"I think the EU will need to move significantly on both those key points because they’re points of principle." (Dominic Raab, UK Foreign Secretary, speaking on the BBC this morning)
The Brexit…
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” was a saying I heard quite a few times while growing up, as another childhood wheeze bit the dust. I returned to it while reading Michal Sandel’s…
Dear Young Mediation Enthusiast,
Thank you for writing to me and expressing your great interest in mediation after going through the 40-hour training and passing the accreditation assessments with…
I write this in the aftermath of yet another mediation in which the protagonists exhibited symptoms of having been seriously traumatised by the litigation process to which they had been exposed.…
"Half moons ago
people were hollowed-out tablets of stone
spaces were given them
according to spaces they left
. . .
some spaces were filled with darkness
no light would shine there . . ."
- From "…
The question recently occurred to me whether we would have reached the kinds of online worlds of work we now have in many fields without the need to do so due to Covid-19. Would it have happened…
Covid is the gift that keeps on giving. It has provided a wonderful focus for blame that has let us off the hook for a lot of things. It has coincided with significant changes in our mediation…
In theory, we expect the parties' opening statements to be swift, persuasive and forceful. At least, this is what I teach my students in ADR classes. In my mediation room, sadly, this occurs rather…
'The world is made, not found' (W. Barnett Pearce) (1)
I just spent an intensive weekend on Zoom with my students, helping them navigate their early steps into mediation practice. So much has…
Just recently (November 4th), hackers attacked Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (Superior Tribunal de Justiça - STJ). Not only they had access to the Court’s system and encrypted its entire…
