The Untethering of Mediation from Relationships

There is no doubt that Lon Fuller contributed mightily to the legitimization of mediation when he chose to identify it as one of six key processes for social ordering, or processes that “bring[] human relations into a workable and productive order” (p. 307). The other processes—legislation, adjudication, administrative direction, contractual agreement, and customary law—were (and are) much more likely to be identified as sources for rules of law....