Holidays are a wonderful thing.
Not only are they a great opportunity to step outside the obligations and scheduling of daily life, they open the space where the bigger picture lives.
And so it…
Online mediators are increasingly in demand in the first online state courts. However, with the inevitable emergence of artificial intelligence-aided online courts, what will the future role of these…
"Does the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation ("Singapore Convention") apply to investor-state disputes?" This intriguing question was…
"Impasse" - a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement; a deadlock.
Last time I focused on impasse in mediation, I noted that in my experience as a…
We would like to announce an opening for the position of Assistant Editor for the Kluwer Mediation Blog.
The Assistant Editor will report directly to the editors, Bill Marsh and Nadja Alexander, and…
“You’ve done what?”
It took just a moment. The red mist descended. The words were out before I could haul them back in. “You’ve just gone behind my back and undermined what I set out, and we had…
The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, known as the Singapore Convention on Mediation (the “Singapore Convention”), was opened for signature on…
Many years ago, a group of friends were driving in the south of England in a rental car and, in need of directions (pre-Google maps and GPS), we pulled over to the side of the road to ask a gentleman…
Mediators should speak up confidently for mediation. In this post I will consider some reasons why this might be difficult, and others why it is so necessary. It is not only that mediation is not…
Photo credit: Creative Commons Jean M.Mas 2/2007
Although my mediation training made no mention of it, 32 years of mediating have taught me that mediations generally unfold over two stages:…
