I was privileged to be included in the recent European Users' Council Symposium at Tylney Hall, near Basingstoke, England, and organized by the London Court of International Arbitration. Present were international practitioners and arbitrators; inside council of global corporations who regularly use international arbitration; professors of international dispute resolution; representatives...
Tag Archives: ADR Institutions
I remember attending the first meeting of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association, in Boston, in 1999. I was on a panel discussing Y2K, and absolutely everybody I had ever met in ADR was in attendance. Y2K has since moved on, but the ABA Dispute Resolution Section...
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) has sold its dispute resolution provider service, IDRS Ltd., to the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CeDR). Both organizations see the sale as the beginning of a closer, mutually beneficial, relationship. ...
The film concerning the use of mediation to resolve generations-old disputes between communities and corporations in Luzon, Philippines, has been completed and released. It is available for free viewing at...
Thanks to the indefatigable Paul Lurie for posting, on his arbitration/mediation Listserve, the news of the recent release of the Annotated Code of Arbitrator Ethics. The Revised Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes was released in 2004 by the American Bar Association and the American Arbitration Association. This newly...
Over the transom from our good friends at the International Mediation Institute comes this announcement: The Inter-Cultural Taskforce of the IMI Independent Standards Commission (ISC), after a year of meetings and consultation, is publishing for comment Draft Criteria for the planned IMI Inter-Cultural Competency Certification of Mediators. Organisations approved by the ISC as an...
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...