Peter A Allard School of Law
Staff & Faculty Directory
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Natasha Affolder
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 0734
- Email: affolder@allard.ubc.ca
Natasha 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.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Centre for Law and the Environment
Erez Aloni
Associate Professor
- Phone: 604 827 3572
- Email: aloni@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileErez Aloni’s primary research interests lie in the legal regulation of adult relationships and complex family structures. His work stages the family as an institution affected by a broad range of laws, norms, and economic structures; he is particularly interested in distributional results of legal regulation of the household and the intersection of private law with family law. Aloni’s projects have explored the emerging menu of options for legal recognition of relationships and whether they protect the interests of the economically weaker partner.
Efrat Arbel
Associate Professor
- Phone: 604 822 6287
- Email: arbel@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileEfrat Arbel is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law. She publishes and teaches in refugee law, prison law, constitutional law, and tort law. Her primary research examines how legal rights are negotiated and defined in liminal legal spaces like the border, the detention center, and the prison.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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 graduate seminar.
Patricia M. Barkaskas
Associate Professor of Teaching
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
Nicole Barrett
Assistant 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
Janine Benedet
Dean pro tem and Professor
- Phone: 604 822 2818
- Email: lawdean@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileJanine Benedet joined the law school faculty in 2005 and currently serves as Dean pro tem. Her first stop after her L.L.B. graduation from UBC was a clerkship with 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, where she also taught as a Visiting Faculty Fellow. She practiced labour law in Toronto from 1997 to 1999, and was a member of faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1999-2005.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Dean's Office
Samuel Beswick
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 604 827 0865
- Email: beswick@allard.ubc.ca
Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick is a private law scholar with primary research interests in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment, limitations, remedies, and privacy. His current research concerns the temporal scope of judicial changes in the law. Dr. Beswick has published his research in leading common law journals, and has presented at workshops and conferences across North America and in the United Kingdom.View ProfileBrenna Bhandar
Associate Professor
- Email: bhandar@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfilePrior to joining Allard Law, Brenna was a Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London, and previously held faculty positions at the Queen Mary School of Law, Kent Law School and the University of Reading Law School. She has also held visiting appointments at L’École des hautes études en science sociales (Paris) and the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law (South Africa).
Dr Brian Bird
Assistant Professor
- Email: bird@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileBrian Bird’s primary research interests are constitutional law and theory, interactions between courts and legislatures, jurisprudence, philosophy of law, legal history, and bills of rights.
Before joining Allard Law, Brian was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. At Princeton, Brian was also a lecturer in Politics.
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