About the author

• Author: Andrew J. Pirie
• Profession: Faculty of Law. University of Victoria
• Pages: 437-437

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Pirie is a professor of law at the University of Victoria, British

Columbia, Canada. Professor Pirie has a long-time relationship with

the ADR movement. He was a founding director of the Mediation

Development Association of British Columbia, Co-Chair of the Con-

flict Resolution Council of British Columbia, a member of the Fund for

Dispute Resolution in Ontario, a Visiting Professor at the University of

Ottawa in 1985 teaching ADR, a litigation associate with the law firm

of Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, and the Executive Director of the UVic

Institute for Dispute Resolution from 1989 to 1996.

Professor Pirie teaches courses in Dispute Resolution: Theories and

Skills, Mediation and Lawyers, Negotiation, and Civil Procedure, and

he has conducted ADR training workshops in Canada and the United

States and in other countries such as Cambodia, England, Fiji, and

Thailand. Andrew has acted as a mediator in various dispute settings.

He is co-editor of Qualifications for Dispute Resolution: Perspectives on

the Debate and the author of several shorter works on ADR.