ALFREDO F.

TADIAR
Chair, Department of Alternative Dispute Resolution, PHILJA

Professor Tadiar has been called the “Father of ADR

in the Philippines”. He is the most experienced
arbitrator in construction disputes (CIAC) and has had
cases in international commercial disputes (ad hoc) and
with the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

He retired as a full professor of law at the University of

the Philippine (U.P.) where he taught for more than 20
years all remedial law subjects; criminal law and
population law. For the same period, he was director of legal aid which he
developed as a valuable resource in the administration of justice, and drafted the
law student practice rule approved by the Supreme Court as Rule 138-A, Rules
of Court.

He is the first and only Chair of the ADR Department of PHILJA where he
engaged in the curriculum revision of mediation training programs. His 1991
study funded by The Asia Foundation (TAF) influenced the Court Annexed
Mediation (CAM) (1999). He also directed the Court of Appeals Mediation
project (ACM) and designed the mediation training for clerks of court and legal
researchers on the new Environmental Rules (2010). On 11 January 2011, the
Supreme Court approved his initiation of the Consolidated Guidelines to
Implement the Expanded Coverage of Court-Annexed Mediation (CAM) and
Judicial Dispute Resolution (JDR) as AM No. 11-16-SC PHILJA. He was
appointed Project Director of the Revision and Expansion of the Bench Book
for Trial Courts of which he became the Editor-in-Chief, set to be launched in
April, 2011. He was involved in activities leading to the self-sustainability of
PHILJA.

Professor Tadiar has had extensive experience in crafting implementing rules

and guidelines on Katarungang Pambarangay Law (1980); DOJ IRR of the
ADR Law (2004); Rules on Arbitration of Construction Disputes (2005);
Rules of Procedure, Government Corporate Counsel (2006); Special Rules
of Court on ADR (2006), the Interim Guidelines for Implementing Mediation
in the Court of Tax Appeals (2011) A.M. NO. 11-1-5-SC-PHILJA.

He is a product of two Philippine law schools: U.P. and Silliman (A.A., High
Distinction); AB, (Cum Laude); LLB (Cum Laude); and two American law schools:
Harvard (LLM, with distinction) and Boston University (Special Studies on
Juvenile Justice Administration). He placed 14th in the 1955 Bar Examinations.

He is a Member of the international honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Pi

Gamma Mu which voted him Outstanding Member in 1999.