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The world stands still, horrified by the wrath of COVID-19, the global economy has been brought down to its knees. The predictions of economic loss at the global stage as a consequence of COVID-19 range as high as $8.8 1 Trillion and it is undeniable that the road to recovery will not be a smooth one. Economic recovery will require the nations to make changes to the fundamental structure and functioning of the government so as to facilitate the growth of business. This is quintessential for the survival of human kind in the 'post COVID-19 world'. This pandemic will hit the under developed and the developing countries harder due to their economies being less immune to such global shocks.

Document production : developments in international dispute resolution / Christof Siefarth -- Ethics in arbitration : connections, conflicts, and collegiality / Phyllis E. Bernard -- The effects of general principles of law / Christina Cathey Schütz -- Widely used rules in international arbitration / Mitchell L. Lathrop -- International contract law as the substantive law applicable to international contracts / John B. Tieder, Jr. and Carter B. Reid -- Enforcement of international arbitral awards in Brazil / Adrianna Camargo Rodrigues -- Developments in mediation in England and Wales / Paul Hopkins -- Arbitration in the Hong Kong special administrative region / Stephen D. Mau -- Arbitration and litigation : an Indian perspective / Nusrat Hassan and K. Parinitha -- Mediation under Italian law / Valentina Giarrusso -- Mediation in Slovakia / Katarina Chovancová -- Resolving disputes involving United States expatriates and employees working abroad / Lorna Sills Katica -- Consolidation intended, unintended, and class actions : a United States perspective / James J. Sentner, Jr. and Anthony Guerino -- Is the door open to United States discovery in aid of foreign arbitration proceedings? / Joshua D. Rievman and E. Anne Musella -- United States public policy and enforcement of arbitral awards under the New York Convention / C. Ryan Reetz -- United States dispute resolution of international telecommunications contracts / Walt Sapronov and Robert J. Butler -- International enforcement of arbitration awards / John W. Rourke

It gives me great pleasure to submit this essay as part of a tribute to Professor Luvern Rieke. I first met him in his initial year of teaching contracts at the University of Washington, when I was a beginning law student. We later worked together in a variety of contexts including ecumenical religious projects; matters concerning domestic relations subjects when I served on the King County Superior Court bench; and on the Judicial Council, where I served as a member of the Washington State Supreme Court. To each role he brought a unique combination of personal qualities: he was thoughtful, courteous, concerned, and actively involved in making law the servant of the people rather than the master. In recent years, I have been privileged to lead two comparative law study groups to the People's Republic of China (People's Republic) as part of the People to People program. Although my knowledge of China's legal and judicial systems is superficial at best, its long history of using dispute resolution mechanisms, rather than the courts, offers a fresh and interesting perspective. Despite cultural, political, and historical differences, Chinese methods and philosophies of alternate dispute resolution have lessons for those seeking improvement in our traditional Western adjudicative model. Professor Rieke's lifelong interest in finding more appropriate methods for our society to resolve its problems makes this short paper an appropriate subject for a tribute to him.