The 15th meeting of the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centers was held March 11-12 in Athens. About 130 people attended, many of them Greek attorneys, by far the largest assembly in this group's history. The meeting took place about a month after the enactment in Greece of a mediation law...
For the past two years, Lawrence Newman has chaired a Working Group at the CPR Institute studying determination of damages in arbitration, and he advises that the group's end product, a Protocol on Determination of Damages in Arbitration, has now been released. Its full text appears below....
Attention must be paid to an important new publication from the Insurance Institute of London, Alternative Dispute Resolution in Practice. Written by a team of contributors (of which I am one) under the Chairmanship of Paul Moss of Montpelier Re, and assembled through the tireless efforts of General Editor Alex...
Readers may remember a post concerning game theory and negotiation strategy that appeared in April 2010. It has proven one of the most frequently visited posts in the past year. A featured speaker on the panel reported in that post has contacted me to advise that many of his ideas have...
This post comes from the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, where a team from the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has worked on a film documenting the tensions between operators of two hydroelectric dams and the communities that were inundated, destroyed and displaced during the...
For many years, the New Jersey Court Rules have empowered certain judges to issue Orders of Referral to Mediation. Administered by the state's Administrative Office of the Courts, the New Jersey mediation program was way ahead of its time and has prompted tens of thousands of civil mediations. The program is about...
Thanks to Paul Lurie's remarkable list-serve, we have a draft of Tom Stipanowich's paper from the 2010 Fordham Conference, titled "Revelation and Reaction: The Struggle to Shape American Arbitration." Concentrating on two of what Stipanowich predicts with be a new "trilogy" of formative Supreme Court arbitration decisions, Stipanowich places both Stolt-Neilsen v....