The third and final student paper I intend to share addresses the emergence of Islamic law in countries that are, or promise to be, important trade partners with western businesses. ...
In January 2001, I attended a CPR Annual Meeting in which Carrie Menkel-Meadow moderated a fascinating panel discussion on "Gender and Negotiation/Mediation." The question presented was: "Does the gender of participants influence expectations, behaviors, performance or outcomes in negotiation and mediation settings?" The panelists included Charles Craver of George Washington...
Wilbur Hicks, Ombuds of the International Monetary Fund (and before that for Shell and Princeton) has directed our attention to the Ombuds Blog. Even a cursory review shows that this is a robust and (for me at least) hitherto overlooked resource for commercial conflict managers....
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...
The firm of Ogletree Deakins and St. Louis University recently held an all-day Employee Dispute Resolution Symposium at the University's very beautiful Busch Student Center. The proceedings were well-attended and it was a privilege for me to be invited to present the opening remarks. The comments of the various speakers, many from...
For as long as I've been active in conflict management, I have been confronted with a quote from Abraham Lincoln about not stirring up litigation. I first saw it on a pamphlet at CPR in 1998. Since then I have since seen it in articles, pamphlets, traning materials, mediation center...
This final post from the Madrid IBA Conference concerns a panel of corporate users who were asked whether subject-matter competence was an important factor in selection of a mediator....