Tamara Relis, Perceptions in Litigation and Mediation: Lawyers, Defendants, Plaintiffs and Gendered Parties. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 304 pp. $US 85.00 hardcover (978-0-521-51731-7).
Tamara Relis has crafted a profoundly astute book addressing the central question: How do professional and lay actors understand and experience litigated case processing leading up to and including mediation in legal disputes? Her book offers a wealth of empirical insight to current debates on styles of law practice, formal justice versus informalism, motivations underlying why plaintiffs sue, and dispute transformation debates … Read more
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