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THE ETHICAL MEDIATOR

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To explore the need and advisability of existing and proposed ethical standards for mediators and how they relate to various models of mediation.

2. To allow students an opportunity to explore their own responses to these standards and the potential conflicts that may arise for them when standards and personal ethics and morality clash.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Mediators and Aspiring Mediators

MODES OF INSTRUCTION
Lecture, interactive discussion, small group discussion

EVALUATION IF ANY STUDENT WISHES A GRADE
Book report on "The Promise of Mediation" by Robert Baruch Bush and Joseph Folger, pub. Jossey-Bass, 1994 to be between 500 and 1000 typed or printed words that includes your evaluation of the values and shortcomings of the book's 4 models.

READING LIST
Benjamin, Robert D., MSW, JD   "A Critique of Mediation"
Benjamin, Robert D., MSW, JD   "Negotiation and Evil",
Bush, Robert Baruch; Folger, Joseph P.;  "The Promise of Mediation" 1994 Jossey-Bass Duffy, Karen Grover; Grosch, James W.; Olczak, Paul V.; editors "Community Mediation" 1991, Guilford Press
Ethical Standards of ABA, SPIDR, and AAA
Ethical Standards of Oregon
Ethical Standards of CDRC
Ethical Standards of AFM
Ethical Standards of ABA-Divorce and Family Mediation
Fordham University School of Law, "Ethical Issues in Representing Older Clients"
     March 1994, Fordham Law Review, Special Issue, Vol. LXII
Hardegree, Joseph  "The Principles of Mediation and the Future of Ethics"
     Speech at NCMA conference,  March 22, 1997
Lemmon, John Allen   "Family Mediation Practice" 1985, The Free Press
Taylor, Alison ;   Concepts of Neutrality in Family Mediation: Contexts, Ethics, Influence,
       and Umbreit, Mark S.,   "A Transformative Journey of Peacemaking"
       Mediation Quarterly 1997 Vol. 14, No 3 




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