Johanna Bergann

The contribution focuses upon mediation as an alternative means to resolve conflicts. Considering the interdependence between law and literature, it relates legal norms and institutions of mediation, e.g. amicable settlements or conciliatory proceedings, to the literary figure of the female judge and mediator, especially Athena in Aeschylus's . It examines the techniques of mediation in order to clarify the relation between law and mediation, a relation of alternatives which is not risk-free. mehr