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The Role Of International Arbitrators, Susan Franck
The Role Of International Arbitrators, Susan Franck
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With the advent of the global economy, arbitration has become the preferred mechanism for resolving international disputes. Today international arbitrators resolve billions of dollars worth of disputes.' Arbitration has taken on such prominence in the international context that commentators express "little doubt that arbitration is now the first-choice method of binding dispute resolution" and has "largely taken over litigation."'
Mediating In The Shadow Of Australian Law: Structural Influences On Adr, Nadja Alexander
Mediating In The Shadow Of Australian Law: Structural Influences On Adr, Nadja Alexander
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Mediation has grown rapidly in many Anglophone jurisdictions such as USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and England. The current state of mediation practice in many of these jurisdictions can be traced back to the establishment of community justice centres in the 1970s and 1980s. Mediation is practised in the private sector as well as in a wide range of court-referred programs. In many common law jurisdictions mediation is no longer a form of alternative dispute resolution, it has become primary dispute resolution.