La médiation

Synopsis of La médiation

«La médiation» is the legal essay by Michèle Guillaume-Hofnung, published by Presses Universitaires de France in paperback (128 pages, in French).

The book treats mediation as a way to resolve and prevent conflicts and reviews how this process has gained social weight over twenty-five years. Its first part makes a non-selective inventory of experiences that claim to be mediation. The second part defines the concept and sets out its references and its legal regime.

The work belongs to the Que sais-je? collection, is the seventh edition and was originally published in 1995. Its thematic field is public law.

For a general audience interested in law and in conflict resolution methods.