The Function of Mediation in Transnational Family and Inheritance Law Litigation: The Role of the Department of Legal Sciences (DSG), Unifi, in European Field Research

This paper describes the participation of DSG, Unifi, in two European Union-funded research projects, GoInEU Plus and InMEDIATE, and presents the results, which highlight the need to resolve cross-border issues through solutions agreed by the parties with the intervention of professional dispute resolution facilitators. The projects have focused particularly on two areas where, for essentially cultural reasons, it is more difficult to find a framework of shared European principles: family law and succession law. The latest InMEDIATE project, therefore, has a more general dimension, covering all areas of dispute resolution, and is part of the ECVET system for training European professionals with the aim of designing the curriculum of an international Mediator.