Staff & Faculty Directory
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Dennis Pavlich
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 4272
- Email: pavlich@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileDennis Pavlich is a professor in the Allard School of Law at UBC. A graduate of Witwatersrand University and Yale Law School, Professor Pavlich has been an academic for over 30 years and on three occasions has received awards for teaching excellence, including the University's Killam Teaching Prize and the Faculty of Law’s George Curtis Teaching Award. Professor Pavlich teaches courses on property law, the law of trusts and historical comparative law. He has also lectured extensively in the field of education law.
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Maziar Peihani
Assistant Professor, Lawson Lundell UBC Professor in Business Law
- Phone: 604 822 3856
- Email: peihani@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileMaziar Peihani holds the Lawson Lundell UBC Professorship of Business Law. His teaching and research are centered on the intersection of law and the financial system, with a particular focus on banking regulation, financial crises, financial institution restructuring, and sovereign debt markets. Prior to joining UBC in 2019, he was the lead in-house expert on financial law at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, a Canadian think tank specializing in global governance, law, and regulation.
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Patricia Penaflorida
Coordinator, Student Academic Services
- Phone: 604 827 5728
- Email: penaflorida@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfilePatricia Penaflorida is the Coordinator, Student Academic Services at the Allard School of Law. She works with the Academic Services team on course scheduling, course registration, exams and grade processing. She also manages the registration of students into directed research, moots, clinics/externships, special permission courses and the Criminal Law clinic.
Patricia has a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
- Student Affairs Office
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Benjamin Perrin
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 1208
- Email: perrin@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileBen Perrin researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law and international law. He joined UBC in 2007 after serving as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and advising judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Special Court for Sierra Leone. Ben was lead criminal justice advisor and in-house legal counsel to the Prime Minister of Canada.
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Aleksandar Petrovic
Research Grants Writer
- Phone: 604 822 3832
- Email: petrovic@allard.ubc.ca
Dr. Aleksandar Petrovic is the Research Grants and Award Writer with the Allard School of Law. He leads development and delivery of strategic research support for faculty under the general direction of the Associate Dean Research, and provides strategic feedback and nomination support for research awards and prizes.View Profile- Research
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Ngai Pindell
Dean and Professor
- Email: lawdean@allard.ubc.ca
Dean Pindell received his A.B. (Economics) in 1993 from Duke University and his J.D. in 1996 from Harvard Law School. Following graduation, he practiced community development law in Baltimore, MD, followed by a fellowship and visiting assistant professorship at the University of Baltimore School of Law Community Development Clinic. He joined the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and earned promotion to Professor in 2008.View Profile- Dean's Office
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Catalina Policzer
Senior Manager, HR & Operations
- Phone: 604.822.6882
- Email: policzer@allard.ubc.ca
Catalina Policzer is the Senior Manager, HR & Operations.View Profile- Administration
- Dean's Office
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John Popham
Director
Admissions and Recruitment- Email: popham@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileJohn works collaboratively with the admissions team to develop and implement effective admissions and recruitment strategies, policies, and procedures, to provide individuals with a fair application process leading to their enrollment and success as a Law student.
- JD Admissions
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Pitman Potter
Professor (Emeritus)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Member, Order of Canada- Phone: 604 822 5653
- Email: potter@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfilePitman Potter retired from UBC in 2020. Prior to his retirement, Potter served in various roles at Allard Hall, including as Director of Chinese Legal Studies, Director of Asian Legal Studies, Director of the Graduate Program, and Associate Dean. Potter also served as Director of UBC’s Institute of Asian Research during 1999-2008, where he held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research (1999- 2016).
- Centre for Asian Legal Studies
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Lisa Ramasami
Legal Assistant
- Email: ramasami@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileLisa is a dedicated Legal Assistant at the Indigenous Community Legal Clinic. Her journey in the legal profession started in Toronto, where she completed her Paralegal Diploma at Humber College, subsequently becoming a licensed Paralegal with the Law Society of Ontario. Since then, she has grown and contributed her skills to the in-house legal teams of companies in the Cybersecurity and Wood Products industry, focusing on corporate governance and commercial contracts, and in law firms such as Torys LLP and Chatarpaul & Associates.
- Indigenous Community Legal Clinic