Prof Rachael Field
Bond University, QLD

Rachael is a Professor of Law in the Bond University Faculty of Law, and Co-Director of the Bond Centre for Dispute Resolution and Bond’s Centre for Professional Legal Education. Her areas of teaching and research expertise include dispute resolution, family law and domestic violence, lawyer and law student well-being and legal. 

Rachael has published widely in the dispute resolution field and completed a PhD on mediation ethics in 2011. 

Amongst other works, she is the author of Australian Dispute Resolution (2022) and co-author with Laurence Boulle of Mediation in Australia (2018). Rachael founded the Australian Wellness Network for Law and co-founded the ADR Research Network. She has been involved with Women’s Legal Service, Brisbane since 1993 and is now an Ambassador for the Service. 

In 2013 Rachael was named Queensland Woman Lawyer of the Year and in 2020 she was elected as a life-long Honorary Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple in London.