News & Announcements
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Dr. Craig Jones receives Canadian Housing and Renewal Association Leadership Award
Dr. Craig Jones, Director of the Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) Project based at Allard Law, has spent more than a decade trying to make sure that the people making housing decisions have the evidence they need to address Canada’s housing crisis.
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Professor Sara Gordon recognized for making legal learning “a joy” for students
Allard Law Professor Sara Gordon has been awarded the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.
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The UBC Innocence Project: Changing lives, changing legal practice
UBC Innocence Project students and alumni say the program has helped them bring empathy, compassion and a critical eye to their legal practice – and brought hope to those who have been wrongfully convicted.
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Mar 31, 2025How the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies empowers students and drives legal and social change
In this Q&A, we speak with law students and professors about the impact and the importance of the continuing work at the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies.
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Mar 11, 2025Dr. Jocelyn Stacey awarded UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship
Dr. Stacey, one of Canada’s leading scholars on disasters and Canadian law, will develop three interconnected projects that will help bridge the gap between the reality of climate change disasters and law and policy.
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Feb 27, 2025New study explores how people react to online hate
A study by Allard Law PhD student Kaitlyn Cumming and UBC Sociology PhD student Sophie Liu aims to bridge the gap between how legislators think about online hate and how victims actually experience it.
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Feb 5, 2025Statement on the passing of Hereditary Chief Bill Wilson
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Hereditary Chief Bill Wilson, Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla, on January 24, 2025. As the second Indigenous graduate from our law school in 1973, Chief Wilson’s legacy is woven into the fabric of the Peter A. Allard School of Law.
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Jan 29, 2025Justice, vulnerability and law’s limits: Meet Associate Professor Ireh Iyioha
Dr. Irehobhude O. Iyioha is a leading expert on health law and policy and international human rights law. Her innovative, interdisciplinary work draws upon moral and legal philosophy to examine why the law works in some cases – and why it fails.
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Jan 21, 2025Allard Research Commons celebrates one million downloads
Launched in 2017, the Allard Research Commons hosts a wide range of open access scholarly works, including articles, books and working papers by Allard Law faculty.