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…
This week the South China Morning Post featured an article entitled “Why the theories of Einstein, climate change or evolution can never be proved right”.
Referring to recent world headlines…
This post was prepared in cooperation with Bogdan Matei.
Neutrality is one of the keystone concepts in the mediation process. When the mediator or the parties consider that the mediator’s neutrality…
