Faculty

Alicia Kuin is a Mediator with ADR Chambers and Conflict Management Practitioner for the Director General Alternative Dispute Resolution with the Canadian Federal Government. She has Facilitated 700+ processes inclusive of complex multiparty human rights, Indigenous, government, workplace, commercial, and academic conflicts.

Her International experience includes: advocating for UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security; UNAOC Fellow (MENA Region); United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; working alongside legal counsel to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, and; providing dispute resolution presentations and trainings in different regions of the world.

Alicia is a Canadian representatives to Women Mediators across the Commonwealth, a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a member of the Program On International Negotiation Training, the Founder/Former Chair of Mediators Beyond Borders International Canada, and a Former Director of the ADR Institute of Ontario.

Christine Kim is a family mediator at Christine Kim Mediation in Toronto. She specializes in custody and access issues. Christine graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Social Work in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Collaborative Program in Ethnic-Pluralism and is an Accredited Family Mediator with the Ontario Association of Family Mediation as well as a Child Protection Mediator on the Ontario Roster. She also acts as a Clinical Investigator with the Ontario Children’s Lawyer. For a full bio click here.

Frank Gomberg is a mediator of civil court cases and member of the Toronto firm, Teplitsky, Colson LLP. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1979, became a civil litigation specialist in 1990; began mediating in 1995 and restricted his practice to mediation in 2005. He is an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School; has published several papers and articles and holds a distinguished peer review rating (4.4/5) at Martindale.com.

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Joan Haberman received her BCL and LLB from McGill University in 1978 and 1979, respectively and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1981. She practiced litigation in both private and public settings until 1998, when she was appointed to the Superior Court of Ontario as a Case Management Master (associate judge). After retiring from the Bench in 2016, Joan returned her attentions to painting, something that had been a large part of her early life. She is currently a member of Gallery 1313, where she exhibits her work from time to time. It can also be seen on her Instagram page, @joan.haberman.art.

Linda Ippolito is a classical pianist, litigation lawyer, dispute resolution practitioner, teacher, and scholar, whose passion lies in the intersection between music and conflict. She studied at the Julliard School of Music in New York and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. She has performed throughout North America and Europe as a soloist in recital and with orchestra, as a vocal collaborator and duo pianist, and continues to actively perform.

Linda holds an LL.B., LL.M. in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and a Ph.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is a founding and senior partner at the Toronto-based law firm, Sheridan, Ippolito & Associates and the dispute resolution consulting firm “Ensemble Solutions”.  Linda has appeared before every level of Court in Ontario and before various administrative tribunals. A certified collaborative family practitioner and mediator, Linda has taught advocacy, negotiation, and dispute resolution at Queens Law School, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Osgoode Professional Development. Her academic work focuses on shifting dominant culture disputing metaphors and mindsets from war and games to the musical ensemble and building creative capacities through the use of music-based teaching and learning modalities.  She has authored numerous articles and scholarly publications on dispute resolution topics, including the book “Music, Leadership and Conflict: the Art of Ensemble Negotiation and Problem-solving” for the Palgrave Macmillan series, Business, Arts and Humanities.

Marc Bhalla, LL.M. (DR), C.Med, C.Arb (he/him) [biracial] helps present ALDR 6305: In Search of Reconciliation Through Dispute Resolution, where he contributes in the role of a non-Indigenous ally in connection with his work with The Authentic Allyship Project.

Marc lectures at many of our professional development, post-graduate and undergraduate dispute resolution programs, including ADLR 6300: Introduction to Dispute Resolution, ALDR 6299: Teaching, Training and Coaching in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution, ADLR 6303: Dispute Resolution in the Digital Age, The Osgoode PD Certificate in Online Dispute Resolution, The Advanced Certificate in Adjudication for Administrative Agencies, Boards & Tribunals and the Osgoode Mediation Clinical Program. He is accredited as a trainer by the ADR Institute of Canada and the Law Society of Ontario, is faculty at the Canadian Collaborative for Engagement & Conflict Management and has also lectured at Queen’s University, the University of Alberta and the University of Saskatchewan.

Marc has been widely published. He has contributed to the McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution, the Journal of Arbitration and Mediation, the Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal and wrote two books – The Art of Role Play in Dispute Resolution Training (2020) and ODR: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. (2022).

Marc applies practical mediation and adjudication experience to his academic work, from both his private practice and as an original Member of Ontario’s online Condominium Authority Tribunal. In 2020, Marc was presented with a STAR award by the ADR Institute of Ontario for his contribution to the field of dispute resolution.

Since 2001 he was Senior General Counsel, Aboriginal Law with the Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio with the Department of Justice, Canada. He joined the Department of Justice in 1989 where he provided legal advice on constitutional reform but primarily worked in aboriginal rights law. He was General Counsel, Litigation Coordinator and General Counsel, Specific Claims with a two-year secondment to the Privy Council Office as General Counsel, Legislation and House Planning.

The vast bulk of his career has been devoted to law and policy relating to the relationship between the Crown and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. He has been involved in all major Supreme Court of Canada cases dealing with the development of Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 starting with the Sparrow decision in 1990. He has been counsel in several appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada, in cases involving aboriginal rights law, the division of powers and equality law.

He holds degrees in Political Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Oxford (which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar).

He has received a law degree from the University of Victoria, a Masters of Law degree in Constitutional Law from York University’s Osgoode Hall and a doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa.

His 2015 doctoral dissertation is entitled “The Political Theory of Reconciliation in the Section 35 Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada”.

He is a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal.

Sharon Sutherland is a lawyer, mediator, conflict resolution trainer, former law professor, and Director of Strategic Innovation and Research at Mediate BC. Sharon has a long history of dispute resolution program development in British Columbia including co-design and co-management of the BC Provincial Court Mediation Program; development of the provincial Child Protection Mediation Practicum; and work as Knowledge Engineer for the Civil Resolution Tribunal. In 2021, she received an honourary doctorate from the Justice Institute of BC in recognition of her contribution to the field of conflict resolution.

The HON JUSTICE TODD L. ARCHIBALD, Appointed Justice of the Superior Court of Justice-1999; Partner: Borden, Ladner, Gervais from 1992 to 1999; Practiced in fields of civil, criminal and environmental litigation; Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as an Environmental Law Specialist in 1997; Adjunct Professor: Advanced Trial Advocacy, Corporate Crimes and Regulatory Offences, and Advanced Evidence at Osgoode Hall Law School (2000 – to present).

Editor – Carswell’s Annual Review of Civil Litigation (2001 – to present);

Co-Author, 2008 Ontario Superior Court Practice (an annual publication);

Co-Author – 2009 Discovery Text – Principles and Practice in Canadian Common Law (2nd Edition);

Co-Author – 2005 Regulatory and Corporate Liability Text (updated annually).

Author of many articles on civil and criminal issues; Received LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1986.

Formerly Senior Solicitor for the Legal Department of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto 1989-1990; Formerly Senior Assistant Crown Attorney in Toronto 1985-1989.