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dispute avoidance  

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  • Because of its method, doctrinal legal scholarship focuses on the pathology of the legal system—on law as dispute resolution seen in reported judgments. Sociolegal studies are free to look at law in different ways; however, the focus in the majority of such studies tends to be on those aspects of law that relate to dispute resolution—on the courts and the way in which various officials and other actors function in relation to the courts. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Dispute Avoidance]

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