This Note examines life-support and burial disputes involving children of divorced parents. The author discusses the increasing role of mediation in resolving child custody disputes, and recommends the use of mediation in life-support and burial disputes. The Note proposes statutes for resolving life- support and burial disputes between the child's parents. Both statutes impose mandatory mediation on parents with the hope of quick dispute resolution.
This author identifies the reasons behind the rampant use of discovery in international commercial arbitration processes. Today, arbitrators are given broad discretion regarding the use of discovery. The author suggests that limiting such direction to order discovery would lead to a more cost-effective and tradition form of arbitration.
This article questions whether alternative dispute resolution processes may harm rather than help development of the rule of law by undermining rather than building legitimacy. Specifically addressing the issue of introducing alternative dispute resolution methods in countries where corruption is endemic, the article presents questions for practitioners to consider when deciding whether such methods should be introduced.
This article explores various sources of law, including the FAA, which could require fairness in securities arbitration. It also discusses SEC oversight of securities arbitration within the last ten years.
This article examines the current meaning of mediation and how the-legal obligations imposed on a mediator should affect the mediator's style. It also examines the impartiality requirements on a mediator.
This article discusses the moral debate surrounding reproductive technologies, including the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. The article then describes a mediative approach to these moral conundrums that allows parties to become conscious of their own beliefs by situating themselves in positions that are ideologically different from their own.
This article discusses ethical conflicts of interests and disclosure requirements for arbitrators. It has a focus on the penalties for improper nondisclosure, particularly vacatur.
This article catalogues some of the ethical issues that have been raised in collaborative law. It then examines competence issues in considering collaborative law practice. The article also examines limited scope representation agreements entered into between attorney and client.
This article argues that collaborative law can be permissible under the current rules of legal ethics and tries to create clarity and provide guidance for collaborative lawyers. The article includes a discussion of existing ethics opinions with a focus on Colorado Ethics Committee Opinion 115.