News & Announcements
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New student award honours the remarkable mentorship of two notable figures at Allard Law
Thanks to a generous endowment, the newly established Elaine Borthwick and Allen Soroka Award in Law aims to help make law school more accessible to mature students.
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Indigenous alumni share their law school experiences over the last 50 years
Reconciliation begins with truth. This is the impetus behind a new project sharing the stories of Indigenous law school alumni, along with former faculty and staff, who studied and worked at Allard Law over the past 50 years.
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Experiences and insights from Allard Law students’ upper-year moots
Congratulations to all Allard Law students who participated in our upper-year moots! Three of our upper-year mooters shared what they took away from the experience.
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May 19, 2021
Leading one of BC’s largest legal aid providers: Meet law student Connie Do
Allard Law student Connie Do served as executive director of the student-run Law Students’ Legal Advice Program throughout 2020. Now about to graduate, Connie explains what made her time with LSLAP so rewarding and what it was like running the organization during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Apr 7, 2021
Vancouver Sun: Provinces are partners, not parents, to their cities
Opinion: Some large cities are bigger than provinces, grappling with urgent matters like infrastructure and housing, and are the first and most intimate level of democratic participation. Mentioned: Alexandra Flynn & Margot Young
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Mar 18, 2021
Vancouver Sun: Indigenous peoples' pandemic experiences show we're not 'all in this together,' but we could be
Opinion: Not everyone faces a pandemic with a deep-seated mistrust of the health-care system. But this is one of the challenges that the Tŝilhqot’in Nation faced. Mentioned: Jocelyn Stacey
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Feb 26, 2021
New gift will continue faculty exchange program between Allard School of Law, UBC & Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Allard School of Law at UBC is pleased to announce a very generous gift from the Koffman family in support of a faculty exchange program between the Allard School of Law, UBC and the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Feb 19, 2021
Allard Law in the Year of COVID
The dedicated faculty and staff of the Allard Law community spent much of the past year navigating the unchartered territory of operating a law school remotely. Here are some highlights from what has been an unprecedented year.
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Feb 17, 2021
Immigration Detention in the Age of COVID-19
Learn about Professor Efrat Arbel and PhD Candidate Molly Joeck’s burgeoning research on shifts in the legal regulation of Immigration Detention in response to COVID-19, and the unexpected progressive possibilities ushered in by the global pandemic.