Staff & Faculty Directory

Chuka Achu recently completed his PhD in Law at Western University, where his research focused on how developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa can leverage Canada’s climate change policy approach through legal transplant mechanisms to address the impacts of climate change while supporting the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Erez Aloni’s scholarship examines how the law of family and intimacy both reflects and reshapes broader legal and social orders. He is particularly interested in family law’s exceptional position within private law and in the distributive consequences of regulating marriage, cohabitation, and surrogacy. His work highlights the paradoxes of recognition: how legal reforms designed to promote equality can also entrench hierarchy and produce new forms of disadvantage.

Tania 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.

Joel 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

Patricia M. Barkaskas is Métis from Alberta. Her work examines the intersections of justice and law, with an emphasis on the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and disrupting the normative violence of colonial legal education. Her research focuses on Indigenous laws, access to justice for Indigenous peoples, decolonizing and Indigenizing law, and using Indigenous pedagogies in experiential learning and skills-based legal education and training.

Georgia is a Development Coordinator and supports the Development and Alumni Engagement Team.