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Tamar Meshel is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in Canada, and an Affiliate member of the International Water Law Academy (IWLA).

Professor Meshel completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, focusing on international watercourses law from a dispute resolution perspective. She continues to research transboundary freshwater dispute resolution, and has published and lectured extensively in this field.Professor Meshel is a board member of the Canadian Council on International Law andhas beena guest lecturer atthe International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) Nippon Program.

Professor Meshel’spublications include:

· ‘The Harmon Doctrine is Dead, Long Live the Harmon Doctrine!’, 63 Virginia Journal of International ‎Law 1 (2022)‎.

· ‘Artificial Waterways in International Water Law: An American Law Perspective’, 55 Vanderbilt Journal of ‎Transnational Law 49 (2022)‎.

· ‘Transboundary Watercourses, Dams, and Human Migration: An International Water Law Perspective’, 9 Cambridge ‎International Law Journal 154 (2020)‎.

· Swimming Against the Current: Revisiting the Principles of International Water Law in the Resolution of Fresh Water ‎Disputes, 61 HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 135 (2020).‎

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Dr. Tamar Meshel is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. She ‎holds academic degrees from the University of British Columbia (J.D.) and the University of ‎Toronto (B.A. Hons, LL.M., and SJD). Dr. Meshel researches, teaches, and consults in the areas of ‎domestic and international arbitration, international water law, and transboundary freshwater ‎dispute resolution. She has authored more than 40 publications in these fields. Previously, she ‎worked as an international dispute resolution lawyer in Vancouver, Canada, as Deputy Counsel ‎at the International Court of Arbitration in Paris, France, and as legal advisor to the Jerusalem ‎Arbitration Center in Israel and Palestine. She was also a Research Fellow with the Max Planck ‎Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg, and a ‎Schulich Fellow at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Dr. Meshel is a ‎board member of the Canadian Council on International Law. ‎