International Law,
Alternative Dispute Resolution
May 15, 2025
How a creative mediator's proposal could end the Russia-Ukraine conflict
A mediator's proposal, when creatively designed to offer mutually beneficial solutions, can resolve even the most intractable disputes, as exemplified by an imaginative, non-monetary proposal for peace and economic cooperation between Russia and Ukraine.
Civil trial lawyers are all familiar with a mediator's proposal. The settlement device is typically the final tactic in a neutral's toolbox to bridge a gap between the parties. Since retiring from the Los Angeles Superior Court, I have made mediator proposals in cases only where I think it will work because the parties truly desire to resolve their dispute rather than engage in further discovery and incur expert fees.
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