New today on AUSPUBLAW: Reflections from Frank Pasquale (@frankpasquale.bsky.social) on Yee-Fui Ng’s book ‘Combatting the Code: Regulating Automated Government Decision-Making in Comparative Context’: www.auspublaw.org/blog/2025/11...

This short article is a grateful acknowledgement and more thorough response to a reader, who asked an insightful question that challenged me to set out a little of the learning design approach I have used in building WorkAccord Learning. www.linkedin.com/pulse/thank-...

I wonder if, beyond the politics of Left or Right, we are actually starting to see the emergence of a new politics of Affordability and whether that might be the real significance of the NYC Mayoral race. If so, how far might those ripples extend? #Affordabiity #NewPolitics #NYC

Curious about a #DisputeResolution strategy born at the intersection of #disability and #accessibility? @workaccord.bsky.social wrote reviews of every chapter in my book focused on using Structured Negotiation with #veterans in #Australia www.lflegal.com/2025/11/stru... #BookSky #ConflictResolution

What can fairy tales tell us about mediation? In this Field Note, I reflect on Vigen Gourian’s exposition of Margery Williams’ "The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real" and sketch out some connections to mediation as a practice of integrative peacemaking. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

This Field Note opens a series exploring what it means to practise mediation with moral imagination inside the integrative-law tradition. andrew267.substack.com/p/the-imagin... #IntegrativeLaw #MoralImagination #ADRDesign #TheImaginativeMediator

We're now more than half way through Lainey Feingold's Structured Negotiation process and reading about overcoming obstacles during a negotiation. @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation #ADRDesign substack.com/@andrewcwood...

Lately, I've been reflecting on my #DisputeResolution work as something closely related to #LearningDesign, allowing us to bring the human dimensions of a dispute to light and to create space for collaborative and care-full attentiveness, response, and redress. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

It's not easy to model the trust expected of others when drafting an invitation to negotiate. Often, it goes against instinct and training. It might also set up the need for an internal negotiation with your own client. www.linkedin.com/pulse/readin... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation

Thinking, this week, about how we can build and nurture the #StructuredNegotiation mindset. As learning designers, we’d like to think that it would be possible to design a program that could support the development of a significant change in attitude. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

In our reading of Lainey Feingold's (2021) Structured Negotiation 2nd ed, we are discovering that “the Right Thing to Do” may be established in relational rather than in legal space. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation #ADRDesign

I used to think we were mediating disputes; but perhaps we are mediating peace. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

The latest in my series of 'Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking' delves further into the ways in which mediation and structured negotiation might work together to serve the requirements of relational justice. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... #mediation #structurednegotiation #VeteranSupport

Proof-of-concept testing of our Veterans' Mediation model on a hypothetical "offsetting" challenge, revealed the model's logical sequence for moral repair. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... #Mediation #VeteranSupport #MoralRepair

We launched WorkAccord Learning on the Heartbeat platform earlier this week - quietly, intentionally, and with care. We also adopted a freemium model. This article shares why we made that choice, who this space is for, and what we’re building together. www.linkedin.com/posts/workac...

When we tested our Veterans' Mediation model we discovered that "Mediation is more than an event." From:"Wicked Problems and Institutional Courage - Testing Relational Justice in Veteran Entitlement Offsetting." andrew267.substack.com/p/wicked-pro... #Mediation #VeteranSupport #CareEthics

This latest Field Note is not a critique. It is a mapping. We are not yet asking what ought to be done differently. We are first asking: What exactly is the space we are being asked to enter as mediators? andrew267.substack.com/p/holding-sp... #Mediation #CareEthics #VeteranSupport

Journalising the design process for a veterans' mediation program has been a valuable, reflective discipline. Here I grapple with the challenges: How do we design space for the exercise of institutional courage and moral repair? Why do we need to? andrew267.substack.com/p/finding-ro...

It has been a worthwhile challenge to journalise the design process for a Veterans' mediation program. Here's a little of what has been directing my thinking abut why such a program needs to be "reparative" rather than "restorative". andrew267.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

Next month sees the start of a series of online workshops, designed for practising mediators. Our Mediation Theory workshop has been updated and revised and is one of a series of four workshops to be held over the next year. To find out more visit scmc.sacro.org.uk/training-cou...

"It's Not Fair!" I’ve been reflecting on what we're saying about “fairness” in our design for a veterans' mediation program. But it’s not so much about what we're saying. It’s more about what we're hearing. And to hear, we have to listen attentively. #justice open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

Who Is Talking about Distributive Justice in Veterans’ Mediation Programs? There is talk about military justice, criminal justice and procedural justice — as one might expect. But the near-silence around distributive justice in veterans’ systems is disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

Sending out a friendly ‘Coo-eee!’ to all the mediators, conciliators, peacemakers, ADR program designers, collaborative thinkers, and post-lawyers in the woods or on the web. If you’re exploring new paths in conflict resolution, let’s find each other. #mediation #DisputeResolution #PeaceMaking

Towards a Theory & Practice of Relational Justice in Veterans’ Mediation “A mediation program that is not well calibrated to a coherent theory and practice of justice may be little more than a platform for care-less deal-making.” #Mediation #CareEthics #Veterans open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

 ON DESIGNING A VETERANS’ MEDIATION PROGRAM… “I had to ask whether [that] kind of settlement … a compromise that leaves everyone feeling just a little diminished, a little bit “less”—might, in some contexts, do profound harm.” open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

This week's Field Note from Post-Law Peacemaking: How might we design a #mediation program that could hold disappointment—maintaining and continuing our world, even in the absence of repair— in a way that might allow participants to live in it as well as possible? open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

Two weeks ago, we launched "Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking" - a mendicant writing project about designing a veterans' pro bono mediation program within a care framework and trusting to providence. Today, on a day of "small miracles," this came - a quiet reminder that care is never wasted.

As a post-law mediator, I am imagining a style of #mediation within a #care framework where #competence is shared - not held exclusively by the mediator - where each participant is allowed to practice care within their own capacity to do so. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

As a #mediator, Boundary Lists are an expression of #care, preserving authenticity and preventing overreach. They reflect my professional and emotional competence - not only to describe what I offer, but to guide me in knowing when to say, "No". open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

How do we design mediation processes that reflect care—not just in intent, but in how they are received? At the end of each editorial cycle, I pause, reflect, and open space for what’s next. This week’s “Close-the-Loop” note is now live. www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...

The Architecture of Care: Decentralising Self Designing a Veterans' mediation program around shared care—not delivered care—means decentralising authority, honouring pain & co-holding risk. It’s one thing to “respond”; it’s another to care together. andrew267.substack.com/p/designing-... #CareEthics

Designing a Veterans’ Mediation Program within an ethic of care framework seemed straight forward … until I had to design for #responsiveness and ask: “ How do we ensure that care is not shaped by what we think we’re providing, but by how it is received?” open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

A few thoughts on starting a new Substack - "Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking" - and designing an Audience Charter. #PostLaw #IntegrativeLaw #Substack #Writing www.linkedin.com/pulse/field-...

Allow me to introduce my new substack: "Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking". Nothing is hidden behind a paywall, though I might introduce a voluntary subscription to support this work later on ... once I feel I have earned the right to ask. andrew267.substack.com?r=5g48pk&utm...

Thinking about how we design ADR programs with care. This week I shared a field note on a veterans' mediation program—one grounded in an ethic of care. Success in this work isn’t settlement or compromise. It’s repair. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

andrew267.substack.com/p/gday-mate "Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking" is just starting to find its feet on Substack. [Image is of a pair of Australian kookaburras perched on a fence, looking like they're having a good old chat and maybe a laugh. Perhaps they're laughing at me!]

Telstra Business Website Services is being discontinued. So, our WorkAccord website’s taking a well-earned nap while we rebuild. Back soon with fresh energy! Here's how you can find us in the meantime. lnkd.in/gm6WDbQM

STEPPING BACK, MOVING FORWARD Last week, I relinquished my Honorary Life Fellowship with RCSA as part of a broader shift in focus to honor the ethical foundation of impartiality in mediation. I’ve shared a longer reflection, where I explore my reasons in more depth. lnkd.in/g35-KkEk

Sometimes we want to hang by ourself, other times with others. Today for #citizenwellbeingscientist we are being social for our #selfcare www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog/3-minut...

We've been fascinated to watch the growth in collective bargaining under the ACCC's small business class exemption. The ALNFA's comprehensive class exemption seems to be leading the way in showing what's possible. It will be exciting to see how it develops. www.linkedin.com/pulse/collec...

In this article,we're encouraging #SMEs to take a pro-active approach to planning for #innovation and #collaboration well ahead of when the next RfT asks for it. If you leave it till then... you've left it too late. www.linkedin.com/pulse/rft-tr...

Employee or Independent Contractor? For those free spirits among us, who prefer to retain their independence. #Australia #EmploymentLaw www.linkedin.com/pulse/free-s...

How might #CollaborativeLaw differ from #CollaborativeADR? Provisional speculations. www.workaccord.com.au/collaborativ...