The Architecture of Trust Building in Mediation
Friday, November 28, 2025 at the University of Calgary and online
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. MICHAEL SAINI
Michael A. Saini joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in 2008 as an Assistant Professor. He is now a Professor and holds the endowed Factor-Inwentash Chair in Law and Social Work, and is the Co-Director of the Combined J.D. and M.S.W. program with the Law Faculty.
Michael’s scholarship addresses the intersections of law and social work and the advancement of children and families’ well-being in systems governed by law. Michael has generated new knowledge regarding the assessment of co-parenting; the complexity of strained parent-child relationships; the impact of interparental conflict; the use of technology to support parent-child relationships; the crossover cases of child protection and child custody disputes; and social-work perspectives on the law as a socially embedded phenomenon.
For 19 years, Michael conducted parenting plan evaluations and assisted children’s counsel for the Office of the Children’s Lawyer, Ministry of the Attorney General in Ontario. Michael has over 200 publications, including books, book chapters, government reports, systematic reviews and peer-reviewed journal articles.
In 2019, Michael was awarded the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts’ Stanley Cohen Distinguished Research Award, sponsored by the Oregon Family Institute.
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