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...
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...
Peter Kaskell died on December 12, 2019. He was a dear friend whom I met at the CPR Institute and who taught me not just the delicate arts of demand-led commercial dispute management, but the even more delicate arts of humility, service and attention to others' needs. At the age...
I have been teaching negotiation for nine years now, and the gratification never ends. For the past several years, I've made a final assignment called the "Blue Paperclip Exercise," brought to my attention by Hal Abramson, in which a student is given a paperclip and assigned to increase initial value...