Professor Nadja Alexander

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Background

As a sought-after presenter for ADR and mediation congresses, Professor Alexander conducts a range of conflict resolution workshops for professional, academic, government and community organizations. International key-note addresses this year include the Slovenian Mediation Days (Portoroz, Slovenia 2007), EU Mediation Congress (Riga, Latvia 2007), Mediation through Arbitration (Vinnitsa, Ukraine 2007), European Mediation Congress (Vienna, Austria), International Commercial Mediation Conference (Rome, Italy 2007). Nadja is well known for her innovation, energy and creativity in teaching, training and dispute resolution contexts. In addition, Nadja's international education and experience bring a global perspective and interdisciplinary insight to her work. These qualities have been recognised through numerous awards for curriculum design and teaching innovation. From 1994 to 1997 Nadja was the recipient of five Excellence in Teaching awards. In 1997 she won the inaugural Australian Award for University Teaching in Law and Legal Studies. In 1998 Business Woman Magazine named her as one of Australia's Top Five Female Academics; and in 1999 she was a finalist in the Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year Awards.

Professor Alexander is actively involved regulatory aspects of mediation practice and education at national and international levels. She is a member of Australia's National ADR Advisory Council (NADRAC), the Law Council of Australia's ADR Committee, the Dispute Resolution Council of Queensland, Australia, the ADR Committee of the Queensland Law Society, the Mediation Jury in Germany and the Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute (IMI).

Professor Alexander's primary area of research is comparative and international dispute resolution and conflict management drawing with a particular interest in how customary law and practices can play a role in designing conflict management systems. She regularly publishes in both German and English languages. In addition to authoring numerous articles in dispute resolution and educational journals, She is primary author of several books on negotiation and mediation and series editor of Global Trends in Dispute Resolution, the first book series in the world to focus on an international and comparative developments in mediation. In addition Professor Alexander is editor for international mediation developments for the World Arbitration and Mediation Review, and on the editorial panel of the Australian ADR Bulletin. Professor Alexander mediates a wide variety of workplace, discrimination, cross-cultural and community conflict and is also an active member of a number of external mediation panels.

In 2006-2007 Professor Alexander was a Humboldt Fellow at the Europa University Viadrina in Germany.

Research Interests

• Comparative and international mediation
• Mediating across difference; cross-cultural mediation
• Mediation as an interface between customary law and western forms of formal justice

Qualifications

• BA Qld, Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland 1986, LLB (Hons) Qld
• Bachelor of Laws, The University of Queensland 1999
• Diploma in International Studies, The University of Vienna, Austria
• LLM, Tübingen, Master of Laws, The University of Tübingen, Germany
• Dr. jur. (summa cum laude) Tübingen, Equivalent Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of Tübingen, Germany
• MBTI accreditation, Brisbane 1994
• NLP accreditation, Brisbane 2000

Professional Activities

• Member, National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee (NADRAC)
• Advisory Council Member, International Mediation Institute, The Hague
• Advisory Council Member, USQ Law School
• Member of the Dispute Resolution Council of Queensland, Australia
• Member of the ADR Committee of the Queensland Law Society
• Member of the Mediation-Jury in Germany
• Mediator, Supreme Court and Magistrates Court of Queensland
• Editor for International Mediation Developments for the World Arbitration and Mediation Report, Juris, New York
• Editorial panel member for the ADR Bulletin, Richmond Publishers, Sydney
• Editorial panel member for Perspektive Mediation, an Austrian journal on mediation.
• Country Correspondent for International Journal For Dispute Resolution, Sellier, European Law Publishers (2001-2006)
• Country Correspondent Mediation World.

Representative Publications

Books

• ALEXANDER, N. (ed.) Global Trends in Mediation (2nd Ed.). Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2006.
• ALEXANDER, N., ADE, J., &, OLBRISCH, C., Mediation, Schlichtung, Verhandlungsmanagement* Alpmann-Schmidt Verlag, Münster 2005. *English Translation: "Mediation, Conciliation, Negotiation Management"
• ALEXANDER, N. (ed.) Global Trends in Mediation, Dr. Otto Schmidt Publishing, Cologne 2003. ALEXANDER, N. Wirtschaftsmediation in Theorie und Praxis* Peter Lang Publishing, Frankfurt, 1999. 318 pages. *English Translation: "Commercial Mediation in Theory and Practice".
• SPEGEL, N., Rogers, B. & Buckley, R., Negotiation: Theories and Techniques, Butterworths, 1998, Sydney, Australia.

Book Chapters

• ALEXANDER, N. "Mediation in Civil Procedure: A Comparative Perspective". International Academy of Comparative Law (ed) Convergence of Legal systems in the 21st Century. Bruylant: Bruxelles, 2006.
• ALEXANDER, N. "Global Trends in Mediation - Riding the Third Wave" in ALEXANDER, N. (ed.) Global Trends in Mediation, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2006.
• ALEXANDER, N. et al "Mediation in Germany: The long and winding road" in ALEXANDER, N. (ed.) Global Trends in Mediation, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2006.
• ALEXANDER, N. ""Internationale Entwicklungen der gerichtsnahen Mediation" in Ferz, S. (ed.) Rechtskultur - Streitkultur - Mediation: Die Reaktivierung von verlorener Selbstverantwortung und abgegebener Eigenkompetenz Hamburg, Verlag Dr Kovac 2003, 39-57.
• ALEXANDER, N. & Carlson, T. "Adventure in the Name of Peace" in Peacebuilding for Adolescents: Strategies for Teachers and Community Leaders, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 1999, 161 - 175.

Journal Articles

• ALEXANDER, N. and Ade, J. "Gerichtsnahe Mediation rund um die Welt - Ansätze und aktuelle Entwicklungen vor dem Hintergrund angloamerikanischer und kontinental - europäischer Rechtssysteme - Teil 1 S. 144 ff. (-149), Teil 2 S. 183 ff. (- 186) " 10 Zeitschrift für Konfliktmanagement 2007.
• ALEXANDER, N. "Nadja Alexander's worldwide perspectives on Mediation: Interview with UK Mediator Michael Leathes" World Arbitration & Mediation Report 1 (1) 2007 165.
• ALEXANDER, N., "Mediating in the Shadow of Australian Law: Structural Influences on ADR" 2006, 9 Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence 322 - 337.
• ALEXANDER, N., "Mobile Mediation: How Technology is Affecting the Globalisation of ADR", Hamline Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2006, 26.
• ALEXANDER, N., "If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it (Albert Einstein): Interview with Micheal Leathes." 9 (4) ADR Bulletin 2006 72.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• ALEXANDER, N., "Managing the Mediation Dilemma: International Challenges" Nederlands-Vlaams tijdschrift voor mediation en conflictmanagement. 2007 Heft 1, 33-41.
• ALEXANDER, N., "Mediatoren ohne Grenzen - wie Technologie zum Sieg globaler Streitbeilegung beiträgt" Betrifft Justiz, 2007 Heft 89, 39 - 44.
• ALEXANDER, N. "Mediators without borders: how technology is leading the charge to globalised dispute resolution." 8 (9) ADR Bulletin 2006 169.
• ALEXANDER, N. "The chameleon mediator" 6 (9) ADRB 2004, 165.
• ALEXANDER, N. "When your multi-cultural dinner party conversation becomes an international mediation" 6 (8) ADRB 2004, 145.
• ALEXANDER, N. "What's law got to do with it? Mapping Modern Mediation movements" Vol 13 (2) Bond Law Review, Special Issue: Dispute Resolution (2001) 325.
• ALEXANDER, N., `From Communities to Corporations: the Growth of Mediation in Sri Lanka' 4(1) The ADR Bulletin (2001) 8. Republished March 2002 in Mediate.com - the Australasian chapter www.mediate.com. Republished a second time in 12 (9) WAMR (2002).
• ALEXANDER, N. `Mediation in Practice: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives Compared' International Trade and Business Law Annual, (2001) VI, 1.
• ALEXANDER (formerly SPEGEL), N. "Australian Lawyer Attitudes to Mediation", (1998) NLR 1-15.