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Abstract
This Special Project examines the myriad forms of self-help currently available to persons in American society. It groups and discusses notable self-help rights, privileges, and remedies under topical classifications that parallel traditional jurisprudential categories. Parts H through VI of the Special Project sketch the legally fashioned contours and explore the legal, social, and political consequences of self-help methods in tort law, criminal law and law enforcement, commercial transactions, landlord-tenant relations,and family law matters. Part VII explores the attorney's role in the development and implementation of curative self-help procedures such as mediation. Special Project concludes by examining the function, mechanisms, and merits of two increasingly popular alternative dispute resolution processes--rent-a-judge programs and the ombudsman--that offer hope for continued peaceable dispute resolution.
Recommended Citation
Douglas I. Brandon; Melinda L. Cooper; Jeremy H. Greshin; Alvin L. Harris; James M. Head, Jr.; Keith R. Jacques; and Lea Wiggins,
Self-Help: Extrajudicial Rights, Privileges and Remedies in Contemporary American Society,
37 Vanderbilt Law Review
845
(1984)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol37/iss4/5