his article compares Russian and USA mediation regulations and explores what the new field of mediation education in Russia can be learnt from the USA. The autor explores the history of developing and the place of the new Russian mediation law and how it fits within the Russian legal system. The article examines crosscultural perspectives of teaching mediation and explains the current goals of mediation courses into the USA and Russia, attempts to understand the system of teaching mediation in different law systems and explains the current goals of these courses.
mediation; mediation courses; mediation education; Russian mediation; US mediation
I. Introduction
This article compares Russia and U.S.A. (USA, US) mediation regulations and explores what the new field of mediation education in Russia can learn from the USA. This article also explores the place of the new Russian mediation law and how the new law fits within the Russian legal system. The article considers questions about special habits of Russian people that can transform the order of applying or approaches to solving the problems into mediation. In particular, this article will review the attractive features of mediation that work in the USA legal field: the confidentiality of the process, the low costs involved, the short time it takes to settle the dispute, the interest-based procedure, and discuss which of these features can work in the Russian legal field as well. Russian cultural values will play a significant role in that question.
This article explores cross-cultural perspectives of teaching mediation and explains the current goals of mediation courses into the USA and Russia, attempts to understand the system of teaching Mediation in different law circumstances and explains the current goals of mediation courses into the USA and Russia. These cross-cultural perspectives will reveal some special and core techniques that the teachers of mediation use in the U.S.A. that Russian teachers of mediation can successfully borrow and apply in Russia.
II. Mediation law and regulations in Russia
1. Historical preview
The institute of mediation officially is relatively new in the Russian Federation.
The Federal Laws 193-FZ "About the alternative dispute resolution process involving a mediator (the mediation procedure)" and 194-FZ "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in connection with the adoption of the Federal Law "About the alternative dispute resolution process involving a mediator (the mediation procedure)" were signed by President Medvedev and accepted on 27 July 2010. These Mediation Laws came into force on January 1, 2011 [1].
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