About Robyn

B.A., LL.B., Acc.FM., CP.Med.

Robyn Hurley is an accredited family and child protection mediator with the Ontario Association of Family Mediation.  She is a member of the mediate393 family court mediation roster, and the ADR-Link child protection mediation roster in London, Ontario.  She previously worked as a family lawyer, representing parents, spouses, Children’s Aid Societies as well as children.  Today, she continues to provide legal representation to children as a panel member of the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.

As a part-time professor at Western University, King’s University College in the Social Justice and Peace Studies, and Childhood and Social Institutions programs, Robyn has taught Alternative Dispute Resolution, Children’s Participation in Family Law, Marginalized Childhoods and Access to Justice. She is also a regular Negotiation Coach for students at the Faculty of Law, UWO.  

While providing mediation training and coaching services through Riverdale Mediation’s accredited courses on Mediation and Negotiation, and Domestic Violence Screening, Robyn is also a supervising mediator at the mediate393 internship program. There, she has the privilege of supervising new mediation professionals.

Robyn’s public policy experience includes working as a policy analyst for the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, where she led a project to design provincial standards for social housing programs. Additionally, she has experience in government, land-use planning and municipal law through her work as an articling student at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.