Professor Debbie De Girolamo, PhD (LSE); LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution (Osgoode Hall Law School); LLB (University of Windsor); BA Hons. (University of Toronto); Barrister and Solicitor (Ontario, Canada)
Professor of Law
Email: d.degirolamo@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Profile
Debbie De Girolamo joined Queen Mary University of London in September 2012 where she teaches in the LLM programme at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and also in the LLM programme in Paris, in particular Alternative Dispute Resolution and Negotiation Theory and Practice. Debbie is also the Academic Director of the Postgraduate Diploma Course (taught by distance learning) in International Mediation and also for the Postgraduate Diploma Course in International Dispute Resolution (Mediation). Prior to joining Queen Mary as a full-time lecturer, she was the Course Convenor for a combined Queen Mary and University College London LLM ADR course at CCLS and she taught Introduction to the Legal System at the LSE.
Debbie is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor in Ontario Canada where she practised prior to coming to England to commence her doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. While in Canada, she obtained her LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Osgoode Hall Law School and began teaching mediation, negotiation and general dispute resolution courses at law schools in Ontario and also for professional development programmes while continuing her law practice. She also trained as a mediator and became a community mediator in Toronto.
Debbie has written in the area of negotiation and mediation. Her book, The Fugitive Identity of Mediation: Negotiations, Shift Changes and Allusionary Action was published by Routledge in Spring, 2013.