Peter A Allard School of Law

Staff & Faculty Directory

  • Keith Farquhar

    Professor Emeritus

    Keith Farquhar was called to the Bar of New Zealand in 1966. Professor Farquhar joined the Allard School of Law in 1976 as Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1990. Prior to coming to UBC, he served as Director of Research for the Law Reform Commission of B.C. and was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He also served with the Law Reform Commission of Ontario.

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  • Alexandra Flynn

    Associate Professor
    Director, Housing Research Collaborative

    Professor Alexandra Flynn’s teaching and research focus on municipal law and governance, administrative law, and property law. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, public reports, media articles, and a book on how cities are legally understood in law and how they govern, including the overlapping geographies and governance of city spaces, and the formal and informal bodies that represent residents.

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    • Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
    • Centre for Law and the Environment
    • Indigenous Legal Studies
  • Cristie Ford

    Professor

    Dr. Cristie Ford’s research focuses on regulation and governance theory, securities and financial regulation, and administrative law. Recently she has expanded her work to include access to justice and governance of the legal profession.

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    • Centre for Business Law
    • Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
  • Scott Franks

    Assistant Professor

    Franks is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation and is from northern Saskatchewan. His doctoral research investigates the judicial construction of Métis legal identity in the Alberta Métis settlements (University of Ottawa; SSHRC - Doctoral - Joseph-Armand Bombardier). His LLM research investigated barriers and opportunities to the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in law schools (SSHRC CGS-M, CBA Viscount Bennett, York University Graduate Fellowship and Scholarship, and Law Foundation of British Columbia).

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  • Katie Gardner

    Coordinator, Student Academic Services

    Katie Gardner 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 coordinates with the Centre for Accessibility the exams for law students. 

    Katie has a BA Hons in Graphic and Communication Design from the University of Leeds (UK).

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    • Student Affairs Office
  • Toby Goldbach

    Assistant Professor

    Toby Goldbach joined Peter A. Allard School of Law in 2017 following a two-year teaching fellowship at Cornell University Law School. Dr. Goldbach was a UBC Green College Leading Scholar (2018-2020) and is co-chair of the Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Innovations in Judging. 

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    • Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
  • Benjamin Goold

    Professor

    Dr Benjamin Goold is a Professor at the Allard School of Law. His major research interests include privacy rights, the use of surveillance technologies by the police and intelligence communities, and the governance of international borders. He is the author of numerous works on privacy, surveillance, and security, including CCTV and Policing (Oxford University Press) and Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing; edited with Liora Lazarus).

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