A bridge between scholarship and practice.

I study how people and institutions handle conflict, disagreement, procedure, justice, and change. My work now brings those insights into practical spaces for leaders, professionals, and teams.

Opening

I have spent my career studying how people, institutions, and legal systems handle conflict. Now I help leaders and professionals transform how they meet difficult conversations in their own lives and organizations.

Scholar

Research

Dispute resolution, courts, law and development, legal anthropology, transnational norms, court-connected mediation, judicial institutions, and access to justice.

Teacher

Courses

Foundations of Dispute Resolution
Ethics and Professionalism
Jurisprudence and Critical Perspectives
Courts and the Judicial Function

Practitioner

Experience

Senior law clerk to Chief Justice Patrick LeSage; consulting lawyer to the Ministry of the Attorney General's Civil Justice Policy and Reform branch; mediator and investigator at the College of Nurses of Ontario.

Why this site exists

I created this space to bring my work on conflict, cooperation, ethics, and transformation beyond the university — into practical tools for people who are trying to lead, decide, speak, repair, and grow in difficult situations.