The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that "mediators have disclosure obligations which are similar to the recusal requirements imposed on judges." This is so despite the acknowledgement that mediators have no authority whatsoever over the parties they are assisting, and despite the fact that a bad...
Deborah Masucci, Chair of the International Mediation Institute, has sent around a forceful message asking the international mediation community to support initiatives to ensure that agreements reached during mediation have the status of enforceable contracts, in all jurisdictions around the world. The initiative resembles the effort 60 years ago to make...