Alternative Dispute Resolution News

I am honored to be appointed a Member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Dispute Resolution Section Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Task Force Working Group III, Guidance with Respect to Special Issues Relating to ODR.

Working Group III is developing standards for the application of technology to dispute resolution processes and practices to enable equitable high quality access to justice and to relationship healing processes.

The Singapore Convention will enter into force six months after the third signatory state to ratify it. 

Below is a dynamic map of countries, not including micro-states, that have either signed or ratified the Convention, so the map will be updated accordingly.

The Singapore Convention is expected to benefit international trade, and businesses choosing mediation as a dispute resolution process in settling their cross-border commercial disputes, by providing a formerly nonexistent framework to facilitate the invocation by parties, and enforcement by the courts of State Parties to the Convention, of international settlement agreements resulting from mediation.

The Convention is also intended to promote the use of mediation as an efficient and flexible option to arbitration and litigation in settling international commercial disputes.