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ADR, cross-border mediation, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, ICSID, Investor-state mediation, Uncategorized

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This series of blogs posts explores investment mediation from a variety of angles. In this third installment, we explain the primary differences between mediation and conciliation at ICSID. In part one, we explore how to determine whether mediation is an appropriate option for resolving an investment dispute, while part two looked at what mediation is—and…

ADR, ADR Agreements, ADR Clauses, Combined Clauses, Commercial Mediation, Conflict, Dispute Resolution Clause, Enforcement of a Mediation Clause, Enforcement of an ADR Clause, International Mediation, Legal Issues, Med-Arb Clauses, Pre-arbitration Dispute Settlement Procedures, Uncategorized

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by Dr. Michael Komuczky, attorney at law at Lansky, Ganzger, Goeth, Frankl + Partner (Vienna, Austria), and Sima Ghaffari, ICC YAF Representative and associate at Ferdowsi Legal (Tehran, Iran) There has been a significant increase in the debate on multi-tiered or hybrid dispute resolution clauses, as can be seen in this Blog or the Kluwer…

ADR, Conflict, Court Procedure and Litigation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Global Pound Conference Series 2016-17, Legal Issues, Mandatory mediation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Public Policy, Reform

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As mentioned in my last blog , the UK Civil Justice Council, in its June 2021 Report on  Compulsory ADR , endorsed the idea, contrary to the ruling in the notorious Halsey case, that unwilling parties in dispute may lawfully and appropriately be compelled to participate in a DR process such as mediation. (As an…

ADR, Book Review, Business, Cooperation, Dispute Resolution, Economics

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Attending Harvard’s Program on Negotiation has been life and career changing for many of us – influencing careers in negotiation, mediation and coaching amongst others. ‘Getting to Yes’, first published in 1981 (and never out of print since) was the text accompanying the program, and I read it from cover to cover. I missed the…

ADR, Arbitration, COVID-19, eBRAM, Hong Kong, Mediation, Online Mediation, Technology

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Conducting mediation and arbitration meetings by remote means is not new to mediators, arbitrators, and practitioners. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person meetings have been replaced with video teleconference. Remote or virtual participation in mediation sessions, arbitration hearings, and even court trials become a new normal. Founded in 2018, eBRAM International Online Dispute…

ADR, Arbitration, Court Procedure and Litigation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Mandatory mediation, Mediation Act, Mediation Institutions and Rules, mediation process, Mediation Schemes (In Courts, etc.), Policy, Scotland, Uncategorized

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Shows forms of dispute resolution and the thick line between mediation and arbitration

Law students are probably familiar with a diagram like the one above. It arranges different ways of resolving disputes according to how much say parties have in the outcome. Much as Felstiner and colleagues (1) famously described disputes being transformed into court cases through ‘naming, blaming and claiming,’ this graphic illustrates a parallel transformation in…

ADR, Litigation, Mandatory mediation, Mediation and Society, Mediation Institutions and Rules, mediation models, Mediation Practice, Uncategorized

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On July 12, 2021 the UK Civil Justice Council published its Report on Compulsory ADR . It considered first whether parties to a civil dispute in England and Wales may be compelled to participate in an ADR process. As to this question, it will be recalled that, in the Court of Appeal decision in Halsey…

ADR, Brazil, Business, Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Uncategorized

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As the pandemic evolves in our days, similarly to a great majority of countries worldwide, we need urgent and inevitable shifts in behavioral patterns and cultural paradigms in Brazil as well. An average of 80 million cases reflects a traditional approach to judicialization of everyday life issues among Brazilians and a huge burden for our…

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Mr. Jawad has been a mediator since 2007 and a passionate promoter of mediation in India from its earliest days. Jawad works as a mediator and trainer with the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee of the Supreme Court of India and is a global faculty with ADR ODR International UK. He is a SIMI accredited…