Staff & Faculty Directory

Hassan Ahmad is an Assistant Professor at the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He writes and researches on topics related to corporate governance and accountability, climate change litigation, the separation of powers, transnational torts, the interaction of domestic jurisdiction and liability principles with international law, business and human rights law, and the emerging field of law and political economy.

Erez 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.

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.

Evan Atkinson is the Director, Career Services Office. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from the Peter A. Allard School of Law. He is responsible for developing and facilitating the career services resources and programming available to Allard Law students and recent alumni. Evan also provides career advising services and is responsible for business development and outreach to a diverse range of legal employers. Prior to joining Allard, Evan practiced at a large firm in Vancouver with a focus on insurance defence and commercial litigation.

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 graduate seminar.  

Debashish is a Career Advisor in the Career Services Office. He provides career advising to Allard students and recent alumni, and assists with planning the CSO’s annual programming and resources. He works closely with the legal, business and non-profit community to identify recruitment opportunities for Allard students and alumni. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings).

Patricia 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.