John Wade

Professor of Law

LLB (Sydney)
LLM(Hons) (British Columbia)
Dip Jur (Sydney)

John Wade's professional expertise and interest lies in the areas of mediation, negotiation, family law and legal education. He was the founding joint editor of the Legal Education Review, and is an editor of Australian De facto Relationship Reporter (loose leaf) and Australian Family Law and Practice (loose leaf). He is also a practising mediator.

John has worked as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney; Faculty of Law Osgoode Hall (Toronto); University of Manitoba (Winnipeg) and University of Calgary(Alberta).
He was a consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission 1983-1987, was Acting Dean of the Bond Law School from 1991 to 1993, is a former member of the Family Law Council of Australia and works as a consultant to the Brisbane legal firm of Hopgood Ganim.
He has an ogoing role as visiting professor, including Pepperdine University, Los Angeles (1994-2005), Vermont Law School (2000-2001), Cardozo, New York (2003) and SMU, Texas (2000-5).

He has authored over 100 articles and books, taught over 170 mediation and negotiation courses around the world, and received awards for best law teacher at Sydney University (1989); Bond University (1990); and in Australia (1998).

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• A Lasting Agreement
• Arbitral decision making in family property disputes - lotteries, crystal balls, and wild guesses
• Arbitration of Matrimonial Property Disputes
• Bargaining in the Shadow of the Tribe
• Bargaining in the Shadow of the Tribe and Limited Authority to Settle
• Collaborative lawyering - some preliminary thoughts for Australia
• Crossing the Last Gap
• Current trends and models in dispute resolution, Part 1
• Current trends and models in dispute resolution, Part 2
• Defining “success” in negotiation and other dispute resolution training
• Dobermans and diplomats: seventeen strategies for re-opening hopelessly deadlocked negotiations.
• Don’t waste my time on negotiation or mediation; this case needs a judge: When is litigation the right solution?
• Dueling Experts
• Duelling experts in mediation and negotiation: How to respond when eager expensive entrenched expert egos escalate enmity
• Expanding the concept of ‘legal’ knowledge (yet again): some strategies for re-opening deadlocked negotiations
• False dichotomies and asking the right questions
• Formal Legal Education: A Few Lessons From The Past, Useful For The Future
• Four myths of family law
• Judicial decision-making in Australia – critique and redemption.
• Lawyers and mediators: what each needs to learn from and about the other
• Learning and teaching : aims, goals and objectives
• Legal presumption that children spend equal time with separated parents in Australia: A flawed reform proposal?
• Legal skills training: Some thoughts on terminology and ongoing challenges
• Liability of mediators for pressure, drafting and advice
• Mediation – Seven fundamental questions
• Mediation: the terminological debate
• Meet MIRAT legal reasoning fragmented into learnable chunks
• Representing Clients Effectively in Negotiation, Conciliation and Mediation
• Strategic Language Used by Mediators (and Negotiators)
• Systematic Risk Analysis for Negotiators and Litigators: How to Help Clients Make Better Decisions
• Systematic Risk Analysis for Negotiators and Litigators: How to Help Clients Make Better Decisions
• The Behaviour of Family lawyers and the Implications for Legal Education
• The last gap in negotiations - why is it important? how can it be crossed?
• Tools from a Mediator’s tool-box; Reflections on Matrimonial Property Disputes
• Writing Theses and Reports - An Acronym for Structure in the Wilderness: TCAGONARM