As usual, Confucius said it first: Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.
This truism is becoming increasingly applicable to mediation law. Take England & Wales for example. In…
This is the second in a series of postings written by Michael Leathes, Tina Monberg and Irena Vanenkova and Nadja Alexander. The first post appeared on the Kluwer Mediation Blog on 17 August…
This is the final posting of a 3-part series. Previous posts in the series noted the gathering tempest being whipped up by opacity in ADR practice. How can structural change help the ship steer…
Part 1 of this post touched on rumblings for more transparency in arbitration. But there is more than the distant sound of thunder, and it’s coming closer.
As arbitration and mediation are both…
This is a 3-part post on why and how a little focused collaboration among practitioners and users can give ADR a tremendous boost.
ADR Taboos
In recent years, corporate users of ADR services have…
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…
