Boards of Directors

 Companies

Board of Directors, UNISEARCH
Director, New South Strategies
President, Trakman & Associates
President, LET Commercial Consulting Inc.
Webwise.ws
Gotra Chemical Company
Heleon Investments
Wondor Products

 Professional Associations

Board of Directors, International Mediation Centre (IMC), Dallas, Texas, 1995-1998

Public Interest Appointments

Boards of Editors

Decanal Advisor, The University of New South Wales Law Journal 2002 -
Editorial Board, South African Law Journal, 2002-
Co-Editor in Chief, Doing Business in Mexico, 2000-
Board of Editors, Constitutional Review, 1997-  
Editorial Board, Canadian J. of Insurance Law, 1987-95
Consulting Editor, Company Law Journal, 1981-87
Consulting Editor, Insurance Law Journal, 1981-87
Associate Editor, Dalhousie Law Journal, 1976-78

Others

Initiated the Campaign for the construction of a $60 million purpose-built law building for the UNSW Faculty of Law, to be completed in July 2006 (see http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/newBuilding/index.asp)

Initiated Major Gift Campaign for the Faculty of Law at UNSW (2005)

Initiated the Governance Review of the Faculty of Law at UNSW (2005)

Initiated the International Law Alumni Chapter of UNSW (2003)

Decanal Chair and/or Member of inter alia: Dean’s Advisory Committee, Staffing, Admissions, Education, Post-Graduate Studies, Faculty Standing Committee and Faculty Board (University of New South Wales, Feb. 2002 to present)

Special Advisor to the University of New South Wales on Good Practices in University Governance, 2006-2007

Judge, Law and Justice Foundation Awards, Australia (2003)

Member, Barrister’s Society Legal Education Committee, New South Wales (2005 - )

Organizer and/or instructor in mediation and arbitration, for certification and satisfaction of continuing legal education requirements (eg. ABA; CBA, El Centro Jurici del ITESM; World Trade Center, Monterray; Chamber of Commerce, Dallas; El Centro Internacional de Mediacion; Y El Centro de Resolution du Controversias Mexico-Estados Unidos; Un. San Antonio, Texas; SMU, Dallas, Texas; Dalhousie in Halifax, Canada 1992 to present) 

National Selection Panel, Molson Prize, Canada (1999-2001)

Bora Laskin Fellowship, National Selection Committee, Canada (1999-2002)

External Examiner, various University Programs (eg. Political Science, Un. Montreal, 2000; Un. of Quebec, Montreal, 1998)

Project Chair, the Efficient Resolution of Business Disputes (Canadian Bar Association, 1995-97)

Chair, University Discipline Committee, Dalhousie University (1988)

Co-Chair, Committee on Section 15 of the Charter of Rights, Province of Nova Scotia (1987)       

Member and then Chair, National Panel, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Panel awarding grants in different disciplines, 1984-90)

Chair, Senate, Committee on Committees, Dalhousie University (1984-87)

Chair, National Panel, Graduate Student Awards, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1983-85)

Convener, National Conference on Professional Competence and the Law (1980-81)

Chair, Legal Education Committee, Canadian Bar Association, N.S. (1979)

Chair, Information Technology Policy Committee; Tenure and Promotions Committee, Graduate Studies Committee, Student Liaison Committee, Dalhousie Law School (1977-97)

External examiner, masters and doctorate dissertations in law, political science, philosophy and education at universities in the U.S., U.K., Canada and South Africa (1977 to present)

External assessor, grant proposals and book manuscripts for research foundations and book publishers (eg. Oxford University Press, Toronto University Press, Transnational Legal Publishers) (1977 to present)

Chair and lecturer at symposia and conferences on dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation and the NAFTA, under the auspices of governments, bar associations, arbitration and mediation associations, universities and law schools (1977 to present)

Coordinator of lecture series on business, law and education (1976 to present)