Professor Tania Sourdin

Director, Centre for Court and Justice System Innovation
BA, LLB, LLM, PhD,

Professional Profile

Professor Tania Sourdin is the Foundation Chair and Director of the Australian Centre for Court and Justice System Innovation (ACCJSI) at Monash University. Tania has previously been the Director of the Conflict Resolution Centre at La Trobe and Co Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program at the University of Queensland.

She wrote the National Mediator Accreditation Standards and has led national research projects and produced important recommendations for court and non adversarial justice reform. She has conducted research into conflict resolution and disputant perceptions in eight courts and four independent conflict schemes and currently has two major evaluation projects in this area. She has also written widely in the area of online dispute resolution and currently has an ARC project in this area.

She is a member of National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council which advises the Commonwealth AG as well as other advisory bodies and is also a member of the Cth AAT (since 2001) as well as a number of panels as an advanced mediator. She has extensive experience in conflict resolution and has presided in Courts and Tribunals in a range of positions since 1988.

Tania has worked across Australia, in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, the UK, the United Arab Emirates and the Pacific. As well, Professor Sourdin is the author of books (including Alternative Dispute Resolution (Thomson Reuters) - now in a 3rd ed), articles, papers and has published and presented widely on a range of topics including commercial dispute resolution, mediation, conflict resolution, complaints management, case management, collaborative lawyering, judicial dispute resolution, high conflict disputants and organisational change.

A selection of some of Professor Sourdin's research publications is available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/results.cfm.

Areas of Expertise

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation
Litigation and case management processes
Collaborative Law
AI and legal processes
Online Dispute Resolution
High Conflict Behaviour

Teaching Commitments

Collaborative Practice (LAW7474)
Advanced mediation: skills and theory A (LAW7475)
Advanced Mediation: Skills and theory B (LAW7476)