Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Klaus J. Hopt and Felix Steffek, Mediation: Principles and Regulation in Comparative Perspective (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013), lx +1347 pp., ISBN 9780199653485

  • Book Review
  • Published:
European Business Organization Law Review Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. See, among other work of this nature and scale, G. de Palo and M. B. Trevor, eds., EU Mediation: Law and Practice (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2012); N. Alexander, Global Trends in Mediation, 2nd edn. (Alphen aan den Rijn, Kluwer Law International 2006).

    Google Scholar 

  2. P. C. H. Chan, ‘Efficiency and Truth in Civil Fact-finding: The Evolving Role of the Judge in Mainland China and Hong Kong and the Effect of the Policy Preference for Court Mediation on Fact-finding in the People’s Courts’, in C. H. van Rhee and A. Uzelac, eds., Truth and Efficiency in Civil Litigation: Fundamental Aspects of Fact-finding and Evidence-taking in a Comparative Context (Antwerp, Intersentia 2012) pp. 231–260, at pp. 249–256.

    Google Scholar 

  3. P. C. H Chan, D. Chan and L. Chen, ‘China: Hong Kong. Selective Adoption of the English Woolf Reforms’, in C. H. van Rhee and Y. L. Fu, eds., Civil Litigation in China and Europe: Essays on the Role of the Judge and the Parties (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, Vol. 31) (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London and New York, Springer 2014 forthcoming).

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  4. It is most interesting to compare the conciliation proceedings in Switzerland (pp. 1205–1206) and the Ontario mandatory mediation approach (pp. 932–941) with the mandatory system of mediation for civil and commercial disputes in Italy (p. 670).

  5. Chan, supra n. 2, at pp. 254–255.

  6. For a synopsis of Chinese arbitration and the med-arb procedure, see P.C.H. Chan, ‘Mediation Options for Resolving Commercial Disputes in China: A Guide for Foreign Enterprises’, Tijdschrift voor Civiele Rechtspleging (2012) pp. 49–56.

  7. Chan, supra n. 2, at p. 252.

  8. P. C. H. Chan, ‘The Enigma of Civil Justice in Imperial China: A Legal Historical Enquiry’, 19 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2012) pp. 317–337, at pp. 322–323.

    Google Scholar 

  9. For an example of such a comparative table, see De Palo and Trevor, supra n. 1, Appendix A.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Peter C. H. Chan (Teaching Fellow)

Authors
  1. Peter C. H. Chan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Chan, P.C.H. Klaus J. Hopt and Felix Steffek, Mediation: Principles and Regulation in Comparative Perspective (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013), lx +1347 pp., ISBN 9780199653485. Eur Bus Org Law Rev 14, 613–618 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1566752912001322

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1566752912001322

Search

Navigation