Associations ed., Shimin to Horitsu-mondai (Citizens and Legal Problems), Tokyo, 1986 Google Scholar
Kitamura, I, ‘The Judiciary in Contemporary Society: Japan’ (1993) 25 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 263Google Scholar
Krapp, T, ‘Court-connected Mediation in Japan', Second International Mediation Conference, Mediation and Cultural Diversity, Conference Proceedings, 18-20 January 1996, Adelaide, South Australia, Dale Bagshaw (ed)Google Scholar
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Spörer, T, ‘Mediation in der Wirtschaft – Wirtschaft in der Mediation', (1998) Zeitschrift für Mediation 27Google Scholar
Tanase, T, ‘The Management of Disputes: Automobile Accident Compensation in Japan', (1990) 24 Law and Society Review 651Google Scholar
Taniguchi, Y, ‘Mediation in Japan and Mediation's Cross-Cultural Viability', paper given at the Biennial IFCAI Conference, October 24, 1997, Geneva, Switzerland “Vorblatt zum Gesetzentwurf der Landesregierung Nordrhein Westfalen” at http://www.jm.nrw.de/stat_jm/themen/streitschl/Vorblatt.htm.Google Scholar
Wren, HG, ‘The Legal System of Pre-Western Japan', (1968) 20 Hastings L.J. 217Google Scholar
Yamada, A, ‘Court-connected ADR in Japan', paper given at the conference “Verhandeln und Mediation”, Tübingen, April 1997 Google Scholar