Staff & Faculty Directory
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Emma Cunliffe
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 1849
View ProfileDr Emma Cunliffe is a Professor in the Allard School of Law. Dr Cunliffe studies how courts decide the facts of contested cases. She is particularly interested in expert evidence, the operation of implicit bias, and legal processes regarding gendered and racialized violence, particularly those regarding Indigenous people. Dr Cunliffe is a member of the evidence-based forensic initiative, which is based at the University of New South Wales (where she is a senior visiting fellow).
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Catherine Dauvergne, KC (on leave)
Professor
- Email: dauvergne@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileProfessor Dauvergne has been working in the area of refugee, immigration, and citizenship law over the past quarter of a century. For a decade she held the Canada Research in Migration Law. In 2012, Dauvergne was named a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in recognition of her contributions to public discourse in Canada. In 2019 she was honoured with a Queen’s Counsel designation.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Ronald Davis
Associate Professor Emeritus
- Phone: 604 822 0131
- Email: davis@allard.ubc.ca
Ron Davis' research interests are pension law, corporate law, trust law, law and economics, law and society, and insolvency law. His doctoral dissertation concerned the role of pension funds in corporate governance, focusing on the potential exercise of control over these activities by the employee-beneficiaries and whether such control could lead to increased corporate social responsibility. Professor Davis received a Capital Markets Research Fellowship and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship for this project.View Profile -
Morika DeAngelis
Research Assistant
Housing Research Collaborative; Housing Assessment Resource Tools project- Phone: 604.827.5672
- Email: deangelis@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileMorika received her B.A. in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the University of British Columbia and her M.S. in Urban Planning and Policy Design from Politecnico di Milano. She has experience with stakeholder engagement, concept design, policy analysis and visual communication. Morika’s research interests in urban planning and policy analysis include ageing in place through the continuum of care, the spatial dimensions of decolonial planning and decolonial protests, and media representations of intersectional marginalization in the urban landscape.
- Allard School of Law
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Janice Desouza-Vas
Administrative Assistant
Faculty, FAC Council/Curriculum Committee, Centre for Asian Legal Studies- Phone: 604 822 2192
- Email: desouzavas@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileJanice is an Administrative Assistant at Allard Law.
- Centre for Asian Legal Studies
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Robert Diebolt, KC
Professor Emeritus
- Phone: 604 822 6640
- Email: diebolt@allard.ubc.ca
Robert Diebolt was called to the Bar of B.C., 1975, and was appointed Associate Dean of the Allard School of Law from 1992-1997. Professor Diebolt was appointed Assistant Professor in 1971. He worked in private practice from 1975-77 and 1988-90. Professor Diebolt's teaching subjects include: Commercial Law and Secured Transactions. Prof. Diebolt was an elected Bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia for many years and is now a Life Bencher of the Law Society.View Profile -
David Duff
Professor
- Phone: 604 827 3586
- Email: duff@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileDavid G. Duff is Professor of Law and Director of the Tax LLM program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and writes in the areas of areas of tax law and policy, corporate and international taxation, environmental taxation and distributive justice.
- Centre for Business Law
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Elizabeth Edinger
Professor Emeritus
- Email: edinger@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileElizabeth Edinger joined the Allard School of Law in 1978 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986. Professor Edinger served as Associate Dean from 1988-1992 and from 1997-2003. Her teaching areas include Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Laws and Creditors Remedies.She has published in each of these areas.
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Robin Elliot
Emeritus Professor of Law
- Phone: 604.822.4232
View ProfileProfessor Elliot joined the Allard School of Law as Assistant Professor in 1976, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983 and to Professor in 1991. He has twice served as an Associate Dean, first as Associate Dean, Student Affairs from 1991-93 and subsequently as Associate Dean, Administration and Finance from 2003-06. He served as the Director of Legal Research for the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution (Fraser Committee) from 1983-85, and as the Executive Legal Officer of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1995-97.
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Julen Etxabe
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights
- Phone: 604 822 3881
- Email: etxabe@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileJulen Etxabe is Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights and joined Allard Law as Assistant Professor in July of 2019. His current research combines legal and literary theory to identify a new model of dialogical judgment emerging in the area of human rights, which is transforming inherited notions of reasoning, rights, authority, and law in the post-national and diverse societies of the 21st century.