International Commercial Mediation

Realizing Rationality: An Empirical Assessment of International Commercial Mediation, by University of Missouri Law Professor S.I. Strong, is forthcoming in the Washington and Lee Law Review.

The abstract says "Numerous public and private entities have launched initiatives to encourage mediation in international commercial and investment disputes, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has taken up a proposal from the U.S. Government to consider whether a new treaty involving international commercial mediation is warranted."

Professor Strong's article "analyzes findings from the first-ever large-scale empirical study on international commercial mediation, providing hard data about current behaviors, beliefs and practices and testing fundamental theories about the use, nature and future of this particular process."

$5000 Prize in Open Competition for ADR Research

St. John's University School of Law's Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution awards $5000 each year to scholars "whose published empirical research has furthered the advancement and understanding of the values and skills of dispute resolution."

The Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Nomination Form

Negotiation Theory and Empirical Data

New article by Missouri Law Professor John Lande on Negotiation Theory, with empirical data

A Framework for Advancing Negotiation Theory: Implications from a Study of How Lawyers Reach Agreement in Pretrial Litigation

Lande argues that "The prevailing negotiation theory tries to fit lots of square pegs into just two round holes - adversarial or cooperative bargaining."