The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot has been held in Vienna for 31 years, The 32d Moot takes place 11-17 April, 2025. By now the Vis attracts over 1,000 law students and over 350 law schools from around the world. All of them, this year,...
A recent vacation prompted re-assessment of the mediation room, the parties, and the mediator. Partnered by the excellent Danielle Shalov, I spent quite a bit of time during the pandemic training lawyers, including New York State Court staff, basic and advanced mediation skills. And part of that training was always to...
The UIA has sponsored the World Mediation Forum every nine months since 2004. Alas, the gatherings were suspended after the meeting in Zurich in February 2020. Now it has resumed, and the 30th Forum was held in Malaga, Spain, on 16-17 September 2022, to general relief and happiness. Created...
My dear friend Stefano Pavletic, a mediator from Milan Italy, has sent me this thoughtful and timely article that I hope readers will reflect upon. A strange idea of neutrality by Stefano Pavleti? * It is well known that "third party status" of the mediator with respect to the parties, the dispute...
With a new CEO at the helm of Mediate.com, after a generation of loyal and visionary service by co-founder Jim Melamed, the pre-eminent online resource for mediation has now launched an initiative to offer the pre-eminent online resource for arbitration. Launched last week, Arbitrate.com looks to be a winner. The...
As a consequence of the absence of uniform adoption of the Uniform Mediation Act, the confidentiality of mediation communications in various jurisdictions often cannot be assured. Thanks to Alan Waxman, President and CEO of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), for bringing to our attention the...
At the 27th meeting pf the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres, in Milan, Danielle Hutchinson of Melbourne Australia and Jill Goldson of Auckland New Zealand offered a provocative discussion on “Innovative Approaches to Mediation.” Danielle introduced “MyDRHub,” an initiative in party-centric dispute resolution. Referring to Global Pound Conference data, she...