Who We Are
Noemi Gal-Or
(B.A., Tel Aviv University, Ph.D., Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, LL.B. University of British Columbia, Vancouver) is Director of the Institute for Transborder Studies (ITS) and professor at the Department of Political Science, Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She has published extensively in matters of security and strategic studies (specifically terrorism), international law (trade & investment, dispute settlement, humanitarian law, terrorism, and conflict resolution), international political economy and regional integration (cross-border integration, EU, NAFTA, FTAA), public policy, and migration. She consulted the Solicitor General of Canada and the Government of Israel in some of these areas. Prof. Gal-Or serves as member of the editorial board of The Journal of Conflict Studies, Centre for Conflict Studies, University of New Brunswick, and is manuscript referee for Oxford University Press; Canadian Journal of Political Science; and The Journal of Conflict Studies, St Antony's (Ox) International Review (STAIR).
Prof. Gal-Or is an active member of the Law Society of British Columbia (BC) and the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and other legal professional and academic associations. She is currently serving on the Executive of the CBA National International Law Section, is co-Chair of its Trade & Investment Committee, member of its Canadian International Lawyer Committee, and the legislative liaison of the International Law Section of the BC Branch of the CBA; member of the Board of Directors, International Law association (ILA) Canadian Branch, which she represents on the ILA’s Non-State Actor and Feminism and International Law Committees; member of ArbitralWomen; and member of the Canada-US Relations Committee of the Vancouver Board of Trade. She is a frequent contributor to various legal professional publications incl. the Lawyers Weekly and the CBA’s International Law Bulletin.
Kevin Black (B.B.A., British Columbia Institute of Technology) is Administrative Assistant of the Institute for Transborder Studies, and is the Budget & Research Assistant for the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is currently completing the Certified General Accountant program, and attending Finance courses at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Surrey campus.
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson
