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F. Peter Phillips on December 29, 2020
TOPICS: Courts, Mediation
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...
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F. Peter Phillips on May 14, 2020
TOPICS: Conflict Resolution, International, Teaching
My first real-life experience with pandemic-forced online dispute resolution was in early April -- a baptism by fire. I coached the New York Law School team at the Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, held in Vienna annually except this year. Within about ten days' time, the organizers...
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F. Peter Phillips on January 17, 2020
TOPICS: Uncategorized
Two experts in the Milan UIA Mediation Forum addressed “Abuse
in the Mediation Process.” The speakers were
Renate Dendorfer-Ditges of Bonn and Galyna Yeromenko of Kyev. The contributions of Anne-Karin Grill of
Vienna were also represented, though her illness frustrated her in-person
participation. Topics included bad-faith
participation, lying by the parties or by the mediator,...
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