When do mediators get to talk to one another? There are of course various conferences. They produce a lot of useful papers and discussions but time is short. Co-mediators get to talk a little but it is usually about the issue at hand. Even mediators who work in a mediation practice are off mediating and…
One of the things I value most highly about my mediation practice is the trust that is put in me by the people with whom I work. The parties to a mediation will tell me about their hopes, wishes and fears within a conflict, and will trust me to keep these to myself. It is…
For my first blog, here is a note of encouragement for all fellow mediators. Last week I was invited to a football match (read ‘soccer’ if you are West of the Atlantic). Better still, the invitation was from the former Chairman of the football club, to join him in the Directors’ Box, and doubtless for…
A warm welcome to the new Kluwer Mediation Blog from the co-editors, Bill Marsh and Nadja Alexander! We hope this will be the first of many visits you make. One of the great satisfactions and challenges of the mediation field is its variety. Talk to anyone involved and it won’t be long before differing views…
On behalf of Kluwer Law International and the Editors, I would like to offer a warm welcome to our brand new Mediation Blog. Following hot on the heels of our successful sister service, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, I am thrilled to announce the launch of Kluwer Mediation Blog. I’m delighted to introduce our Editors, Nadja Alexander…
Disputes are like weddings or funerals: they require a serious resolution procedure. As such, mediation procedures have rapidly spread throughout the world. They travel without passport. The rapid evolution of mediation started as a court-annexed or connected procedure, and caused a revolution in the dispute system design of modern civil justice. A multi-door courthouse with…
In my previous life as a blogger, I wrote about things that jumped up and hit me that day, that week, that month – so it is that I report here in my very first post at this most promising blog, that I was not so much hit but lynched when training aspiring mediators here…
The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature was Edith Wharton in 1921, for her novel An Age of Innocence. Addressing what is, and is not, classic, Wharton wrote: A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions … It is classic because of a certain…
During a break in arbitration hearings in New York a few years ago, I took a side trip to the American Museum of Natural History to meet Robert Carneiro, the museum’s Curator Emeritus of South American Ethnology. (You do these things when you’re an in-house litigation counsel, especially when the alternative is another day in…
