LYNDA ERICKSON ...
B.A., Ph.D. (University of Alberta)

Office: AQ-6050

E-mail: erickson@sfu.ca

Lynda J. Erickson, Professor, specializes in Canadian government and politics, political parties, political behaviour, public opinion and women and politics. Her recent publications include articles on the gender gap in voting, support for ethnic candidates in elections, internal party politics in the NDP, nomination practices in the federal parties and voting patterns for women candidates. She is also a former assistant editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

Dr. Erickson is also co-author of Grassroots Politicians: Party Activists in BC (1991), and is currently working on a project on public opinion and the welfare state.

MAUREEN COVELL

B.A. (UBC) M.A. (Yale )

Ph.D. (Yale University)

Office: AQ-6050

E-mail:covell@sfu.ca

Maureen Covell - with research interests in the politics of multinational societies, comparative federalism and the process of constitutional revision. An earlier interest in African politics led to the publication of two books: Madagascar: Politics, Economics and Society and Madagascar: A Historical Dictionary. She is currently working on a comparative study of constitutional change in Belgium, Canada, and the European Community.

Theodore Cohn, Professor Emeritus. His research interests include global and regional trade policy, international institutions, theories of international relations, and global cities. He is the author of Canadian Food Aid: Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications (1979), The International Politics of Agricultural Trade: Canadian-American Relations in a Global Agricultural Context (1990), 2 editions of Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice (2000 and 2003), and Governing Global Trade: International Institutions in Conflict and Convergence (December 2002). He is a co-editor of Innovation Systems in a Global Context (1998) and Power in the Global Era (2000). Dr. Cohn has also written many smaller monographs and articles on international trade, foreign debt, international development, crossborder issues, and global cities. Currently he is co-authoring a book on international organization.

Edward McWhinney, Professor Emeritus. Dr. McWhinney has been an Assistant Professor at Yale University, and has held full Chairs at Toronto, McGill (Montreal), and Indiana. He has been a Visiting Professor at Paris, Aix-Marseilles, Nice, Madrid, Heidelberg, the Max-Planck Institute, the Institut Universitaire de Luxembourg, The Hague Academy, The National University of Mexico, and other institutions. He has also lectured extensively in the Communist world - among other institutions, at the Institut Gosudarstvo I Pravo in Moscow, at the Jagellonian University of Cracow, at the Chinese Academy, the University of Peking and other centres in the People's Republic. He has taught, in the last several years as a Visiting Professor, at the Sorbonne in 1982 and 1985 at the College de France in Paris in 1983, and at the Meiji University (Tokyo) in 1987. He has been a legal consultant to the United Nations; Constitutional Adviser to the Premier of Ontario and to the Premier of Quebec; Chief Adviser to the Federal Government's Task Force on National Unity (Pepin-Robarts Commission); Royal Commissioner of Enquiry to the Government of Quebec; Special Commissioner of Enquiry for the Government of British Columbia; Special Adviser to the Canadian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as Constitutional and International Law Adviser to a number of foreign governments. The author of 23 books (two in French and one in German), editor of 11 symposium volumes, and author of several hundred scientific articles, he is the first jurist from Canada to be elected to the century-old Institut de Droit International. He has been a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) and is a member of the Institut Grand-Ducal of Luxembourg, and the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé (Paris). Areas of interest include Federal Constitutional Law and Government, International Law and International Organization.

F. QUEI QUO, Professor Emeritus, taught and did research work at several universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. He was a Japan Foundation Professional Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tsukuba (1985-7). He also lectured at various universities and research institutes in the People's Republic of China in 1981-3. Dr. Quo specializes in comparative government and politics (Japan, China) and International Relations.He is the author of Political Systems: An Introductory Analysis, co-editor and contributor to Parliament, Policy and Representation, editor of Politics Among the Pacific Rim Nations. The Future of Taiwan, Vol. I (1983) and Vol. II (1987), and has contributed numerous articles and reviews on Asia in various academic journals and books. His major research interest is in the area of international and comparative politics with emphasis on Japan and China.

Martin Robin, Professor Emeritus, received his B.A. from the University of Manitoba and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He taught for three years at Queen's University before joining Simon Fraser University. He served as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, and Visiting Scholar in the Canadian Studies Program, Duke University. His main interest is Canadian politics and he has published many articles as well as seven books in the areas of labour politics, Canadian political and social history, British Columbia politics and provincial politics.