The foundation for integrity and the rule of law starts within - the global call for judicial wellbeing

Lucinda Soon is a dual-qualified solicitor of England and Wales and an organisational psychologist, specialising in legal ethics, professional responsibility, and lawyer and judicial wellbeing. Her work focuses on applying robust empirical methods and insights from psychology to develop ethical and healthy workplaces in law. Lucinda combines her work in academia with consulting for organisations and policymakers on a variety of research and advisory projects. She has spent the past two decades practising in-house and in private practice, advising lawyers, law firms, in-house legal teams, and the judiciary on ethical issues and professional responsibility, with corporate clients ranging from small start-ups to large, established UK, US and global entities. She has also advised professional bodies, regulators, and institutional stakeholders on ethical standards and policy development, in the UK and internationally. Lucinda’s academic research spans behavioural ethics, legal professionalism, workplace culture and wellbeing, bringing together the disciplines of law, psychology, sociology, and business management. She is a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, and lectures at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where she leads the module on Psychology for Legal Practitioners on the MSc Law and Professional Practice programme. Lucinda is also a Trustee for LawCare, the mental health and wellbeing charity for the UK legal profession, Co-Chair for the IBA Professional Wellbeing Commission, and an officer of the IBA Academic and Professional Development Committee.

Carly Schrever BSci / LLB; MPsych (Clinical); PhD (Melb) Director, Human Ethos: Wellbeing for Judges and Lawyers Associate Professor, Law School, University of Western Australia Dr Carly Schrever is a lawyer, psychologist, empirical researcher, and Director of Human Ethos. She has worked in and around the legal profession and the courts for 20 years, focusing specifically on judicial and lawyer wellbeing since 2015. She provides education, facilitation, advice and individual therapy services to individuals and organisations within the legal profession worldwide. She completed her Articles of Clerkship at Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens) in 2004, and was admitted to the legal profession in 2005. Early in her career, she served two years as a Judge’s Associate in the Supreme Court of Victoria. As part of her combined Master of Psychology (Clinical) / PhD at the University of Melbourne, Carly conducted Australia’s first empirical and psychologically grounded research into the sources and nature of work-related stress among the Australian judiciary. This research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks, and the findings presented to judicial audiences around the globe. From 2014-2022, Carly was the inaugural Judicial Wellbeing Advisor to the Judicial College of Victoria, leading a program of judicial wellbeing education and reform within the Victorian court system. She is a regular presenter at national and international judicial conferences on the topic of judicial stress and wellbeing, and has been engaged by jurisdictions in Australia, Asia, Africa, North America, the UK and the Pacific to design and deliver tailored wellbeing programs for the local judiciary. In 2024, she worked in an international committee of judges to draft the Nauru Declaration on Judicial Wellbeing – a statement of universal principles to guide judicial wellbeing reform globally. Carly also works with legal professionals in Australia and overseas to provide wellbeing and stress management training and support. Since 2022, Carly has been a Principal Investigator on an Australia Research Council-funded national research project on judicial wellbeing across Australia, with findings expected to be published in 2026. She is also an Associate Professor (Principal Research Fellow) in Law at the University of Western Australia.

Steven M. Richman holds a law degree from New York University School of Law and is a member of Clark Hill PLC, based in Princeton and New York, with a national and international litigation across broad areas of commercial and business practice, as well as arbitration and appellate practice. He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California. Book publications include the Photography Law Handbook, and has written and spoken extensively in the areas of international law, business and human rights, contracts, litigation and arbitration, and professional responsibility. He is a past chair of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section, serves in the ABA House of Delegates, and is the ABA Representative to the United Nations. He is the Chair of the International Bar Association’s Bar Issues Commission and chairs the Business and Human Rights Commission of the UIA (International Association of Lawyers). He also serves on the New York City Bar Association Business and Human Rights Committee and its international council. He has extensive cross border dispute resolution experience in both litigation and arbitration. He serves as a neutral on the American Arbitration Association consumer panel, and is on the mediation list for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He is also on the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the federal court in New Jersey. He has served as an American Bar Association advisor to the Uniform Law Commission on asset freezing orders as well as on the Hague Judgments Convention, Singapore Mediation Convention, and the Choice of Courts Agreements Convention. He has spoken and written extensively on cross border ethics, arbitration, enforcement of judgments and interim relief issues. Publications in the area of business and human rights include Ethical Issues for Business Lawyers Under the United Nations Guiding Principles, 51 Int'l Law. 423 (2018) and the chapter titled Lawyers’ Ethical Obligations and Human Rights Due Diligence in the book A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence for Lawyers (ABA 2023). He is the ABA Representative to the Uniform Law Commission Supply Chain Transparency Study Committee, and past member of ABA Center for Human Rights Advisory Council, and a special advisor to the ABA Rule of Law Initiative board. He is a recipient of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section Leonard J. Theberge Award for Private International Law (2022) as well as the Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2023). Contract information: Steven M. Richman Clark Hill PLC Suite 102 210 Carnegie Center Princeton, NJ 08540 609.785.2911 srichman@clarkhill.com

The Honourable Associate Justice Ierodiaconou is the Principal Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She has played an active role in developing and providing judicial education and workplace training programs. Before her appointment, Her Honour held the position of managing partner at a workplace law firm. She has also served as a Councillor for the Law Institute of Victoria and as an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the University of Melbourne. Associate Justice Ierodiaconou has extensively published on the topic of mental health and wellbeing, including articles on disclosure, unlawful discrimination, and occupational health and safety.

Judge Matos is the Honorary President of the International Association of Judges (IAJ). Founded in 1953, the IAJ comprises national associations of 94 countries being the biggest organization of judges worldwide. He has been a judge since 1990, and is currently the President of the Court of Appeal in Oporto, Portugal. He is a member of both the Consultative Council of European Judges of the Council of Europe, and of the Advisory Board of the Global Judicial Integrity Network of the United Nations. He is Vice President of the Consultative Council of European Judges of Council of Europe

Justice Rangajeeva Wimalasena has a judicial career spanning over two decades across three Commonwealth jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. His legal journey began in 1999 as a prosecutor in the Attorney General's Department of Sri Lanka. In December 2002, he was appointed to the bench in Sri Lanka and later joined the judiciary of Fiji. In 2022, he was appointed as a Justice of Appeal in the Nauru Court of Appeal. Justice Wimalasena currently serves as the President of Nauru Court of Appeal. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Catholic University. Justice Wimalasena serves as a Council Member and International Observer at the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration. In addition, he is a member of the UNODC Global Judicial Integrity Network, the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, the Medico-Legal Society of Queensland, and the Judges’ Forum of the International Bar Association. He is also a founding member of the Pacific Islands Judicial Officers’ Association. He has served as Chair of the Professional Standards Advisory Committee of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA), as well as a member of its Executive Council. As the Secretary of the Judicial Services Association of Sri Lanka in 2014, he began actively advocating for judicial well-being and introduced initiatives to promote mental and physical wellness among judges through engagement in the performing arts and other activities aimed at fostering a balanced mind and enhancing collegiality. In 2024, Justice Wimalasena led an international team of chief justices, senior judges, and legal experts to draft the Nauru Declaration on Judicial Well-being. He was also the principal architect behind the initiative to establish 25 July as the International Day for Judicial Well-being, which was formally proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly pursuant to a resolution submitted by the Republic of Nauru.