Last week it was Paris: a spot of lecturing on disputomania with an international gathering of construction MSc students. This week it was Dublin: listening to lectures on disputomania with ar international gathering of arbitrators, adjudicators and mediators and (I nearly forgot) conciliators. But first, it's time for a few asides. Asides always happen on these sorts of trips. My Paris stay included a visit to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). One of its functions is to appoint arbitrators to disputes all over the world. The students -and me, too - were very interested in the slip road just outside the ICC front door which leads to an extremely big dispute. Princess Diana's fate was decided in the tunnel at the end of it.
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