News & Announcements
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Allard Law Professor Isabel Grant receives UBC’s highest faculty honour
Professor Isabel Grant has been named a University Killam Professor – the highest honour UBC can confer on a faculty member.
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Should we recognize robot rights?
In this Q&A, Allard Law professor Benjamin Perrin and law student Nathan Cheung discuss a new upper-level course that explores whether robots need rights.
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Celebrating the launch of the Canada Climate Week Xchange 2025
Dr. Carol Liao discusses a new initiative co-founded by the Canada Climate Law Initiative, the Toronto Stock Exchange and other Canadian organizations that aims to support Canada’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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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.
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Apr 5, 2024It’s time to expand what we think of as "work," says Allard Law’s Supriya Routh
Allard Law Professor Supriya Routh has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Labour Law and Social Justice to examine how the law can more effectively support workers.