In the centre of Berlin opposite the State Opera House, there is a large building in Baroque style that was originally built as the Prussian Royal Library in the late eighteenth century, and came…
Some years ago my wife, Dr. Rosemary Howell, saw an aboriginal speaking stick, 82 centimetres long, at an art gallery on the Queensland Gold Coast. She asked whether it might be possible to obtain a…
Canon tables from Zeyt'un Gospels - www.getty.edu
The term “art disputes” encompasses a broad range of disputes in the area of art and cultural heritage. They may relate to copyright and moral…
On 25 July 2018, I was privileged to be part of a conference panel moderated by the inimitable Professor Nadja Alexander, CEO of the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy and my…
(This post is being republished because of technical problems when it was first published).
Thanks to Martin Svatos, for pointing out in his recent blog a number of cases where mediators or would-be…
(This post is being republished because of technical problems when it was first published.)
One of the key debates among mediators centres on the word 'evaluation'. I've written about this before -…
Ho Chi Minh City Hall, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
In the first few months of this year I found myself returning to Vietnam a number of times thanks to Vietnamese initiatives in commercial…
A good friend of mine was recently surprised to see a robot cutting the grass around a well-known landmark in Edinburgh. Coincidentally this was around the same time as I came across a speech given…
Bloomberg (not my usual reading fodder, I confess) carried an interesting piece a couple of months ago, entitled “Meet the Real Force Behind the Brexit Talks”. Yes, it was about Brexit (yawn) but it…
It’s August and I’m cooking up some Stone Soup.
What I'm actually doing is finalizing the syllabus, lesson plans, lecture notes, readings, guest speaker list and slide decks. The materials…
