Staff & Faculty Directory

Bernie is the Senior Support Analyst at Allard Law.

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, and edited books on Indigenous municipal legal relationships, housing and homelessness, and the constitutional status of cities.

Dr. Cristie Ford is a leading scholar, nationally and internationally, in the fields of regulation and governance, securities and financial regulation, and administrative law.

JY is the Development Coordinator and supports the Development and Alumni Engagement Team.

Linda Foster is the Associate Director with Development & Alumni Engagement.

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 Prof Liora Lazarus).

Sara Gordon is an Associate Professor at the Allard School of Law. Her work examines how legal decision-making is shaped—not just by laws and evidence—but by the assumptions, conventional wisdom, and cognitive biases of the people making those decisions. Professor Gordon is particularly interested in how judges and lawyers often rely on outdated or unsupported ideas about mental health and human behavior, even as medical and psychological research continues to evolve.