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