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, 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 Visiting Scholar with the University of Edinburgh Law School in Scotland.
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.
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