Multidisciplinary Dynamics of Mediation Volume 2

This book casts an analytical eye on the legal dynamics of mediation premised on a multidisciplinary approach. This is the very first book to meld mediation and applied psychology with a view to portray the myriad of cognitive biases with which the great bulk of legal actors grapple/tussle with in mediation settings. The overriding goal of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary, comprehensive, and full-fledged framework to legal dynamics of mediation while emphasizing the paramount importance of incorporative mediation to protect the fundamental rights of the weakest disputant in the room—something that has not been done yet. This book is the very first one to provide a framework/frame of reference to the usage of artificial intelligence in the remit of both mediation settings and Restorative Relationship Session (RRS).

Part III: Legal Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter IV, Section I: Effective access to justice and formal access to justice.- Part IV: Cross-Border and Cross-Cultural Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter V: Adaptive Mediation: why do mediation settings should be adapted to the intricacies of the case at hand, the disputants’ cultural background, the disputants´ legal culture and the disputants ‘modality of communication in cross-border and cross-cultural disputes.- Chapter VI: Long-Term Harmony-Equilibrium and Wealth Procedural Maximization.- Part V: How Should a Four-Tiered Model of Mediation: An Iure in Condendo Proposal.- Chapter VII: The importance of Behavioural Law and Economics to propel the Four-Tiered Model of Mediation.

Hugo Luz dos Santos is a Ph.D. in Mediation (2019-2021). He is a University Professor at City University of Macau. He teaches Mediation in the Master Degree Program at the Faculty of Law of University of Macau. He is a Fellow of the Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration (FICA, Oxford, United Kingdom). He has published 32 books and authored over 120 papers. Hugo Luz dos Santos has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts of the United Kingdom (London, United Kingdom).