Arbitrators, mediators, lawyers, ADR trainers and professors have many excellent guides to assist them in doing their job. But what about the guy inside the company who has a cross-border dispute on his hands and needs to deal with it with intelligence, elegance and efficiency? Or at least not flub it? Two deeply experienced lawyers have come to the rescue.
I had written here in anticipation of the March 29, 2010, Joint Symposium on International Investment Law and ADR, held by UNCTAD and the Washington and Lee School of Law. It was a smashing and impressive success, due to the remarkable convening powers of hosts Susan D. Franck of Washington and Lee and Anna Joubin-Bret of UNCTAD. My expectations were very high, and predictably they were variously exceeded and frustrated. Even among the Great and the Good, and despite a truly inspirational White Paper that preceded the Symposium, we are still a long way from dealing with international investor conflicts as if they were a “problem” and not a “case.” Read more »
From the invaluable BASESwiki comes news of just the development I and others have pounded the table about: A long-term project that features a formal and permanent ”canary-in-the-mine” that identifies and addresses problems early on, and successfully prevents conflicts. Read more »
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. Read more »
