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Symposium, Standards Of Professional Conduct In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Carol L. Izumi
Symposium, Standards Of Professional Conduct In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Carol L. Izumi
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Standards Of Conduct For Mediators, John D. Feerick
Standards Of Conduct For Mediators, John D. Feerick
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In 1992, the American Arbitration Association, the American Bar Association, and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) formed a joint committee to develop a code of conduct for mediators. After more than two years of work, the committee completed and submitted Standards of Conduct for Mediators for approval to their respective associations. The purpose was to develop a set of standards that could serve as a general framework for mediators, providing them with a helpful tool in their practice. The standards were to be broad enough to cover all types of mediation and flexible enough to evolve over …
Standards Of Professional Conduct In Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium, John D. Feerick, Carol Izumi, Kimberlee Kovach, Lela Love
Standards Of Professional Conduct In Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium, John D. Feerick, Carol Izumi, Kimberlee Kovach, Lela Love
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ADR is unique in being interdisciplinary and interprofessional. ADR neutrals perform in a distinctive role and not as members of their own profession. The ADR process demands adherence to policies like voluntariness, respect for party autonomy, and confidentiality, which, in turn, make special ethical demands on ADR neutrals. Thus there are compelling reasons to contemplate an interdisciplinary code of conduct that addresses the professional duties and obligations of ADR neutrals. Standards of conduct for ADR has been a much discussed and debated topic over the past decade, both as to source and content. The two principal sources of standards have …