Joel Lee

There is an Internet meme that goes "Somewhere, there is a 21 year old in a 50 year old's body going 'What the hell happened?'". I try not to think about age generally; and more specifically, my age…

The year 2016 has so far been a significant one for Singapore in the area of ADR. The opening of the Singapore Legal Year saw the Chief Justice of Singapore, Mr. Sundaresh Menon introducing various…

I said in last month's entry that that was going to be one of my occasional funky entries. Should I be concerned that for this month's entry, I have decided to write on something equally funky? Bear…

Ok. Let me come clean. This is going to be one of my occasional funky entries. To the left-brain, conventional, conservative readers of this blog, please skip this entry. It may only serve to…

11 January 2016 saw the opening of the Singapore Legal Year. As is tradition, the Chief Justice of Singapore, Mr. Sundaresh Menon delivered his address to the legal fraternity. In his address, there…

Writers Note: Despite its whimsical title, I'm afraid this blog entry is not. Do not read if you are not in a good mental or emotional place. Dear Santa, It's been a few years since I last wrote…

I would like to do something a little different from the usual monthly blog entry. I have in previous entries (July 2012 and July 2013) written about a peer mediation initiative that was the…

In February 2015, the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution organized and ran the Asia Pacific International Mediation Summit in New Delhi, India. I had the honour of presenting at a…

It is the beginning of the school term at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, where in this semester, I teach a Negotiation Workshop. In our first class yesterday, we played a…