As I write this, I am looking across the Gulf of Aqaba at the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, near the place where the Egyptian border abuts Israel, south of the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilat. This morning…
In this blog, I’ll follow up on Deborah Masucci’s overview, and in doing so I’ll offer a three observations about technology and one about a very non-technological aspect of mediation.
First, on the…
We would like to announce an opening for the position of Associate Editor for the Kluwer Mediation Blog (KMB).
The Associate Editor will report directly to the editors Bill Marsh and Nadja Alexander…
The first Global Pound Conference event was held in Singapore on March 17-18. Over 400 people participated in the event. Attendees came from all over the world including the U.S., Australia, New…
Cogniscenti (and readers of Ema Vidak-Gojkovic's blog The UNCITRAL Convention on Enforcement of Conciliated Settlement Agreements – An Idea Whose Time Has Come?) will know that talks are ongoing in…
Over the past months, indeed years, I have been blogging about Ireland’s proposed new regulatory regime for mediation contained in the draft Mediation Bill 2012. 2012 2016 It was stalled and delayed…
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…
Three recent mediations in three jurisdictions raised some interesting issues.
Each mediation was different. One involved a claim for professional negligence against a firm of solicitors for (…
“Stand by your devices”; or “Access through the [virtual] looking glass”
I take the first phrase of this blog title from a throw-away line in one of the recent comments by a student in my current…
One of the most interesting developments in business dispute resolution over the last decade is the way in which different methods of resolution are being harmonized. The EU Directive on Mediation…
