News & Announcements
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Free, interactive Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy explores the rights of nature
The two-day academy featuring world-renowned speakers is free and open to anyone interested in how law and activism can protect the natural world.
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New initiative at UBC looks to the future of AI and criminal justice
The UBC AI & Criminal Justice Initiative launches this fall at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Led by Professor Benjamin Perrin, the initiative includes practical educational resources and a new upper-year seminar and symposium for students.
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Helping students hone their legal reasoning, writing and research skills: Meet Lecturer Moira Aikenhead
A recent graduate of Allard Law’s LLM and PhD programs, Dr. Moira Aikenhead is teaching Law 241: Torts and Law 281: Legal Research and Writing.
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Jun 28, 2024Putting community at the core of sustainability research
Community-based research projects are instigating knowledge gathering, empowering communities and giving students a holistic look at legal structures they may not have encountered otherwise.
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Jun 26, 2024New 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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Jun 25, 2024Indigenous 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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Jun 17, 2024Experiences 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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Jun 6, 2024Allard Law Professor Hoi Kong recognized for teaching excellence
Allard Law professor Dr. Hoi Kong was awarded UBC’s Killam Teaching Prize and the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.
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May 22, 2024Allard Law celebrates a historic gift to advance equity, diversity and inclusion and racial justice work
A $2.157 million gift from the Law Foundation of British Columbia will support the advancement of EDI and racial justice work at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC.