Event Description
This session demonstrates how mental health and wellbeing as core to learning the law. The ability to regulate stress, maintain focus, and follow through on commitments directly affects how effectively you read, think, and perform under pressure. Students will be introduced to practical strategies for managing stress responses, building accountability, and sustaining engagement with demanding material - skills that are essential to both academic success and long-term legal practice.
This Academic Success Lecture is open to students in all years of the JD program.
Speakers
Dr Emma Cunliffe is a Professor in the Allard School of Law. Dr Cunliffe studies how courts decide the facts of contested cases. She is particularly interested in expert evidence, the operation of implicit bias, and legal processes regarding gendered and racialized violence, particularly those regarding Indigenous people. Dr Cunliffe is also a member of the evidence-based forensic initiative, which is based at the University of New South Wales.
Dr. Carol Liao is Professor at Allard Law and the Distinguished Fellow of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the UBC Sauder School of Business. Her research focuses on corporate law and sustainability, climate governance, and social justice. She is the Chair and Principal Co-Investigator of the Canada Climate Law Initiative, a leading knowledge mobilization and policy hub advancing governance actions by directors and other fiduciaries in the transition to a net-zero carbon economy. She is also the Co-Director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice, the only academic climate justice-focused centre in Canada studying climate impacts through the lens of social inequity to facilitate systemic change.
Brogan Pastro is a Partner at Bernard LLP. He obtained his BA (Law with French Law) from New College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He then attended the Peter A. Allard School of Law where he obtained an LLM in Common Law. Before joining Bernard LLP in 2024 he practiced as a litigation lawyer in the Kootenays and in Vancouver. Brogan maintains a general litigation practice and has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in British Columbia, including the Court of Appeal, as well as practicing in the Federal Court.
Melody Song is a 3L Student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. She holds a BS in Microbiology and Immunology.
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