Category: Legislation

This is a follow-up to the author’s previous article that explained why the Appellate Division, First Department, was wrong in...

Disputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly HayesOn Monday, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Oil States...

Originally published on the Indisputably blog here.As they say, if two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary. It...

Introduction The article describes the authors’ experience teaching a six session course called “Think Like a Mediator” on conflict resolution...

Originally published at Psychology TodayMorton Deutsch, eminent psychologist, Columbia University professor, mentor extraordinaire, and one of the founders of the...

Disputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly HayesThe legal saga over a National Football League (“NFL”) running back’s...

PGP Mediation Blog by Phyllis G. PollackOn July 13, 2017, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council passed an Apology Law ( Apology Ordinance...

Morrow Mediation Blog by Bernard MorrowMost of us don’t go to the symphony to watch the conductor or to a sporting...

Noted lawyer Gerry Spence is as accomplished a painter as he is a trial lawyer.   In both of these activities...

JAMS ADR Blog by Chris PooleThe problem of access to and maintenance of the secrecy of contracts or contract terms...

This is a book review of Private Dispute Resolution in International Business: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration [Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2015]...

From the CPR blog. My last column described the cultural, economic and structural changes in the legal and business communities that...

Dispute Settlement Counsel by Michael Zeytoonian.In our last blog post, the first in this two-part post about the case for...

(Note: This is a fictional story based on fact. Quotations are used for literary purposes and do not reflect actual...

Kluwer Mediation BlogIt was fifty years ago at the end of May that the Beatles launched the album (or LP...

Business Conflict Blog by Peter PhillipsA few months ago we posted disconcerting news of a dissatisfied party to a California...

This article was originally published in the September/October 2016 issue of The Bencher, a bi-monthly publication of the American Inns...

Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation by Dan SimonIt’s entirely understandable that retired judges and experienced litigators would want...

Indisputably Guest post by Hiro AragakiFOI Hiro Aragaki (Loyola-LA) provides his thoughts on last week’s United Airlines debacle. In the...

Whose Privilege Is it Anyway?   A mediator is hired to settle a pre-litigation antitrust dispute between Plaintiff (Sony) and...

From Mervyn Malamed's Positive Conflict Management BlogMediation is a non-binding, voluntary, informal dispute settlement option, designed to avoid litigation and...

On January 12, 2017, the Wisconsin Supreme Court approved Rule Petition 16-04 that expanded the role of lawyer mediators in...

Disputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly HayesOn March 1st, the International Court of Arbitration of the International...

JAMS ADR Blog by Chris PooleHow much of the failure to grasp current controversies over campus Title IX investigations come...

Disputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly HayesThe Supreme Court of Texas has once again declined to consider...

Kluwer Mediation Blog and Kluwer Arbitration BlogDespite the heavy workload, practicing international arbitration can be fun; you are always challenged...

Mediation is often considered an excellent means of conflict resolution for personal or family disputes, but the benefits of mediation...

Indisputably Click to review Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. ***I want to add several things to my...

PGP Mediation Blog by Phyllis G. PollackOn December 1, 2016, The California Law Revision Commission (“CLRC”) met once again to...

Joint fact-finding (JFF) rests on devising a deliberative process to investigate critical technical issues in a format that is jointly...