Description

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This book takes a practical, concise, and coherent approach to mediation ethics to make lawyer-mediators aware of their ethical obligations while serving as mediators. The book has been written by 15 leading mediation scholars, with special expertise in mediation ethics, each contributing a chapter on a topic within his or her expertise.

Topics covered include:

• Theory of mediators' ethics,
• Contrasting lawyer ethics and mediator ethics,
• Codes of Conduct for mediators and MEAC opinions,
• Accepting a case or refusing to mediate,
• Evaluating ethically,
• Separate meetings,
• Mediator proposals,
• Difficult parties,
• Lawyer representation in mediation,
• Med-arb,
• The mediated agreement,
• Mediators as witnesses,
• Mediator discipline,
• And continuing mediation ethics education.

Contributors include Omer Shapira, James Alfini, Susan Nauss Exon, Ellen Waldman, Donna Erez-Navot, Kristen M. Blankley, Elayne E. Greenberg, Sharon Press, Bill Eddy, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley, Nancy A. Welsh, Fran Tetunic, Ellen E. Deason, Michael Moffitt, and Gregory Firestone.

About the Author

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Omer Shapira is a Senior Lecturer and mediator who trains mediators in ethics and teaches law, ADR, mediation, and mediation ethics at Ono Academic College Faculty of Law in Israel. He has published extensively on mediation ethics and serves on several mediator ethics committees.