Educational Background
1998, LL.B., The University of British Columbia
1982, Ph.D., Political Science The Graduate Institute of (Doctorate ès sciences politiques, International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland (mention relations internationales) (Profs. L. Caflisch and J. Siotis)
1974, B.A. Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel & French Linguistics
Courses Taught
POLI 1125 Introduction to Political Science
POLI 1150 International Relations*
POLI 1145 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 2130 International Relations Theory
POLI 2131 European Integration
POLI 2150 International Political Economy
POLI 2155 Contemporary Political Conflict
POLI 3145 Comparative Transborder Studies
POLI 3147 Foreign Policies of the Major Powers
POLI 3160 International Organizations
POLI 4420 Issues in Public Policy and Administration
POLI 4340 Public International Law
Areas of Interest/Research
International law and organizations; international trade & investment & international dispute resolution; international political economy & regional and international integration (NAFTA, WTO, FTAA, and EU, Council of Europe, and global); international relations.
Conflict management and resolution (general, ethnic conflict, global & regional conflict, Western Europe, the Middle East), political violence and terrorism, international humanitarian law, law of war, and international humanitarian and human rights law.
Migration, immigration policies and administration; political and social movements.
Selected Publications
2006-2008 publications
Books & Anthologies
Après la guerre , co-ed. with Klaus-Gerd Giesen, La documentation fran çaise, forthcoming, 2007
“The Concept of War”, Special Issue, co-ed. with Klaus-Gerd Giesen, Peace Review. A Journal of Social Justice , Vol. 19, No. 2, 2007
Articles and Chapters
“Parlons d’occupation”, Après la guerre , co-ed. with Klaus-Gerd Giesen, La documentation française, forthcoming, 2007
“International Leases as a Legal Instrument of Conflict Resolution: The Shab’a Farms as a Prototype for the Resolution of Territorial Conflicts” (with co-author Michael Strauss) short version reprint, the ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law , forthcoming early 2008.
“International Leases as a Legal Instrument of Conflict Resolution: The Shab’a Farms as a Prototype for the Resolution of Territorial Conflicts” (with co-author Michael Strauss, Touro International Law Review , forthcoming 2008
“Suspending Sovereignty: Reassessing the Interlocking of Occupation, Failed and Fragile State, Responsibility to Protect, and International Trusteeship (Lessons from)” Israel Law Review, forthcoming, 2008
“A Proposal for a Borderland Dispute Settlement Continuum Mechanism. Institutional Development for Cascadia: Law and Politics”, CPSR special issue, forthcoming 2008
“The Concept of Appeal in International Dispute Settlement”, EJIL, Vol. 20 (10), 2008.
“The New Orthodoxy of Dispute Resolution in International Trade Law: Is the Public Sector Co-opting the Private, or Vice-Versa?” Transnational Private Governance and its Limits , Jean-Christophe Graz and Andreas Noelke (eds.), London, Routledge – ECPR Studies in the European Political Science, 2007
“Religion, Religious Fervour, and Universalist Education”, Journal of Religious Culture/Journal fuer Religionskultur , No. 86, 2007, at http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/relkultur86.pdf
or relkultur86.doc
“The 'New Orthodoxy': NAFTA Chapter Eleven and the Implications for the FTAA”, Convergence and Divergence in North America: Canada and the United States, Karl Froschauer, Nadine Fabbi, and Susan Pell (eds.), Burnaby: Centre for Canadian Studies, Simon Fraser University, 2006
“The Future of Canada-Mexico Relations According to Canada's International Policy Statement”, Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses/Mexican Journal of Canadian Studies , nueva época, 2006
“Outsourcing of Justice: A New International Orthodoxy?” Global Norms in the Twenty-First Century, Kees van der Pijl and Klaus-Gerd Giesen (eds.), UK, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006
“Has the Third World War Broken Out? Reflections on the Place of Terrorism in International Conflict and its Impact on the Transformation of the Law of War”, The Faces of Terrorism , Sebastian Wojciechowski (ed.), Institute of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz Unive rsity, Poznań, Poland, 2006
Not peer reviewed
“R. v. Hape: International Law Before the SCC”, The Advocate , forthcoming, 2008
“The Under-Representation of Women and Women's Perspectives in International Dispute Resolution Processes”, CBA, International Law Section’s Newsletter and http://womenlawyersblog.com/ , forthcoming early 2008, and Women Lawyers Blog at www.tradelawyersblog.com , forthcoming, early 2008
“ The state of women lawyers in international practice and the role of women in the practice of international law ”, The Common Room , Canadian Bar Association National Women Lawyers Forum Newsletter, Oct. 2007
“Comparative Adjudicative Responses to Terrorism”, The Global Gavel , Washington State Bar Association, International Practice Section e-newsletter, Summer 2007, Vol. 2, No.3.
“Outlook on Canada and EU investments: Is there a future for an investor – State provision in the TIEA?”, Dec. 15, The Lawyers Weekly , December 15, 2006, with Kerstin Hewel
“A Reassessment of the International Wrong: Self–Help Remedies for International Wrongs & Countermeasures in Humanitarian Law”, 35th Annual CCIL Conference Proceedings, 2006 , forthcoming.
“The Concept of Appeal in International Dispute Settlement”, McCarthy Tétrault LLP's Knowledge Management Database, reprint for internal purposes only, 2006
“The Concept of Appeal”, Dispute Resolution – International Treaties and Trade , International Law National Section, CBA Canadian Legal Conference and Expo 2006, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Aug. 13-15, 2006, CD ROM
“Negotiating in the WTO: The Positions of the EU and Canada Regarding the Investor”, The Lawyers Weekly , October 13, 2006, with Kerstin Hewel
“Legal Issues Arising in the Canada-EU Investment Regime in the Post-Enlargement EU: The Avenues of Recourse for the Non-European Investor in the EU”, The Lawyers Weekly , July 14, 2006, with Kerstin Hewel
“Forum on Faith-Based Arbitration”, Possibilities , CBA National Alternative dispute Resolution Section Newsletter, April 2006
“Legal Issues Arising in the Canada-EU Investment Regime in the Post-Enlargement EU: The Avenues of Recourse for the European Investor in the EU”, The Lawyers Weekly , April 1, 2006, with Kerstin Hewel
Selected Conference Papers/Participation
2007
Nov. 2007 Panel Organizer and presenter, 100th Anniversary celebration of the 1907 Hague Rules , ITS & Political Science department, Kwantlen University College
October 2007 Panel organizer & joint-paper presented, “Inventing and Reviving International Legal Instruments to Address the Diversification of International Security Threats”, International Law Weekend 2007, Towards a New Vision of International Law, American International Law Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, NY
October 2007 Paper presented, “The Under-Representation of Women and Women's Perspectives in International Dispute Resolution Processes”, International Bar Association, Annual Conference, Singapore
August 2007 Joint paper presented,Urban Justice and Sustainability . International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
June 2007 Paper presented, Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on Occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian Context . An International Conference, The Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, and The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Tel Aviv Delegation, & The Konrad Adenauer Foundation, IL
Apr. 2007 Panel organizer & paper presented, Crossing Borders . Association for Borderland Studies Annual Conference (Joint 31st Annual Conference, Association for Borderland Studies & 49th Annual Conference, Western Social Studies Association, Calgary, Alta.
Mar-Apr. 2007 Panelists and Arbitration Panel President, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna, AU
March 2007 Paper presented , Adapting North American Security Relations to Terrorist Threats . Simon Fraser University Workshop, Burnaby, BC
Feb. 2007 Paper presented , Towards Building a Peaceful Society: Role of Religion . An International Seminar. The Punjabi University and the International Interfaith Centre, Oxford (U.K.) Patiala, India
Feb. 2007 Paper presented, Institutional Development for Cascadia: Law and Politics, LGI Seminar Event Series, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, February 8, 2007, Victoria, BC
