What is"meta-conflict"?
the context is" More often than not, ordinary people experience legal dealings as nothing more than varieties of strangely formalized
meta-conflict, duplicating original conflicts instead of solving them."

Question

What is"meta-conflict"?
the context is" More often than not, ordinary people experience legal dealings as nothing more than varieties of strangely formalized
meta-conflict, duplicating original conflicts instead of solving them."

Answer

"meta conflict " means a disagreement/argument/Conflict over whether or how to engage in a conflict.  We can rewrite your sentence this way:

More often than not, ordinary people experience legal dealings as nothing more than lawyers arguing  between themselves using a  variety of strange, formalized arguments, going over the original arguments instead of solving them."

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