Ethics in Dispute Resolution

The ethics of negotiation and mediation are anything but clear or simple. The articles listed here are among a growing number of writings which demonstrate why.

In addition to the documents on this page, please see also the CPR-Georgetown Commission Model Rule for the Lawyer as Third Party Neutral and Principles for ADR Provider Organizations, products of the CPR/Georgetown Ethics Project. The CPR/Georgetown project was the most comprehensive effort to develop ethical principles for the field. Christopher Honeyman was one of the commission members, and the CPR/Georgetown project drew from but updated a number of the articles below.

Finally, please also see chapters 18-20, 53 and 67 in The Negotiator's Fieldbook (Schneider, A.K. & Honeyman, C., editors; ABA, 2006.)

• Honeyman, C. (1999.) "Confidential, more or less." Dispute Resolution Magazine (ABA), January 1999: pp. 12-13.
• Honeyman, C. and Moore, L., eds. (1995). What Makes Mediators Squirm?
  A working paper from the 1995 conference of the Public Policy and Environmental Sector of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
• Honeyman, C. (1987). In Defense of Ambiguity (22k)
  Negotiation Journal 3:81-86.
• Honeyman, C. (1986). Bias and mediators' ethics.
  Negotiation Journal 2:175-178.
• Honeyman, C. (1985). Patterns of bias in mediation.
  Journal of Dispute Resolution, vol. 1985, 141-149.