Staff & Faculty Directory
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Natasha Affolder
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 0734
- Email: affolder@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileNatasha Affolder is a Professor and a former Associate Dean Research and International at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She is a leading scholar in transnational environmental law whose research explores some of the most challenging and complex issues of our time. Her recent scholarship has sought to reveal and to challenge the marginalization of environmental law in legal practice and scholarship and to creatively expand the methods for studying environmental law and its global movements.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Centre for Law and the Environment
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Moira Aikenhead
Lecturer
- Email: aikenhead@allard.ubc.ca
Moira Aikenhead is a Lecturer at the Allard School of Law. Her current research focuses on the adequacy of federal and provincial responses to technology-facilitated gender violence from a feminist perspective. At Allard, Professor Aikenhead teaches Torts and Legal Research and Writing.View Profile- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Dalia Al Houseini (on leave)
Indigenous Legal Studies Programs Coordinator
- Phone: 604.827.4720
Dalia (she/her/hers) is supporting Indigenous Legal Studies’ various programs. She has extensive experience working with diverse stakeholders in local and international settings to advance social justice. Supporting individuals in identifying and realizing their goals is what gets her excited to work every day.View Profile- Indigenous Legal Studies
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Erez Aloni
Associate Professor
- Phone: 604 827 3572
- Email: aloni@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileErez Aloni's primary research interests center around the legal regulation of adult relationships and complex family structures. He stages the family as an institution influenced by a broad range of laws, norms, and economic structures. His particular focus lies in understanding the distributional outcomes of legal regulations within households and exploring the intersection of private law with family law.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Efrat Arbel
Associate Professor
Member of the Bar of British Columbia- Phone: 604 822 6287
- Email: arbel@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileEfrat Arbel is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law. Her research examines how legal rights are negotiated and defined in liminal legal spaces like the border, the detention center, and the prison. She has published widely in these fields.
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Tania Astorino
Director, Professional Programs
- Phone: 604 822 0308
- Email: astorino@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileTania received her BA from Simon Fraser University and her JD from Queen’s University. She was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2004 and the British Columbia Bar in 2005, and practised civil litigation in Toronto and Ottawa. She also led the Legal and Finance Division of a continuing education provider in Toronto, and was directly involved in the full production life-cycle for professional programming that spanned a wide range of topics before returning home to Vancouver in 2014 for a new career opportunity at UBC.
- Graduate Programs
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Joel Bakan
Professor (on sabbatical)
- Phone: 604 822 5682
- Email: bakan@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileJoel Bakan writes and researches in the areas of Constitutional Law, socio-legal studies, legal theory and economic law. He has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and served as Law Clerk in 1985 for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada He joined the Law Faculty in 1990 as Associate Professor after a year's visit from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he had been Assistant Professor since 1987. Professor Bakan teaches Constitutional Law, Contracts, socio-legal courses and the gradu
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Patricia M. Barkaskas (on leave)
Associate Professor
Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic- Phone: 604 822 5629
- Email: barkaskas@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfilePatricia M. Barkaskas is Métis from Alberta. Her research focuses on the intersection of justice and law, including access to justice, clinical legal education, and decolonizing and Indigenizing law. She is particularly interested in examining the value of Indigenous pedagogies in experiential learning, clinical legal education, and skills-based legal training, and disrupting the normative violence of colonial legal education.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Indigenous Legal Studies
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Nicole Barrett
Associate Professor of Teaching
Director, International Justice and Human Rights Clinic- Phone: 604 827 0678
- Email: barrett@allard.ubc.ca
Nicole Barrett is Director of the International Justice and Human Rights (IJHR) Clinic at Allard Law, where she teaches international human rights, international criminal law international humanitarian law as well as a seminar on human trafficking law and policy.View Profile- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Centre for Law and the Environment
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Janine Benedet, KC
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 0637
- Email: benedet@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileProfessor Janine Benedet joined the law school faculty in 2005 after teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, where she also practiced labour and employment law. After her L.L.B. graduation from UBC she clerked for fellow UBC alumnus Justice Frank Iacobucci at the Supreme Court of Canada. That was followed by graduate studies – leading to both an LL.M. and an S.J.D. – at the University of Michigan. Professor Benedet teaches criminal law, labour law, legal ethics and the law of sexual offences.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies