The New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators is holding its Annual Conference all day Saturday, November 19. The keynote speaker is Joanna Jacobs of the US Department of Justice's Office of Dispute Resolution....
As a final report on the proceedings of the recent IBA Annual Conference, on Thursday November 3 Jane Player and I co-chaired a Panel on "The Use of ADR in the Management and Control of Dispute-Related Costs." ...
Two years ago, a session was held at the Buenos Aires IBA Annual Conference on the feasibility of creating a set of rules for the mediation of disputes between investors and States. The ICSID Conciliation Rules are broadly acknowledged to be clumsy and have seldom, if ever, been used. For the past...
At the IBA in Dubai last week, a three-hour session was held on "The Rise of Multiculturalism and Resulting Challenges of Managing Diversity in the Workplace." While the subjects discussed were fascinating, the subjects not discussed might have been even more so. ...
The tireless Hanna Tuempel of the Dispute Resolution Services of the International Chamber of Commerce reminds us that the 7th ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition takes place in Paris on February 3-8, 2012. In the competition, law students are faced with complex interational commercial problems that they must attempt to resolve...
The Annual Conference of the International Bar Association opened on Sunday night October 30, 2011, with an address by Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and, with the IAEA, 2005 Nobel laureate. He focused on the dynamic state of the Middle East and addressed both the...