{"title":"In Praise of Mediation Observers","authors":"David A. Hoffman","doi":"10.1002/alt.21950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.21950","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Like many mediators, I am asked from time to time by mediators-in-training whether they might observe a mediation. I invariably say “yes,” and they sit in on one or two mediations from start to finish. I consistently hear from them that the experience is valuable, and some say invaluable.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 6","pages":"89-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137885843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Science of Hearing Effectively","authors":"Robert Angelo Creo","doi":"10.1002/alt.21952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.21952","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a young lawyer, I attended informal lunches with senior practitioners and judges at a restaurant which reserved two round tables daily for the legal profession to congregate on an ad hoc basis.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 6","pages":"91-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137885372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Government Agencies, In Search of Disputes","authors":"Adam Samuel","doi":"10.1002/alt.21947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.21947","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Normally, dispute resolution involves two parties in conflict with each other. But the United Kingdom's financial services regulators specialize in creating schemes where there is strictly speaking only one participant: the regulated firm that has broken their rules.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 5","pages":"74-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137545195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking the ‘MIC’: Questioning the European Union Rationale for Establishing an Investment Treaties Court","authors":"Manuel P. Barrocas","doi":"10.1002/alt.21948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.21948","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The European Union Commission (EC), after the 2009 entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (available at https://bit.ly/34TUxpu) updating the European Union, acquired a new competence in the foreign investment field among other areas of law.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 5","pages":"75-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137551534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What's Next? Suggestions for the Future of Early Dispute Resolution Processes","authors":"John Lande","doi":"10.1002/alt.21949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.21949","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The alternative dispute resolution community always has aspired to innovate and improve traditional processes of dispute resolution. This was expressed in 1982 by former Chief Justice Warren Burger when he asked, “Isn't there a better way?” This certainly reflects the views of Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) proponents.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 5","pages":"79-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137551533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristen M. Blankley, Ashley M. Votruba, Logen M. Bartz, Lisa M. Pytlikzillig
{"title":"Never Assume What Your Clients Know About Mediation and Arbitration","authors":"Kristen M. Blankley, Ashley M. Votruba, Logen M. Bartz, Lisa M. Pytlikzillig","doi":"10.1002/alt.21946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.21946","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The alternative dispute resolution revolution is certainly present in the U.S legal system. Many legal disputes are subject to mandatory mediation, whether by contract, statute, court rule, or court order. See, e.g., Ben Barlow, “Divorce Child Custody Mediation: In Order to Form a More Perfect Disunion?” 52 <i>Cle. St. L. Rev.</i> 499, (2004-2005) (discussing mandatory mediation in the context of family cases); Michael Z. Green, “Proposing a New Paradigm for EEOC Enforcement after 35 Years: Outsourcing Charge Processing by Mandatory Mediation,” 105 <i>Dick. L. Rev.</i> 305 (2001) (discussing mandatory mediation of employment claims).</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 5","pages":"73-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137545194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Survey of Early Dispute Resolution Movements","authors":"John Lande","doi":"10.1002/alt.21943","DOIUrl":"10.1002/alt.21943","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In most social movements like the abolitionist, civil rights, pro-choice, pro-life, and evangelical movements, members typically self-identify as belonging to those movements. And outsiders generally recognize the movements as such.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 4","pages":"57-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90859962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery in Aid of Foreign Arbitration Proceedings Unfairly Imposes Tremendous Costs on U.S. Companies","authors":"Derek T. Ho, Eliana M. Pfeffer","doi":"10.1002/alt.21944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.21944","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By the time this article is published, the Supreme Court will have heard March 23 arguments in two consolidated cases involving the application of 28 U.S.C. § 1782: <i>ZF Automotive US, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd.</i>, No. 21-401 (U.S. Supreme Court docket page, with the parties’ and amicus briefs available at https://bit.ly/3EW1FOp), and <i>AlixPartners, LLC v. Fund for Protection of Investor Rights in Foreign States</i>, No. 21-518 (original docket filings available at https://bit.ly/3JDufYD, but the case has been consolidated at the <i>ZF Automotive</i> docket page linked above as of the Dec. 10 cert grants).</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 4","pages":"58-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137724362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Power of Silence, Pause, and Delay","authors":"Robert Angelo Creo","doi":"10.1002/alt.21945","DOIUrl":"10.1002/alt.21945","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the 1960s, as an awkward teenager exploring how to create social relationships within my peer group, especially girls, I assumed that there had to be constant conversation with no gaps.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 4","pages":"59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77789778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playing Roles in Classes Produces Real Problem-Solving and Negotiation Skills","authors":"Lawrence Susskind","doi":"10.1002/alt.21937","DOIUrl":"10.1002/alt.21937","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Last summer, I prepared 11 short course outlines on specialized negotiation and dispute resolution topics and posted them on PON's website. (See PON's Teaching Negotiation Resource Center at www.pon.harvard.edu/store.)</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"40 3","pages":"41-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83196668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}