Developing the Field

Developing the Field, Efficiency, Future of mediation, Lawyers, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Understanding mediation

(ADR Center Romania)/ /Leave a comment

This post was inspired by conversations with a group of people that I’ve joined last weekend for an amazing field trip in Southern Carpathians. In addition to breath-taking landscapes, mountains are teaching us many lessons, including listening, patience, hope and diversity of paths and destinations. Therefore, mountain walks are not only excellent opportunities for exercises…

Clients, Conflict, Developing the Field, mediation models, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Research, Uncategorized, Understanding mediation

(University of Strathclyde) and (Mediation Hertfordshire)/ /Leave a comment

Try this thought experiment: imagine a mediator without empathy. How and what would they do? Would there be drawbacks? Benefits? The response to these questions probably depends on our own experience of empathy. This simple yet often misunderstood term masks a complex and fascinating set of ideas about human connection. Because we believe empathy is…

Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, ICC Mediation Competition, Legal Practice, Mediation Lawyering, Training, Young Mediators

(Sabine Walsh Mediation)/ /Leave a comment

While I am watching hailstones the size of peas fall in the West of Ireland, a good number of my colleagues are celebrating the culmination of the ICC’s Mediation Competition in Paris, where in excess of 60 teams of mediators and negotiators compete to resolve disputes through mediation. The relevance of this to today’s blog…

ADR, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, India, Negotiation, Promoting Mediation

(Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution Team), (V M Salgaocar College of Law), and (Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London)/ /Leave a comment

For many student mediators across the globe, the start of the new year will bring the final stages of their preparation for two mediation competitions. Next week, the Lex Infinitum competition will be held at V. M. Salgaocar College of Law, Goa, followed, in February, by the ICC Mediation Week in Paris. Now in its…

cross-border mediation, Developing the Field, Enforcement, International Mediation, Legislation, Mediation Act, Singapore, Third Party Funding

(Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore)/ /Leave a comment

The Singapore Mediation Act entered into force on 1 November 2017. As noted in an earlier post by Joel Lee, it is the product of painstaking study since 2013 by the Ministry of Law’s International Commercial Mediation Working Group, the Chief Justice, mediators, counsel, consultants, students, funders, international practitioners and dispute resolution institutions including the…

Developing the Field, EU Directive on Mediation, EU Mediation Directive, Future of mediation, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.)

(Sabine Walsh Mediation)/ /Leave a comment

One could be forgiven for assuming that the EU has bigger things to worry about these days than whether the EU Mediation Directive has had its desired impact, and therefore the most recent European Parliament Resolution on this area has passed under the radar – at least my radar – until now. Drawing on various…

ADR, ADR Clauses, Appointment of Mediators, Availability of Mediators, caucus, Clients, Commercial Mediation, Corporate Counsel's View, cross-border mediation, Decision making, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Dispute Resolution Clause, Enforcement of a Mediation Clause, Enforcement of an ADR Clause, Evaluative Mediation, Future of mediation, General, Global Pound Conference Series 2016-17, International commercial mediation, International Mediation, Joint Sessions, Lawyers, Legal Issues, Mediation Contract Clause, Mediation Lawyering, mediation process, Mediation Users/Clients, Promoting Mediation, Quality, Stages of mediation, Stories, Tips, Uncategorized

(Bill Marsh Mediator)/ /Leave a comment

This is the second in a short series of blogs interviewing regular users of mediation about what they really want from mediators and from mediation. We kicked off last month with Rebecca Clark. This month, I have the pleasure of interviewing Michael McIlwrath, who has been the head of litigation for GE Oil & Gas…

ADR, Arbitration, Commercial Mediation, Corporate Counsel's View, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Global Pound Conference Series 2016-17, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Research

(Pepperdine University School of Law)/ /3 Comments

In the forty years since new visions and challenges for the administration of American justice were offered at the 1976 Pound Conference, a Quiet Revolution has altered the landscape of public and private dispute resolution around the world. (See Living the Dream of ADR). Recently, a series of day-long meetings styled as the Global Pound…

Developing the Field, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)

(NZ Centre for ICT Law & School of Law, Auckland University)/ /3 Comments

This blog was written in response to several recent meetings with different audiences, which illustrated for me the diverse perceptions of and responses to the role of digital technologies across the practices of dispute resolution. On the one hand, I hear of a cautious judicial recognition that the courts need to develop (and develop soon)…

Commercial Mediation, Cross-cultural, Developing the Field, Future of mediation, International commercial mediation, Mediation Practice, Promoting Mediation

(Bond & Bond Mediation / University of Wildau )/ /2 Comments

Over recent years the number of (mainly law) student mediation moots around the world has increased at a remarkable rate. In addition to well-known venues in Paris, Vienna, and Goa, I have heard of events in Bangalore, Bhopal, Chicago, Hanover, São Paulo, Sydney … and Hamburg. There will be more. This is a bug that…