Our final report from the 2014 Spring Meeting of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section addresses Ellen Waldman of Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Lola Akin Ojelabi of La Trobe University in Australia's discussion of “Mediation Ethics and Substantive Justice: A View from Rawls’ Original Position.” The question is whether mediation...
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Continuing the series of reports from the ABA Dispute Resolution Section, Colin Rule, Ethan Katsh, Jeff Aresty and Daniel Rainey offered a panel on “Building an Online Justice System: ODR and the Courts.” Colin Rule said he was attracted not to the algorithmic powers of technology and the internet, but...
This is the first of a series of posts on panels presented at the 16th ABA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting, in Miami, Florida, April 2-5, 2014. John Lande, Kurt Dettman, Phil Armstrong and Deborah Masucci gave a panel on early planned dispute resolution. The goal of the integrated approach is...
THE EXERCISE: Imagine a market with fully successful commercial mediation. (Its success is measured by the breadth of take-up by commercial disputants and the infrequency of litigated cases involving business disputes.) What are its attributes? What conditions gave rise to this broadly-accepted use of mediation as a day-to-day method of...
The UIA World Mediation Forum in Houston has generated the usual mixture of stimulation and camaraderie. The first panel concerned "Mediation: The Judicial Perspective Here and Abroad." Aleš Zalar, former Minister of Justice of Slovenia and currently President of the European Centre for Dispute Resolution of Ljubljana, moderated the panel, and...
I have been importuned by the ABA Dispute Resolution Section to remind readers of its upcoming Spring Meeting in Miami,Florida on April 2-5, 2014. And who better to be importuned by? It is a great organization and the Spring Meeting has been "the place to see and be seen" since...
Michael Leathes, a founder of the International Mediation Institute and former in-house counsel of high accomplishment, has written to correct our immediately prior post: Regarding the penultimate para, actually there are examples of deal mediations out there. In fact, we have a little section on the IMI portal devoted to this...