My class in International Commercial Dispute Resolution at New York Law School is now finished, and each student was required to prepare a paper on a related topic of their choice. All were good, happily, and some students wrote on topics that readers of this blog may find useful. With their...
Part I of this post summarized reports from Spain, South Africa, Bahrain, Pakistan and the Balkans. This second and concluding part presents reports from Argentina, the United States and Europe broadly....
A panel of eight speakers at the Madrid IBA Conference spoke on "Projects, Practices and Policies: Developments from the World of Mediation." This is the first of a two-part report on the presentations offered....
The recent Conference of the International Bar Association in Madrid convened many of the leading practitioners and theorists in international law. The Dispute Resolution Section of the IBA offered panels prepared by its Arbitration Committee (co-chairs Pierre Bienvenu of Canada and Guido Santiago Tawil of Argentina) and its Mediation Committee (chair...
On July 24, 2009, the Chinese Supreme People's Court issued Several Opinions on Establishing and Improving of a Dispute Resolution System and the Linking of Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism. Thanks to Andrew Aglionby and his stalwart crew at Baker & McKenzie's China office, we have a translation of this...
Last year I had occasion to show a mediation video to a group of senior claims executives of European insurance companies who had assembled in Zurich. They loved it, and I was reminded just how powerful this video is to introduce the process of cross-border, cross-cultural interest-based facilitated negotiation to business...
Readers of this blog will remember my interest in the work of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations. His work continues, richer and even more provocative....