We are pleased to welcome David Spencer and Pauline Collins as the new General Editors of the ADRJ, and Laurence Boulle as the new Chief Editorial Consultant. David, Pauline and Laurence are very experienced and knowledgeable in this field and will be a huge asset to the ADRJ. 

David Spencer

David graduated from the University of Sydney in 1992 with a Bachelor of Laws after completing the first offering of a subject dedicated to the study of alternative dispute resolution taught by Emeritus Professor Dr Hilary Astor. That same year he was admitted to the Supreme Court of NSW and practised as a solicitor in Sydney. He completed a coursework LLM with a double major in commercial law and dispute resolution and an LLM by thesis with the topic, “Defining good faith negotiation in express alternative dispute resolution clauses in contracts”. In 1997, he joined UTS as a clinical practitioner when the NSW Law Society disaffiliated with UTS in running the College of Law and UTS commenced its own practical legal training course for its own students. In 2000, he joined Western Sydney University teaching Contracts and Constitutional Law and in 2002 he joined Macquarie University law school as Senior Lecturer and Director of Learning & Teaching.



He was recruited to La Trobe University in 2008 as Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) in the then named Faculty of Law and Business and in 2012 was recruited to the Australian Catholic University as Professor and Deputy Provost. In 2019, David returned to his love of teaching when he assumed the role of Senior Lecturer at ACU’s Thomas More Law School where he teaches civil procedure, ethics and professional responsibility and dispute resolution. David holds a principal’s practising certificate issued by the Victorian Legal Services Board.



David has authored and co-authored seven books and research monographs; five book chapters; twenty-three refereed journal articles; over one hundred other journal and conference papers; and ninety case notes in refereed journals, predominantly for the ADRJ. He is author of Principles of Dispute Resolution (3rd ed) and co-author of Dispute Resolution in Australia: Cases, Commentary and Materials (5th ed), for Thomson Reuters. He is author of Title 13.2 “Mediation and Conciliation” for Thomson Reuters' The Laws of Australia. He was also the Co-Chief Investigator in a recent ARC Linkage Grant and the lead author of “Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf – excluding deaf people from jury duty: An Australian human rights breach” (2017) 23(3) Australian Journal of Human Rights 332, which won the inaugural 2017 Andrea Durbach Award for Human Rights Scholarship awarded by the Australian Human Rights Institute and the Australian Journal of Human Rights for the article.



David commenced regularly writing case notes for the ADRJ in 2002 (vol 12) and was invited to join the editorial board in 2002 (vol 13). Upon the sad passing of Sir Laurence Street on 21 June 2018, who served outstandingly as the journal’s Chief Editorial Consultant for the first twenty-eight years of the journal’s life, David was invited to fill the large and formidable pair of shoes vacated by Sir Laurence, taking over as Chief Editorial Consultant of the ADRJ in 2018 (vol 29(2)). He was appointed Co-General Editor of the journal in November 2022 (vol 32(2)).



David has a love and passion for the practise and teaching of law and dispute resolution. He is married to Mary-Anne and has two daughters Millie and Prue.



Pauline Collins



Pauline is a Professor in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland.  She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide, a Master of Laws and a PhD from the University of Queensland. She also has a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication (Public Relations) from the University of Southern Queensland. She teaches dispute resolution and international humanitarian law. Her research interests include dispute resolution, legal education, international law and civil-military relations.



Pauline has published six books, many chapters and journal articles. She most recently co-authored Dispute Management (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and co-edited Military Operation and Engagement in the Domestic Jurisdiction: Comparative Call-out Laws (Brill Nijhoff, 2022) and Nexus between Place, Conflict and Communication in a Globalising World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She is also the co-author of the forthcoming Essentials of International Law: An Australian Context.



Prior to joining UniSQ Pauline was a solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court. She worked in general practice, Parliamentary Counsel, the Crown Solicitors Office, and the office of the Director of Public Prosecution SA. Pauline was a member of the National Mediation Conference Board organising the biannual conference at the Gold Coast, Queensland in 2016.  Pauline is a nationally qualified mediator and conducts mediations in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal civil jurisdiction.  



Pauline is a Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and elected staff member of the UniSQ 10th and 11th Governance Council.



In 2010 Pauline received the University of Southern Queensland Outstanding Teacher Award. Research awards include Giueseppe Caforio ERGOMAS Book Award 2019, UniSQ Book Award 2019 and UniSQ Book Award 2020.

 

Laurence Boulle



Laurence published in the ADRJ in its first year (1990) and most recently in 2022, and some of his books have been reviewed in its pages. He attempts to balance dispute resolution teaching and practice, with writing and policy activities. He has worked in the Pacific, Asia, Africa and Europe and held positions at several Australian and overseas universities. He is past chair of the NMC, the MSB and NADRAC and former Director of the Mandela Institute in Johannesburg.  In 2008 Laurence was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.



He is currently Bell Wiese Professor of Legal Ethics at the University of Newcastle and Adjunct Professor at Bond University.



Laurence is the author or co-author or editor of over 20 books on mediation, constitutional law, globalisation, employment law and mediation. His books have been published in seven countries. He most recently co-authored Mediation in Australia (LexisNexis, Sydney, 2018).



His main professional satisfaction comes from teaching and training dispute resolution to professionals and community members and reading the ADRJ.