Multidisciplinary Dynamics of Mediation

Hugo Luz dos Santos is a Ph.D. in Mediation (2019-2021). He is a University Professor at City University of Macau. He teaches Mediation in the Master Degree Program at the Faculty of Law of University of Macau. He is a Fellow of the Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration (FICA, Oxford, United Kingdom). He has published 32 books and authored over 120 papers. Hugo Luz dos Santos has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts of the United Kingdom (London, United Kingdom).

• -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.