Class actions are gaining broader European appeal.  So this installment of the International Practice column turns the spotlight onto the development of class actions in the United Kingdom, and in the other European Union member states, as well as analyzes the viability and future continued emergence of this procedural device, including its incorporation into ADR.

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Understand the brain, make better choices in ADR. In Part 2 of his discussion with the principals behind the nonprofit Master Mediation Institute, Robert A. Creo and Monique McKay, International Dispute Negotiation host Michael McIlwrath looks at the science of decision making--and “the science behind mediators’ sense.” As Mike noted in Part I last week, this subject "could be a game changer.”

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Arbitrators, writes London attorney Adam Samuel, should resist the temptation to decide points that are not necessary for the award they are issuing, and not dodge those that are.  Samuel discusses why a "grand statement" should be avoided in constructing an award.

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A huge annual digital technology products and services trade fair in Germany has last month deployed a mediation facility to diffuse information technology disputes. Find out how the Chinese and European Union governments worked with the organizers to head off police raids, which were used in recent years to confiscate allegedly patent-infringing technology products being used by Chinese companies. On the jump, the details, and links to 10 resources.

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In the first of two parts, attorney Mauro Rubino Sammartano provides a view of alternative dispute resolution in commercial matters from his Milan, Italy, vantage point.

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