Alternative Dispute Resolution
Oct. 25, 2014
Should mediators be agents of control?
A recent film I saw got me thinking: Are mediators "control agents" or "service providers"?
Robert S. Mann
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ADR Services, Inc.
Email: rmann@adrservices.com
Robert mediates and arbitrates business, real estate and construction disputes.
In his brilliant four-hour documentary "At Berkeley," set in 2010 at UC Berkeley, the famous filmmaker Frederick Wiseman shows us the Cal administration struggling with declining economic support from the state of California in the face of rapidly rising costs without allowing a decline in academic excellence. During a scene showing a meeting of high-level Cal administrators, one of the participants observes that most Cal students view the administrative personnel with whom they d...
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