Peter A Allard School of Law

Law @ UBC Distinguished Speaker Lecture

Event Description

Professor Wendy Wong will be delivering this year's Law at UBC Distinguished Speaker Lecture.

Speaker

Wendy H. Wong

Wendy H. Wong is currently a Professor of Political Science and the Principal's Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan (located on Sylix Okanagan Nation Territory). She is the author of the award-winning book We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age, published by MIT Press . She has written two other award-winning books, Internal Affairs and The Authority Trap (with Sarah S. Stroup), both published by Cornell University Press. She has penned dozens of peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and has appeared in outlets such as the CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and The Conversation.  She has been awarded grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, among other granting agencies.


  • Allard School of Law
  • Research
  • General Public
  • All Students
  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Students
  • JD
  • Staff
  • Research Talks
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