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50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 493 (2008-2009)
Awareness and Ethics in Dispute Resolution and Law: Why Mindfulness Tends to Foster Ethical Behavior

handle is hein.journals/stexlr50 and id is 499 raw text is: AWARENESS AND ETHICS IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LAW: WHY MINDFULNESS TENDS TO FOSTER ETHICAL BEHAVIOR* LEONARD L. RISKIN** It is a real treat for me to join you at South Texas College of Law for this timely and comprehensive program on Ethics in the Expanding World of ADR: Considerations, Conundrums, and Conflicts.' This law school had a major impact on my own work in mediation. In the early 1980s, when I was teaching nearby at the University of Houston Law Center, I volunteered to mediate at the Houston Neighborhood Justice Center (NJC). South Texas College of Law hosted the training program for volunteers. Two current members of the South Texas faculty played important leadership roles in these efforts. Judge Frank Evans was Chairman of the Board of the NJC, and plainly the most active and influential proponent of mediation in Texas. Professor Kim Kovach, the Associate Director of the NJC, was one of three co-teachers in the forty-hour training program. Both have gone on to make immense contributions to the field. And South Texas College of Law has shown a continuing commitment to leadership in mediation, in part by hiring my old friend Jim Alfini, one of the great leaders in the mediation movement, as its dean. This symposium embraces a level of sophistication that would have been unimaginable to Houston mediators in the early 1980s. The issues we faced at that time were quite basic. We had to distinguish mediation from arbitration and from law practice. We also had to distinguish it from meditation; some of our mediation colleagues * Copyright © 2009 Leonard L. Riskin. This is a cleaned-up, extended, and footnoted version of a luncheon presentation at the Symposium, Ethics in the Expanding World of ADR: Considerations, Conundrums, and Conflicts, sponsored by South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas on Nov. 2, 2007. 1 am grateful to Daniel Bowling, Jonathan Cohen, Clark Freshman, Scott Peppet, Scott Rogers, and Ellen Waldman for comments on a draft of this essay. ** Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law, Levin College of Law, University of Florida. 1. 49 S. TEx. L. REV. 787 (2008).

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