Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Negotiated rulemaking, at its heart, is an alternative dispute resolution process, often dependent upon mediation techniques to gain input from stakeholders who will be subject to regulatory processes. The goal is to produce an oversight process that interested parties can live with and that serves whatever the public purposes are in issuing the rules.

Susan Podziba is a veteran mediator based in Brookline, Mass., who has long been associated with negotiated rulemaking, which brings stakeholders to the bargaining table to write regulations. She has done that in a variety of private and government settings, including designing and mediating cases across the policy spectrum including international relations, governance, environment and natural resources, land use and development, transportation, security, labor standards, public health, and education.