The Role of Arbitrators as Ethics Enforcers

Kristen Blankley, Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, has published Lying, Stealing, and Cheating: The Role of Arbitrators as Ethics Enforcers, University of Louisville Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 442, 2014. In the article, Professor Blankley continues her examination of ethics in arbitration.

Here is the abstract:

This work is the third in a trilogy of Articles in the area of ethics for arbitration participants. This work completes the trilogy by considering the role of the arbitrator in dealing with ethical violations as they occur. The paper outlines the arbitrator’s authority to deal with ethical violations as they occur and must take a more active role as an “ethics enforcer” given the limited judicial review and questionable applicability of perjury and similar criminal laws to the arbitral forum.

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