Staff & Faculty Directory

Camden Hutchison is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and the Director of the Centre for Business Law. His research and teaching focus on corporate transactions, comparative corporate governance, and the historical development of corporate law. He has also published on corporate taxation and competition law. His current research focuses on corporate governance and contractual negotiation in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

Michael Jackson has been involved in the teaching and advocacy of human rights for over thirty years, specializing in the areas of prisoners rights and Aboriginal rights. His courses on these subjects were the first to be introduced in a Canadian law school. Professor Jackson is a member of the bar of British Columbia and has represented prisoners and First Nations in landmark cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, including the Delgamuukw and Haida Nation cases.

Darlene Johnston earned a B.A. from Queen’s University, and an LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Toronto. In 2008, she was awarded the designation of Indigenous People’s Counsel from the Indigenous Bar Association of Canada, (IBA). Prior to accepting her appointment at the Allard School of Law, Professor Johnston was an Associate Professor and Aboriginal Student Advisor at University of Toronto. Her teaching areas include Indigenous Legal Traditions, Canadian Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, and Law & Colonialism.

Daniel Johnstone is the Faculty & Communications Assistant at the Allard School of Law.

Dr. Craig Jones is the Associate Director of the Housing Research Collaborative (HRC) and the Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) project. Craig received his PhD from UBC’s Department of Geography. Through the HRC, Craig supports research on rental housing, evictions, land use and redevelopment. The HART project develops standardized, replicable and equity-focused tools, along with associated public information and training, to improve the quality of housing supply decision-making at all levels of government across Canada.

Professor Kaushal joined the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia in July 2016. She works in the fields of immigration and citizenship law, public law, and legal theory, and has published in all of these fields. 

Professor Hoi Kong is a full professor and the inaugural holder of The Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law, which he assumed in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (2024-2027), a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Program on Constitutional Studies, a Peter Wall Scholar (2020-2021) and Visiting Professor at the Cornell Law School. He researches and teaches in the areas of constitutional, administrative, municipal and comparative law, and constitutional and public law theory.

Robert is the Digital Communications Manager.