2 -weeks (40 academic credit hours)
Live Session Schedule: Lectures Tuesdays (mandatory) 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST, mock hearings (mandatory), Thursdays 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST.

The Laws and Ethics online arbitration course will focus on ethical compliance and obligations for Arbitration and compliance regarding regulations and codes of conduct in Canada. The purpose of this course is to teach the fundamentals of the Code of Professional Conduct from the Canadian Bar Association and the Code of Ethics from ADR Canada, to provide an overview of the importance of transparency, disclosure, and rules which are important for arbitration to maintain legal legitimacy and to discuss arbitrator-client conflicts of interest, complaints process, competency and credentialing of Arbitrators in Canada.

The role play will focus on practical issues that arise in arbitration such as preliminary objections, objections to jurisdiction, and dealing with common ethical dilemmas to develop students to be able to perform the duties of an arbitrator without any apprehension of bias or conflict of interest.