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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research Part of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Commons, and the Jurisdiction Commons Citation ALEXANDER, Nadja. What's law got to do with it: Mapping modern mediation movements in civil and common law jurisdictions. (2001). Bond Law Review. 13, (2), 1-29. Research Collection School Of Law. Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1881 This Journal Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Collection School Of Law by an authorized administrator of Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University. For more information, please email
[email protected]. WHAT’S LAW GOT TO DO WITH IT? MAPPING MODERN MEDIATION MOVEMENTS IN CIVIL AND COMMON LAW JURISDICTIONS By Nadja Alexander * Mediation: A Flexible Process in a Procrustean Bed? In Australia we call it ‘Mediation’, the French say ‘la mediation’, and t he Germans ‘die Mediation’. The term is global, stemming from the Latin, mediatio; 1 the process universal, its inherent flexibility transcending historical and national legal norms and systemic differences.