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Dr. Omer Shapira (LL.B., 1992, University of Manchester, UK; LL.M., 2000, Tel-Aviv University; PhD, 2004, Bar-Ilan University) is a Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College, Israel, and a mediator. He teaches courses and seminars on 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.
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 Mediation Ethics: Codes of Ethics and Dealing with Dilemmas (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2018) (Heb) (co-edited with Carmela Zilberstein). His works on mediation ethics on topics such as the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (2005), Decision-Making in Mediation, Fairness in Mediation, and Mediators' Sources of Power and Influence Tactics, have been published in American and Israeli-refereed journals and can be viewed here.
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, and sits on a Mediator Ethics Committee that receives ethical inquiries from practitioners and drafts reasoned ethical opinions that are informed by the theoretical work in which he engages. Shapira is also a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Israeli Minister of Justice on matters relating to court-connected mediation and the courts' list of mediators.