Our cultural backgrounds, including national legal training and practice, determine much of how we perceive, approach and react in potential or present disputes. How do cultural differences influence the planning of dispute prevention and, most of all, processes of dispute resolution, such as especially mediation? How to cope with these differences when different worlds meet (out of court)? This panel of experts in cross-cultural dispute settlement explores the cultural influences on alternative dispute resolution in international business disputes.
About the speakers
Elina Mereminskaya is a partner at Wagemann Lawyers & Engineers in Santiago de Chile. She specializes on dispute prevention, claim management and arbitration, in particular in construction, infrastructure, mining and energy project, both private and public. Elina is originally a Russian lawyer and obtained her PhD in Germany.
Robert S. Pé (LSE LLB 1990) is an independent arbitrator and mediator and a member of Arbitration Chambers in Hong Kong and London. He was previously a partner of a leading international law firm and led their Asia disputes practice. He has rich experience of handling international business disputes in Asia and elsewhere.
Eve Pienaar has been mediating commercial and workplace disputes since 2007. A UK solicitor, she was brought up in France and has worked in-house as General Counsel with international companies such as Warner Bros and the RIBA. Eve is passionate about mediation, is fluent in French and Spanish and has mediated cases in both languages.
About the Chair
Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp is Associate Professor at the LSE Law Department. He specializes in international economic transactions, arbitration and dispute resolution. A German-Peruvian binational living in Brussels and London, he works also in German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.