Peter A Allard School of Law

Staff & Faculty Directory

  • Hoi Kong

    Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law

    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.

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    • Centre for Asian Legal Studies
  • Jennifer Lau

    Career Advisor, Graduate Studies

    As Career Advisor, Graduate Studies, Jenn provides individualized career coaching for Allard’s graduate law students, including those who are internationally trained lawyers or international law school graduates who are completing the National Committee on Accreditation process. She is passionate about helping law students and new graduates transition to the professional workforce. Jenn holds a BA (’03) and an LLB (’08) from UBC and was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2010.

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    • Graduate Programs
  • Vannie Lau

    Research Associate, International Justice and Human Rights Clinic (IJHR Clinic)

    (On maternity leave until January 2023)

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    • International Justice and Human Rights Clinic
  • Liora Lazarus

    Professor

    Liora is a leading scholar at the interface between security, the rule of law, and fundamental rights. She came to the Peter A. Allard School of Law as Professor in Law in August 2020 after a long career at the University of Oxford. Her most recent post in Oxford was Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She remains a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and was recognized as Professor in Human Rights Law at Oxford in October 2020. Liora teaches Transnational Law, International Human Rights Law and Security, Criminal Justice and Human Rights.

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    • Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
  • Michelle LeBaron

    Professor of Law

    Professor Michelle LeBaron is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar on conflict transformation, arts, and resilience. Her current research is on two main areas: conflict across religious and worldview differences, and the role of arts in collective memory and commemoration processes and reconciliation. As a recipient of a Wallenberg Fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (2015-2018), Michelle collaborated with internationally-renowned visual artist Dr.

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  • Tamara Levy, K.C.

    Director, UBC Innocence Project

    Tamara Levy, KC is the co-founder and Director of the UBC Innocence Project at the Allard School of Law where she has taught as an Adjunct Professor and Lecturer since 2004.  She graduated from Osgoode Hall Law school in 1996, articled with the Ontario Ministry of Attorney General and then Peck and Tammen (now Peck and Co.) in Vancouver. She was called to the British Columbia bar in 1998. She has practised as both defence and crown counsel.

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  • Sarah Lewis

    Knowledge Communications Coordinator
    Housing Research Collaborative

    Sarah received her BA Honours in International Relations and Romance Studies from UBC and her MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics. Before joining UBC, Sarah worked in international development, focusing on supporting the implementation of rule of law and good governance donor-funded projects for USAID, U.S. Department of State, and the European Union Delegation. Sarah now coordinates communications for the Housing Research Collaborative at the Allard School of Law.

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  • Carol Liao

    Associate Professor & UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow
    Co-Director, UBC Centre for Climate Justice & Chair, Canada Climate Law Initiative

    Professor Carol Liao researches in the areas of corporate law, sustainability, climate governance and social justice. She is the Co-Director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice and Chair of the Canada Climate Law Initiative. She teaches Business Organizations, Contract Law and seminars in corporate law. Professor Liao is the recipient of the Influential Women in Business Award, BCBusiness Women of the Year Award, Canada's Clean50 Award, and was named as one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers.

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