Beyond the Courtroom provides a compilation of articles and chapters by Hal Abramson, a dispute resolution scholar who has made remarkable contributions over his thirty-year career. Professor ...Abramson has focused his research and practice on parties trying to resolve their own disputes.
Beyond the Courtroom provides a compilation of articles
and chapters by a dispute resolution scholar who has made
remarkable contributions over his thirty-year career. Professor
Abramson has focused ...his research and practice on parties trying to
resolve their own disputes. This book includes publications that
have contributed to launching the then new field of mediation
representation with special attention on how attorneys, as gate
keepers to mediation, can effectively represent clients. The book
also includes his original publications that have contributed to
the emerging field of intercultural and international mediation and
the already robust and mature field of negotiations.
Abrahamson talks about Nelson Mandela. His story is one of legendary proportions. After a lifetime as a freedom fighter, twenty-seven years in prison, and only four years after his release, he became ...South Africa's first democratically elected President at the age of seventy-four years old. While he was known internationally as Nelson Mandela, he was known locally as "Tata," meaning "the father," and "Madiba," his clan name.
Beyond
the Courtroom provides a compilation of articles and chapters
by a dispute resolution scholar who has made
remarkable contributions over his thirty-year career. Professor Abramson has
focused ...his research and practice on parties trying to resolve their own
disputes. This book includes publications that have contributed to launching
the then new field of mediation representation with special attention on how
attorneys, as gate keepers to mediation, can effectively represent clients. The
book also includes his original publications that have contributed to the emerging
field of intercultural and international mediation and the already robust and
mature field of negotiations.
“Would you like to go to Delhi to train people in negotiations?” the email message inquires. “Are you kidding?” you think to yourself. “Of course, I would get to do in an exotic location what I enjoy ...doing at home helping others to resolve conflicts. And I also would meet fascinating people and tour an intriguing city and country with a local host.” “YES,” you reply after working out the logistical details. Now as you begin to pack your off-the-shelf training materials, you start to wonder how you should adapt your training for this foreign location. You do not want
From jets to jeans, turbines to telephones, oil to beans—globalization of commerce has increased exponentially in the more than fifty years since the last world wide war. During this time, businesses ...have expanded beyond national borders and markets into “multinational corporations” with international networks of suppliers, customers, employees, and shareholders. Domestic and multinational companies, together with state-owned enterprises, seek strategic advantages by creating joint ventures, alliances, and partnering relationships with foreign enterprises. British Air allies with American Airlines; General Motors joint ventures with Chinese state-owned enterprises; French-German-Japanese construction joint ventures build the airport and approaches in Hong Kong. …
Recently, I was shopping for a notebook computer and encountered an unfamiliar processing chip. The salesperson explained that the Pentium Series III and 4, originally designed for a large desktop ...computer and modified for use in a notebook computer, proved inefficient in meeting the needs of a small, mobile device. Computer manufacturers needed a processor that was custom-designed for the needs of notebooks and so Intel built a new chip, the M Processor, from the ground up.¹ Well, that is what I tried to do in Mediation Representation: Advocating in a Problem-Solving Process.² Rather than simply tweaking the well-honed strategies
Buried in mediation rules can be found a few surprises, some desirable and some not. The rules, usually few in number and quite compact, can contain unexpected opportunities and pitfalls when ...developing a mediation representation plan.¹ This article considers several distinctive issues² that can arise when applying mediation rules to international mediations.
How do you select a mediator in a cross-border dispute whom both sides view as neutral? Parties must be confident in the mediator’s neutrality so that they will trust disclosing information and trust the mediator’s initiatives. Even though professional mediators know to maintain scrupulously their neutrality, parties may
You are bound to be skeptical of any title that claims to cover representing clients anywhere in the world. I surely would be. I reached this sweeping conclusion after much research and testing of ...the materials in my recently published second edition of Mediation Representation¹ and will justify the claim in this chapter. I will demonstrate how the framework for mediation representation presented in the book reflects a universal approach that can be adapted to work within any local context with parties employing their customary practices for representation. However, I also will recommend and illustrate representation practices that may help
Since the 1970s, domestic ADR has grown and evolved into a dynamic field of study and practice that has impacted on the way lawyers in the United States represent their clients. As examined in this ...textbook, lawyers are using new and more sophisticated methods to resolve their clients’ disputes including representing their clients in mediations, minitrials, and innovative variations of arbitration. The end of the Cold War in the early 90s opened opportunities for exporting these “made in the USA” dispute resolution methods. As international markets opened up in the former Soviet Union, China, Latin America, and elsewhere, more opportunities