Drew Yewchuk
PhD Student
BA (Alberta), JD (Calgary), LLM (UBC)
- Email: dyewchuk@student.ubc.ca
Profile
Drew was a staff lawyer with the University of Calgary's Public Interest Law Clinic from 2018-2022. His work focuses on access to information law, government publicity and secrecy in democratic theory, species at risk law, environmental law, and the environmental liabilities resulting from extraction projects.
His Alberta specific writing can be found on the University of Calgary law blog.
Supervisor: Stepan Wood
Publications
Drew Yewchuk & Jocelyn Stacey, "The management of information on climate change-related disasters in British Columbia" (2026) 11 FACETS 1.
A Study in Executive Branch Noncompliance with Law : Government Secrecy, Endangered Species protection, and the Whitebark Pine (2024, LLM Thesis).
Drew Yewchuk, Shaun Fluker, & Martin Olszynski, “A Made-in-Alberta Failure: Unfunded Oil and Gas Closure Liability” (2023) 16:1 School of Public Policy Research Papers.
Martin Olszynski, Andrew Leach, & Drew Yewchuk, “Not Fit for Purpose: Oil Sands Mines and Alberta’s Mine Financial Security Program” (2023) 16:36 School of Public Policy Research Papers.
Stories from the Species at Risk Act: The Wolverine in Canada from 2003-2022.
Organization Affiliations
- Allard School of Law
Research Interests
- Administrative law and regulatory governance
- Environmental law, natural resources, and climate change
- Jurisprudence, legal theory, and critical studies
- Law and social justice
How do laws controlling what information government must make public change executive branch decisions on environmental protection?