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Robert E. Emery, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia

 

Dr. Emery's recent book is:

The Truth about Children and Divorce:
http://emeryondivorce.com/index.php

Robert Emery, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia. He also is an associate faculty member in the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, and was Director of Clinical Training from 1993-2002. He received his B.A. from Brown University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982. He has served or is serving on the editorial board of eleven professional journals, and he has been a member of the Social Sciences and Population grant review study section of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Emery's research focuses on family relationships and children's mental health, including parental conflict, divorce, child custody, family violence, and associated legal and policy issues. His 1982 Psychological Bulletin paper, “Interparental Conflict and the Children of Discord and Divorce,” was designated a "Citation Classic" by the Institute for Scientific Information with over 320 citations as of April 1993 (over 700 as of January 2000). His Child Development paper, “Family Members as Third Parties in Dyadic Family Conflict: Strategies, Alliances, and Outcomes” (with Samuel Vuchinich and Jude Cassidy), won the 1989 "Outstanding Research Publication Award" from the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. In December 2000, he was asked to present his research findings to the National Academy of Sciences. The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts presented the “Distinguished Researcher” and “Myer Elkin Address” awards to Dr. Emery in 2002. His book, The Truth about Children and Divorce, was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award and Library of Virginia Literary Award in 2005.

Dr. Emery is the author of over 100 scientific publications and several books. Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment (1999, 2nd Ed., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications) won the Outstanding Academic Book award from Choice magazine, and was recently translated into Chinese. Abnormal Psychology (2007, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall [with Thomas Oltmanns]) is in its fifth edition (1st Ed 1995; 2nd Ed 1998; 3rd Ed 2001; 4th Ed 2004). Emery has also written Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (2000, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall) with Thomas Oltmanns. His book, Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation (1994, New York: Guilford Publications), was translated into Italian (Il Divorzio: Renegoziare le Relazioni Familiari). Dr. Emery’s new book, The Truth about Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive (New York: Viking/Penguin) was published in August, 2004, and was featured when Dr. Emery presented on the Today Show, The Jane Pauley Show, National Public Radio, in Newsweek magazine, and in many other print and electronic media.

Dr. Emery has lectured extensively on his research across the United States and in numerous countries throughout the world. In addition to his research, teaching, and administrative responsibilities, Dr. Emery continues to engage in a limited practice as a clinical psychologist and divorce mediator. He also is the father of five children.
 

Dr.iur. Thomas Trenczek
Professor of Law at the University of Applied Sciences
in Jena, Germany

Professor Thomas Trenczek teaches Criminal and Juvenile Law as well as mediation and conflict
management. He holds both German Law degrees, a Ph.D. in law (Dr. iur.: summa
cum laude) as well as a M.A. in Social Sciences of the University in Tübingen.

Prof. Trenczek has worked as a criminologist at the Institute for Criminology of the Tübingen University as well as the Criminological Research Center of Lower-Saxony in Hanover. In 1987/88 has spent a year of research at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (USA) where he also got his initial mediation training. Prof. Trenczek has worked as a law clerk and in the state attorney's office, in a law firm, as well as in governmental bodies. From 1988-1991 he was secretary general of the German Association of Juvenile Courts and Court Services.

In 2001/2002 he was a visiting scholar at the Corrs Westgarth Dispute Management Centre and the T.C. Beirne School of Law of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Prof. Trenczek is an accredited mediator of the Queensland Supreme Court, he is member of the Mediation Services Office at the Hanover district court. He is a co-founder, and on the board, of the WAAGE conflict
resolution center in Hanover as well as the Konsens-Association, an initiative
to foster the mediation in the state of Lower Saxony.

Prof. Trenczek is an acknowledged mediation trainer (BMWA) in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, the Czech
Republik and the Netherlands.

Dr Jenn McIntosh
Family Transitions
Unfortunately Jenn McIntosh has had to withdraw from the conference.

John Winslade (PhD)

Associate Professor, California State University, San Bernardino

John Winslade (PhD) is an Associate Professor at California State University San Bernardino. He also teaches a mediation course at Cal State Dominguez Hills University and another at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Until 2003, he was Director of Counsellor Education at the University of Waikato and he still returns regularly to New Zealand to work part-time at Waikato University, including a Masters course on mediation in the School of Education. He is a member of the editorial board of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly journal. With Gerald Monk, John was the author of the groundbreaking text, Narrative mediation: A new approach in conflict resolution (2000, Jossey Bass). He has since written a series of articles on narrative mediation and has taught workshops on this subject in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Cyprus & Israel.

John Winslade was the co-author of the groundbreaking text, Narrative mediation: A new approach in conflict resolution (2000, Jossey Bass). He has since written a series of articles on narrative mediation and has taught workshops on this subject in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Cyprus & Israel. He is a board member of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly and teaches mediation in several universities in three countries.

 

Colin Rule (via Video)
Director of Online Dispute Resolution, eBay.com

Colin Rule is the Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay. He holds a Master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution and technology, a B.A. in Peace Studies from Haverford College, and he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997. He has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than a decade as a mediator, trainer, and consultant.

Colin was General Manager of Mediate.com, the largest online resource for the dispute resolution field. Colin
also worked for several years with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution in Washington, D.C. and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Colin has presented and trained throughout Europe and North America for organizations including the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Department of State, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has also lectured and taught at UMass-Amherst, Stanford, MIT, Southern Methodist University, the University of Ottawa, and Brandeis University.

In 1999 Colin co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first online dispute resolution providers (ODR) and served as its CEO (2000) and President. In 2002 Colin co-founded the Online Public Disputes Project, which applied ODR to multi-party, public disputes.

He is currently Co-Chair of the Online Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section, and he serves on the Steering Committee of the Better Business Bureau’s Internet program, BBBOnline.

Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He has contributed more than 40 articles to
prestigious ADR publications such as Consensus, The Fourth R, ACR News, and Peace Review. He authors the online conflict resolution column in ACResolution
Magazine and contributes to odr.info, a news resource chronicling developments in the ODR field.


Joanna Kalowski
Principal of JoK Consulting

Joanna Kalowski is a mediator and management consultant with a lifelong commitment to social justice and human rights issues.

Joanna has had a long involvement with LEADR including about 10 years as an inspirational trainer working with Sue Duncombe to spread the word and the skills of mediation across the region. Joanna went on to hold the positionns of Director and Chair of the organisation.

Joanna is a former member of the National Native Title
Tribunal and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Joanna is currently dividing her time between Europe and Australia. She writes and lectures on cross-cultural perspectives in mediation, education and management practice, while still maintaining a very active practice as a mediator.

Joanna is fluent in several languages and can make people laugh, learn and gain insight in equal measures in all of them.

Joanna, is the current LEADR Visiting Fellow.


Laurence J. Boulle
Professor of Law Bond University

Laurence Boulle taught at the Universities of Natal and Adelaide before joining Bond University as a foundation staff member in 1988. He has taught and worked
at universities in Europe, Africa, North America and Australasia and his books on constitutional law, employment law, mediation and dispute resolution have
been published in seven countries.

He served as Chair of the Federal Government's National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council from 1999 until 2003 and is currently a part-time member of the National Native Title Tribunal. He is accredited as a mediator of the Supreme Court of Queensland and conducts a private mediation practice. He has been editor of the ADR Bulletin (Richmond Publishers, Sydney) since 1997.

Professor Boulle is currently engaged by the National Mediation Conference to develop a possible National Accreditation System.

Dr Marie Bismark
Senior Solicitor, Buddle Findlay

Dr Marie Bismark is a doctor and lawyer from New Zealand who works at the interface between law, medicine and health care policy.

Marie is a senior solicitor in Buddle Findlay’s Wellington office. She has previously practised as a medical doctor in 5 New Zealand hospitals, served as a legal adviser to the New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner, and taught at Otago Medical School and Victoria University Faculty of Law.

In 2004–2005, Marie was a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University. Her landmark research explored alternatives to medical malpractice litigation, with a particular focus on healthcare mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. She also analysed patient motives for medico-legal action following injury in hospital, comparing the characteristics of patients with monetary and non-monetary motives.

Marie is the co-author of several articles and a book chapter on the New Zealand medico-legal system and was an entrancing presenter at the 2005 LEADR International Conference.