Keynote: Dispute System Design and the Global Pound Conference

Abstract

Since Roscoe Pound’s famous 1906 speech to the American Bar Association on popular dissatisfaction with the administration of justice,1 the field of dispute resolution has taken up his cause. Frank Sander’s speech at the 1976 Pound Conference marked a turning point in the field’s growth and development within the United States.2 This symposium on its 40th Anniversary also marks a turning point: the globalization of alternative or appropri- ate dispute resolution (“ADR”) in all its forms, in person and on- line, within and across national boundaries.