Julie Macfarlane Ph.D. is a full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. Julie has been a mediator (of workplace, organizational, community, contract, and personal injury matters) for more than 15 years. She has special expertise in dispute resolution program evaluation and conducts qualitative research on various aspects of the impact of conflict resolution on professional and community practices. In 2005 she was the first Canadian recipient of the International Academy of Mediators' Award of Excellence, presented annually to an individual mediation practitioner.

Over the past 15 years, Julie has provided mediation training for legal practitioners, law students, civil servants, union and management groups, aboriginal council members, legal aid workers, and health care professionals.

Julie has been appointed on three occasions to report to the Canadian government (both federal and provincial levels) on dispute resolution policies and programs, and her work has been relied upon in the formulation of dispute resolution policy including legislation and rules of civil procedure. In 2003, she was Virtual Scholar in Residence at the Law Commission of Canada and was the principal author of the Law Commissioner's 2003 policy paper "Transforming relationships through participatory justice", presented to the Minister of Justice.

Julie is widely published in major dispute resolution and law journals. Her most recent book is The New Lawyer: How Settlement is Transforming the Practice of Law (UBC Press). She is also author of Dispute Resolution: Readings and Case Studies, 2nd Ed. (2003).

Julie earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of South Bank and her LL.M. in 1984 from London University.

Julie presents at the following IRC program(s): Dispute Resolution Skills