Tag Archives: Human Rights

Conflict Resolution|Human Rights|Teaching

Rutgers Law Students Get It

Conflict Resolution|Human Rights|Teaching

Rutgers Law Students Get It

My friend and colleague Jonathan Hyman asked me to visit his ADR Survey class at Rutgers Law School a few weeks ago.  Teams within the class had been assigned special topics to study and then present to the larger group, and one team was concentrating on the Corporate/Community Dialogue films...

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Conflict Resolution|Human Rights|International

Mohamed ElBaradei Addresses Opening Session of IBA Conference in Dubai

Conflict Resolution|Human Rights|International

Mohamed ElBaradei Addresses Opening Session of IBA Conference in Dubai

 The Annual Conference of the International Bar Association opened on Sunday night October 30, 2011, with an address by Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and, with the IAEA, 2005 Nobel laureate.  He focused on the dynamic state of the Middle East and addressed both the...

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Conflict Resolution|Europe|Human Rights

ADR as a Human Rights Violation (??)

Conflict Resolution|Europe|Human Rights

ADR as a Human Rights Violation (??)

I had a good chuckle at an article that appears in the current issue of Dispute Resolution International, the journal of the Dispute Resolution Section of the International Bar Association.  Daniele Cutolo and Mark Alexander Shalaby discuss a case brought in Italy to test whether an Italian statute requiring mediation...

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Human Rights|International|systems design

ADR and Human Rights: The Saga Continues

Human Rights|International|systems design

ADR and Human Rights: The Saga Continues

Readers of this blog will remember my interest in the work of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations.  His work continues, richer and even more provocative....

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Conflict Resolution|Human Rights

ADR and Human Rights: A Match?

Conflict Resolution|Human Rights

ADR and Human Rights: A Match?

This article appears in the April 2009 edition of the Mediation Newsletter of the International Bar Association. An entire day of the 2008 IBA Conference in Buenos Aires was devoted to the topic of the interrelationship among Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights.  Organized by James E. Brumm, A....

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