The China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CPPIT) in conjunction with its Hunan Province Sub-Council convened a dynamic Mediation Summit in Changcha, China, on 12-13 September 2018. The first panel discussed implications of the Belt/Road Initiative, announced five years ago. GAO Xiaoli, Deputy Chief Judge of the Civil Tribunal of the...
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Deborah Masucci, Chair of the International Mediation Institute, advises: "Yesterday [25 June 2018],during the 51st Session of UNCITRAL, the final drafts were finalized for a Convention on the Enforcement of Mediation Settlements and a Model Law for the same. The drafts are being referred to the Commission for adoption later this...
Last year, New York Law School and the ABA Business Law Section convened all three of the CEOs of the national ADR organizations, plus other leaders, to address persistent issues of lack of diversity in the mediation and arbitration profession. This year, on the afternoon of January 17, 2018, the...
The Union Internationale des Avocats held its 24th World Forum of Mediation Centres in Singapore on October 13-14. In addition to the usual high level of discourse and the unparalleled opportunity to meet new friends and keep the old, this particular Forum offered the additional opportunity to reassess the extraordinary...
Colleagues at both the CCPIT Mediation Centers and the newly-minted Mainland-Hong Kong Joint Mediation Center have extended invitations to what promises to be a fascinating conference on 18-19 September in the beautiful city of Hangzhou. The invitation is a broad one and I encourage those interested to contact the link provided...
The ADR event of every year is the Spring Meeting of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Spring Meeting. The Section has announced that proposals for programming for the April 4-7, 2018 Meeting are now being solicited. More surprisingly, the deadline for proposals is only a few weeks away -- Friday,...
A collection of Blaise Pascal’s letters, published in 1657, included a letter that contained the apology, ”Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." That is to say, “I wrote a longer letter than usual because I did...