Dr. Omer Shapira (LL.B. (First Class), 1992, University of Manchester School of Law, United Kingdom; LL.M. (Magna Cum Laude), 2000, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law; PhD, 2004, Bar-Ilan University Interdisciplinary Program in Conflict Management and Negotiation) is a Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College, Israel, and a mediator. He teaches courses and seminars on philosophy of law, EU law, ADR, mediation, and mediation ethics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and lectures on mediation ethics in mediator training courses, professional conferences, and continuing education programs for mediators.
Shapira is the editor of Mediation Ethics: A Practitioner’s Guide (American Bar Association Publishing, 2021) and Mediation Ethics: Codes of Ethics and Dealing with Dilemmas (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2018) (Heb) (co-edited with Carmela Zilberstein). He is the author of A Theory of Mediators’ Ethics: Foundations, Rationale, and Application (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Use of Power and Influence in Mediation: Practice and Applied Ethics (Ono Academic College Press, 2007) (Heb) and Jurisprudence: Introductory Chapters (Bursi Press & Ono Academic College Press, 2007). His works on mediation ethics on topics such as the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (2005), Decision-Making in Mediation, Fairness and Impartiality in Mediation, and Mediators’ Sources of Power and Influence Tactics have been published in American and Israeli-refereed journals.
Shapira has mediated court-referred, police complaints, community, and family cases. He is collaborating with community mediation centers and mediator professional organizations in Israel to bring mediation ethics into the practice of mediators. Shapira sits on a Mediator Ethics Committee (Israel) that receives ethical inquiries from practitioners and drafts reasoned ethical opinions that are informed by the theoretical work in which he engages. He also chairs IMI – International Mediation Institute Ethics Committee and is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Minister of Justice in accordance with the Courts Regulations (List of Mediators), 5727 – 2017 (an academic with expertise in mediation).
