Mediation & Popular Culture Routledge Research in Media Law Series

This book examines mediation topics such as impartiality, self-determination and fair outcomes through popular culture lenses. Popular television shows and award-winning films are used as illustrative examples to illuminate under-represented mediation topics such as feelings and expert intuition, conflicts of interest and repeat business, and deception and caucusing. The author also employs research from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to demonstrate that real and reel mediation may have more in common than we think. How mediation is imagined in popular culture, compared to how professors teach it and how mediators practise it, provides important affective, ethical, legal, personal and pedagogical insights relevant for mediators, lawyers, professors and students, and may even help develop mediator identity.

1. Mediation & Popular Culture 2. Impartiality, Self-Determination and Fair Outcomes 3. Feelings and Expert Intuition 4. Conflicts of Interest and Repeat Business 5. Deception and Caucusing 6. Popular Culture and Mediator Identity

Jennifer L. Schulz is Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Canada, and Fellow of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. She is the author of many articles and chapters on mediation and co-editor of A Transnational Study of Law & Justice on TV (2016) and Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity: Law and Justice on TV (2018). Dr. Schulz has won four teaching awards, a national ADR service award, and is a federal and international research grant recipient. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge; Birkbeck, University of London; the University of Toronto; and a research fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University.