Russ Bleemer of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) has done us all a great service in posting four excellent articles on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's rulings on commercial arbitration. I encourage those interested to visit...
This Article first appeared in New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer (2009). On May 21, 2008, the European Parliament enacted a Directive to encourage the use of mediation in civil and commercial matters, and to make uniform throughout the European Union the legal status of certain attributes of that practice. The Directive...
This article was first published in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The 2008 Fordham Papers (2009) The rise of China as a trade partner to the United States, and the legal and commercial ramifications of this phenomenon, have been widely observed and commented upon. This article relates some experiences...
This article appears in the April 2009 edition of the Mediation Newsletter of the International Bar Association. An entire day of the 2008 IBA Conference in Buenos Aires was devoted to the topic of the interrelationship among Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights. Organized by James E. Brumm, A....
The third biennial Symposium of the International Trade Center on the management of commercial dispute resolution services offering effective dispute resolution services to SMEs was held in Chamonix, France, on 14-15 May 2009. It attracted leaders in commercial mediation from many countries, and offered a forum for the exchange of...