Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law - Admin
- meshel@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
Tamar is an Associate Professor and CN Professor of International Trade. She holds a J.D. from the University of British Columbia, and a B.A. (Hons), LL.M., and SJD from the University of Toronto.
Tamar is a global expert in arbitration. She has practiced, researched, taught, and consulted in the arbitration field in an international law firm in Vancouver, as Deputy Counsel at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg, legal advisor to the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, Scholar-in-Residence with WilmerHale International Arbitration Group in London, England, and lecturer at the Ohio State Moritz College of Law and at Osgoode Hall's Professional LLM in International Business Law Program.
Tamar has authored over 50 publications, as well as amicus briefs to the United State Supreme Court. Her arbitration scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Israel, and the Supreme Court of Texas, among others, and was most recently funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research. Tamar's forthcoming monograph Arbitration Law: Statutes, Cases, and Commentary is forthcoming in 2025 with LexisNexis Canada.
Research
- Canadian arbitration law
- US arbitration law
- International commercial arbitration
- Comparative arbitration law
- International water law and interstate water disputes
Teaching
Arbitration law
Corporations
Tort law
Courses
LAW 430A - Torts
The law of negligence, damages, intentional interferences with persons, property and chattels, the law of strict liability, occupiers' liability, nuisance, defamation, the economic torts, the future of tort law.
LAW 430B - Torts
The law of negligence, damages, intentional interferences with persons, property and chattels, the law of strict liability, occupiers' liability, nuisance, defamation, the economic torts, the future of tort law.
LAW 451 - Corporations Law
The laws governing corporations including: pre-incorporation matters; the corporation as a legal person; the tortious, criminal, regulatory, and contractual liability of the corporation; fiduciary duties in general and in commercial relationships, especially in the context of directors and officers, corporate social responsibility; corporate management; shareholder rights; and shareholder remedies.
LAW 599 - Seminars on Specialized Legal Topics
These seminars will cover specialized topics of emerging importance in the law at a senior level. The particular topic covered would vary dependent on the availability of Faculty with necessary teaching competence, student interest, and the needs of the legal profession. Sections may be offered at an increased rate of fee assessment; refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations sections of the Calendar.