The goal of this research is to describe mediation as an alternative technique conflict settlement under customary law, in both criminal and civil matters. Dispute resolution processes based on law play important role decreasing litigation. Mediation a cornerstone traditional law-based dispute settlement. This study uses descriptive qualitative better understand the phenomenon form law. data wa...

This paper is a preliminary draft for eventual inclusion in the Handbook of Law and Economics, A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell editors. It reviews and synthesizes the work of economists and law and economics scholars in the field of public international law. The bulk of that work has been in the area of international trade, but many of the ideas in the trade literature have implications f...