Global Pound Conference

ADR, Arbitration, Global Pound Conference, Mediation

(Pepperdine University School of Law)/ /1 Comment
Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

In the forty years since new visions and challenges for the administration of American justice were offered at the 1976 Pound Conference, a Quiet Revolution has altered the landscape of public and private dispute resolution around the world. (See Living the Dream of ADR) Recently, a series of day-long meetings styled as the Global Pound…

ADR, Arbitration, Arbitration Awards, Arbitrator Intelligence, Arbitrators, Global Pound Conference, ICC

(MDisputes) and (International Dispute Resolution)/ /1 Comment

Mark Twain once wrote that a person with a new idea “is a crank until the idea succeeds.”1)Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar, in Following the Equator (1897). The Merriam Webster dictionary defines “crank” as “an annoyingly eccentric person.” Innovations and new ideas on the verge of implementation seem to arrive almost weekly in international arbitration. They…