{"id":6199,"date":"2020-10-01T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:12:44","slug":"the-mediation-law-and-its-white-spot-reinhard-greger-inkovema-podcast-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/blog\/the-mediation-law-and-its-white-spot-reinhard-greger-inkovema-podcast-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mediation Act and its white spot &#8211; Reinhard Greger (INKOVEMA-Podcast #11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container gradient-container-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-four\"><h4 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.5;\"><h4>INKOVEMA Podcast &#8222;Well through time&#8220;<\/h4><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:34;line-height:1.4;\"><h1>#11 &#8211; The Mediation Act and its white spot. The failure of the German legislator in 2012.<\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:20;line-height:1.5;\"><h1>In conversation with Reinhard Greger<\/h1><\/h3><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Well through time. The podcast about mediation, conflict coaching and organisational consulting.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><script class=\"podigee-podcast-player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.podigee.com\/podcast-player\/javascripts\/podigee-podcast-player.js\" data-configuration=\"https:\/\/inkovema.podigee.io\/11-neue-episode\/embed?context=external&token=Gx5iT_d4Gncg3GjVdZOHKg\"><\/script><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><strong>Reinhard Greger, <\/strong>Former judge at the Federal Court of Justice and retired professor at the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, explains the background to his narrow understanding of the law on the <strong>Concept of mediation<\/strong> as well as the consequences that this has for the <strong>Clarification assistance<\/strong> and the <strong>Telephone shuttle mediation<\/strong> has.  He also talks about his disappointments in the course of the Mediation Act, which has hardly led to the <strong>Promotion of out-of-court dispute resolution methods<\/strong> (beyond mediation) and with the institute of the court of arbitration &#8222;in the rucksack&#8220; no new out-of-court procedure was established. Oh yes, and what all this has to do with the <strong>Liability for road accidents<\/strong> in road traffic is not missing either.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><h2>Contents:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Personal path<\/strong> by the judge and professor of civil procedure law on the methods of out-of-court dispute resolution, including mediation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions and tasks of the state court system<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dissolution of boundaries in both directions:<\/strong> The ideas of out-of-court dispute resolution methods find their way into the range of state conflict resolution services and vice versa, state law intervenes &#8211; with the Mediation Act &#8211; in the mediation understanding of private mediators (<strong>Juridification, legalisation<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Further opening up and expansion of the state court system? No, there is a real obligation on the state to support out-of-court conflict management\/dispute resolution methods.<\/li>\n<li>Courts must set the course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Understanding mediation<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Consequences of the legal definition of mediation<\/li>\n<li>Mediation Act: Opening up the playing field and limiting it at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Mediation Act has not only opened up the legal playing field for mediation, it has also limited it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is no longer possible to speak of mediation outside of the Mediation Act.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Failure of the legislator to promote out-of-court dispute resolution methods beyond mediation instead of establishing a judicial legal institution that takes up the ideas (arbitrator).<\/li>\n<li>Sense of the <strong>narrow understanding of the legal concept of mediation<\/strong>: <strong>Conceptual clarity<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consequences of incorrect designation by conflict counsellors: Consequences of liability!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Liability for road traffic accidents: also an area that has now been legalised, currently with an increasing number of lawsuits<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>literature discussed:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Greger, R.,<\/strong> Flying a false flag. On the misuse of the concept of mediation and its consequences, ZKM 2015, 172 ff;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prior, Chr.<\/strong>, Clarification assistance meets mediation law..., ZKM 2016, 105.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Left:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Reinhard Greger's website on out-of-court dispute resolution: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reinhard-greger.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.reinhard-greger.de<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,314,293,462,42,97],"tags":[193,382,383,367,18,387,137,388,24,386,384,385],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-inkovema-podcast","category-interview","category-klaerungshilfe","category-podcast","category-recht-der-mediation","tag-aussergerichtliche-streitbeilegung","tag-autonome-streitbeilegung","tag-gesetzesdynamiken","tag-klaerungshilfe","tag-konfliktmanagement","tag-mediationsdefinition","tag-mediationsgesetz","tag-rechtsschutzversicherung","tag-shuttle-mediation","tag-strassenverkehrshaftung","tag-vergesetzlichung","tag-verrechtlichung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}