This book casts an analytical eye on the legal dynamics of mediation premised on a multidisciplinary approach. This is the very first book to meld mediation and applied psychology with a view to portray the myriad of cognitive biases with which the great bulk of legal actors grapple/tussle with in mediation settings. The overriding goal of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary, comprehensive, and full-fledged framework to legal dynamics of mediation while emphasizing the paramount importance of incorporative mediation to protect the fundamental rights of the weakest disputant in the room-something that has not been done yet. This book is the very first one to provide a framework/frame of reference to the usage of artificial intelligence in the remit of both mediation settings and Restorative Relationship Session (RRS). Inhaltsverzeichnis -Part I: Social Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter I: How have Luhmann s Social Sub-Systems Interacted in Early America in the Antebellum Period and Middle Age England.- Part II: Cultural Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter II: Gauging the extent to which Culture shapes Mediation.- Chapter III: How Dispute Resolution Unfolds in Cultures of Honour, Cultures of Face and Cultures of Dignity.- Part III: Legal Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter IV, Section I: Effective access to justice and formal access to justice.- Part IV: Cross-Border and Cross-Cultural Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter V: Adaptive Mediation: why do mediation settings should be adapted to the intricacies of the case at hand, the disputants cultural background, the disputants legal culture and the disputants `modality of communication in cross-border and cross-cultural disputes.- Chapter VI: Long-Term Harmony-Equilibrium and Wealth Procedural Maximization.- Part V: How Should a Four-Tiered Model of Mediation: An Iure in Condendo Proposal.- Chapter VII: The importance of Behavioural Law and Economics to propel the Four-Tiered Model of Mediation.
