Biography

2022 – Present
Associate Dean (J.D. Program), Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

2019 – Present
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

2014
Visiting Scholar in Residence, Centre for the Legal Profession, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

2013
Faculty Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

2013
Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College School of Law, University of London

2011-2019
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

2012-Present
Fellow, Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution, Osgoode Hall Law School

2012-Present
Faculty Associate, Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace & Justice, University of Manitoba

2010-2012
Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies), Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

2010-2012
Executive Director, Legal Research Institute, University of Manitoba

2004-2011
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

2003-2004
Invited Research Fellow, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School

2002-2003
Assistant Director, LL.M. in ADR Program, Osgoode Hall Law School

2002
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

1999-2002
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor

Or see:   http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferlschulz

Research Areas

    • Mediation
    • Dispute Resolution Theory
    • Cultural Legal Studies

Selected Publications

  • Contemplating Law, Film and Mennonites (2021) Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
  • Mediation & Popular Culture (London: Routledge, 2020).
  • with Peter Robson, Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity:  Law and Justice on TV  (USA: Lexington, 2018).
  • with Peter Robson, A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV  (London, UK: Hart, 2016).
  • “The Schulz Report:  An Independent, Expert Evaluation of the Automobile Injury Mediation (AIM) Pilot Project,” commissioned by the Government of Manitoba and the Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation, January 31, 2014, 117 pages.
  • “Fairly Legal: A Canadian Perspective on the Creation of a Primetime Mediator” in Asimow, Brown, and Papke, eds., Law & Popular Culture: International Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014) at 43-56.
  • with Jocelyn Turnbull, “Mediation:  The ‘Girly’ Litigation?” (2012) 2 Journal of Arbitration and Mediation 43.
  • “Canada:  ADR and The Associates,” in Peter Robson & Jessica Silbey, eds., Law and Justice on the Small Screen (Hart:  Oxford, 2012) at 425.
  • “Settlement and Mediation in Canadian Legal Television” (2011) 1 Journal of Arbitration and Mediation 77.
  • “girls club Does Not Exist” in M. Asimow, ed., Lawyers in Your Living Room: Law on Television, (Chicago: ABA Press, 2009) 243.
  • “The Cook, the Mediator, the Feminist, and the Hero” (2009) 21 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 177.
  • “Law & Film: Where are the Mediators?” (2008) 58 University of Toronto Law Journal 233.
  • “The Mediator as Cook: Mediation Metaphors at the Movies” (2007) 2 Journal of Dispute Resolution 455. Nominated for the 2008 CALT Scholarly Paper Award.
  • “Confectionery and Conflict Resolution? What Chocolat Reveals about Mediation,” (2006) 22 Negotiation Journal 251.
  • Beaulac, Pitel & Schulz, eds. The Joy of Torts (Toronto: Butterworths, 2003).
  • “Obstacles to Tortious Liability for Mediator Malpractice” (2002) 17 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 149.
  • “Mediator Liability in Canada: An Examination of Emerging American and Canadian Jurisprudence” (2001) 32 Ottawa Law Review 269.

To download selected articles please see:  http://ssrn.com/author=393157

Community Involvement

ADR Institute of Canada, Board of Governors, 2014-2019; Elected Manitoba Representative, 2014-2019

ADR Institute of Manitoba, Vice President, 2013-2019

Association for Conflict Resolution

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

Canadian Association of Law Teachers

The Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal, Editorial Board Member, September 2015 – present

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Editorial Board Member, October 2010 – present

Awards

  • 2023, Trailblazer Award, for excelling in a career outside of the traditional practice of law, being a person of integrity and for demonstrating leadership and service to the community.

  • 2019, Barney Sneiderman Teaching Award, for best professor at Robson Hall, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

  • 2017, Outstanding Teacher, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception

  • 2015, Lionel J. McGowan Regional Award of Excellence in Dispute Resolution, The ADR Institute of Canada

  • 2015, Outstanding Teacher, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception

  • 2002, Professor of the Year, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor

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