Staff & Faculty Directory

David 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. 

Godwin Dzah is an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. His teaching and research interests include public, international, comparative and environmental law. His works have been published in edited volumes and in leading peer-reviewed law journals including the Ocean Yearbook, the African Journal of International and Comparative Law, the African Human Rights Law Journal and the Canadian Yearbook of International Law.

Professor 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.

Julen 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.

Salima received her BComm (Honours) from Queen’s University and her JD (Honours) from the University of Toronto. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2018 and has practiced in the areas of corporate, securities, financial services, consumer protection and regulatory law. She also has a growing interest in fertility and reproductive justice.   

Rosanna is the Executive Assistant to Dean.

Jon Festinger, K.C. has been a long-serving Adjunct Professor at the Allard School of Law (since 1992), now Lecturer. He teaches the following courses at Allard: Torts; Intellectual Property Law; A.I. and the Law; Copyright Law and Social Media; Video Game Law; Communications Law; Media & Entertainment Law; and Business Organizations. In March 2019 he received a Teaching Service Award from the Allard School of Law.