The relevance of the article is that in administrative law the legal institution is usually referred to as a kind of alternative dispute resolution, which under certain conditions is able to overcome or reduce the negative and help restore their rights. By its nature, this institution is designed on the basis of law and consensus of the parties to promptly resolve the issue on the merits and save heterogeneous resources. The consequences of this are several positive aspects, including, for example, the unloading of the judiciary, as well as a positive impact on public opinion or positive ratings of Ukraine in the world. The leading role in increasing the effectiveness of the legal institution of dispute resolution with the participation of a judge is played by its scientific basis, part of which is historiography. After all, it is well known that the neglect of the study of the genesis of thoughts is a manifestation of errors and one-sidedness, which can lead to undesirable consequences of varying severity. The purpose of the article is to provide a description of the historiography of the legal institution of alternative dispute resolution in administrative proceedings on the basis of dissertation research on dispute resolution with the participation of a judge. The article describes the historiography of the Ukrainian administrative and legal institute of alternative dispute resolution in court proceedings. The author focuses on the issue of dispute resolution with the participation of a judge at the present stage of development of scientific and legal thought. It is concluded that the issue of alternative, mediation or pre-trial settlement / resolution of disputes in the domestic legal literature remains controversial. In the past five years, a new impetus for the development of the historiography of the legal institution of alternative dispute resolution in administrative proceedings has been the problems of Ukrainian society related to unresolved judges and reasonable deadlines initiated by democratic European institutions. In Ukraine, along with its own practice, an urgent and popular transition has begun from the search for an effective model of dispute resolution to the study of empirics of dispute resolution, which is characterized by pronounced legal nihilism in part of its territory.