Many of the presentations at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Meeting introduced new books in the field. A notable example was Prof. Lela Love and her co-editor Glen Parker explaining the ongoing effort to open up mediation to people around the world who have may not have experienced it by...
Those who know me, know that I am an avid enthusiast of Richard Wagner's theatre works. This year alone I have attended a Ring Cycle in Washington, a performance of Das Rheingold in Chicago, a new productions of Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera, another Tristan at the English...
A recent trip to Turkey included a delightful visit at the offices of leading Turkish law firm Hergüner Bilgen Özeke and several of its members, including H. Tolga Danisman. Tolga and I met in the most recent convening of the UIA World Mediation Forum, in Amsterdam, and it was a...
In the final report from the June 2015 convening of the UIA World Mediation Forum, Elena Koltsaki of Thessalonia, Greece, led a panel addressing online dispute resolution (ODR) from an EU perspective. She noted two principles at the outset: First, a central goal of EU regulation is consumer protection and the...
Our friend Giuseppe De Palo reports that the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (“JURI”) will discuss mediation again at the February 26, 2015, ‘Civil Law & Justice Forum’ in Brussels, and the ADR Center has been asked to present a follow-up to its 2014 study, “Rebooting the Mediation Directive.” The Center has prepared a...
Mediator Mallory Stevens sends the provocative summary of a recent meeting of the World Mediation Organization, via Maria Volpe's ListServe (reproduced with Ms. Stevens' permission):...
We had previously noted the recent, extraordinarily ambitious and incisive report addressing the current state of the European Directive on ADR. We now hear from one of its authors, Prof. Giuseppe De Palo, of a conference on the topic in London, that is available worldwide by internet link. The announcement...