MEDIATED CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN EUROPEAN COMMUNITARIAN LAW AND ITS INTERNAL TRANSLATION: STATE OF THE ART AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVEMENT

Authors

  • Belén Hernández Moura Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/redp.2022.67782

Keywords:

ADR, Directive 2008/52/EU, European law of civil procedure, civil and commercial mediation, procedural efficiency

Abstract

This paper presents a snapshot of the state of mediation as a convenient tool for the management of private disputes within the framework of European Community Law and how it is being reflected in Spanish law. Together with a review of the normative precedents of Directive 2008/52/EU and the most relevant aspects of the same, the article points out some of the factors that, according to the different implementation studies, could explain the difficulties that court-connected mediation encounters in practice. Once these conditioning factors have been identified, the reader will be able to spot the improvement strategies promoted by the European Union in the most recent Spanish legislative projections in the field of ADR. For these purposes, the most relevant authors have been reviewed and the different working documents published to date by different European institutions have been analyzed. All this has led to the conclusion of an uneven development, far behind the expected after fourteen years of enforcement of Directive 2008/52/EU and with some internal procedural reforms on the way whose efficiency, notwithstanding the doubts that arise in some points, only time will tell.

Author Biography

Belén Hernández Moura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid

Profesora Ayudante Doctora. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Madrid, España. E-mail: belen.hernandez@uc3m.es.

Published

2022-06-04

How to Cite

MOURA, Belén Hernández. MEDIATED CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN EUROPEAN COMMUNITARIAN LAW AND ITS INTERNAL TRANSLATION: STATE OF THE ART AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVEMENT. Revista Eletrônica de Direito Processual, Rio de Janeiro, v. 23, n. 2, 2022. DOI: 10.12957/redp.2022.67782. Disponível em: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/redp/article/view/67782. Acesso em: 2 may. 2025.