In this episode, Amy interviews Douglas F. Harrison. Mr. Harrison has acted as a presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator in numerous ad hoc arbitrations and in arbitrations under the ICDR Canada, ICDR International, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and National Automobile Dealer Arbitration Program Rules.

He brings to his arbitration and mediation practice over 30 years of experience as a litigator with Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto, conducting a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice for clients from around the world. He was also Vice-Chair of the firm's national Claims & Risk Management Committee for several years and a member of the firm's national Professional & Ethics Committee.

For more about Mr. Harrison, please visit

https://harrisonadr.com/

In this episode, Amy interviews Joan Johnsen. Prof. Johnsen specializes in Alternative Dispute Resolution related skills including negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. Professor Johnsen also coaches the International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition Team, is the co-faculty advisor to the ADR Teams, and is the Director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Professor Johnsen has over thirty years’ experience mediating and arbitrating matters including banking and financial, employment, health law, and other large and complex commercial matters and her teaching reflects her expansive practical experience and expertise. She is on numerous dispute resolution panels including the arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, the International Center for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (“CPR”), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). Professor Johnsen is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, (“FCIArb”), is certified by the International Mediation Institute, (“IMI”), and accredited by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (“CEDR”).

For more about Prof. Johnsen, visit

https://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/joan-stearns-johnsen

In this episode, Amy interviews Tamar Meshel. Prof. Meshel is an Associate Professor and CN Professor of International Trade. She holds a J.D. degree from the University of British Columbia, and a B.A. (Hons), LL.M., and SJD degrees from the University of Toronto.

Tamar practiced international commercial arbitration in a law firm in Vancouver, as Deputy Counsel at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and as a legal advisor to the Jerusalem Arbitration Center in Israel and Palestine. She was also a Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg, a Scholar-in-Residence with WilmerHale's international arbitration group in London, UK, a Visiting Scholar with the University of Edinburgh Law School in Scotland, and a lecturer on international commercial arbitration at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.

Tamar has authored over 50 publications. 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.

For more about Prof. Meshel, visit https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/meshel

To learn more about her research on the empirical analysis of the Federal Arbitration Act in the lower courts, visit https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4585828