Professor Sukhsimranjit Singh, "In the Shadow of the Pandemic: Unearthing Unequal Access to Justice Vis a Vis Dispute Resolution" -- Washington University Journal of Law and Policy (forthcoming)

Professor Sukhsimranjit Singh's article, "In the Shadow of the Pandemic: Unearthing Unequal Access to Justice Vis a Vis Dispute Resolution" will be published in the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy (forthcoming 2022).

The article will be featured in the Journal’s winter volume, “New Directions in Dispute Resolution and Clinical Education in Response to the Pandemic Crisis," with a direct or indirect focus on race, ethnicity, gender, and poverty. 

Abstract of "In the Shadow of the Pandemic: Unearthing Unequal Access to Justice Vis a Vis Dispute Resolution"

The pandemic has not been generous to any of us. It has stolen lives, eaten life savings, it broke relationships and devastated entire families. It has also unearthed the often-unseen power imbalances in human conditioning and hence in one of our civilized litigation mechanisms: dispute resolution. This article explores how the pandemic crisis has unearthed unequal access to dispute resolution opportunities for racial and cultural minorities. I connect my research with a larger question: How has the pandemic unearthed deep structural imbalances to access to privilege due to economic inequalities for racial and cultural minorities? We often say that dispute resolution mechanisms, particularly mediation and arbitration, provide access to justice, this article questions that myth in the shadow of the pandemic.