Peter A Allard School of Law

Staff & Faculty Directory

  • Karin Mickelson

    Associate Professor

    Karin Mickelson joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1991 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998. She has taught in the areas of international law, international environmental law, real property, environmental law and legal theory, and has supervised and co-supervised graduate students in a wide range of areas including international environmental law, international legal theory and international human rights. She has also served as the faculty advisor to UBC teams participating in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

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    • Centre for Law and the Environment
  • Kaila Mikkelsen

    Assistant Dean, Students

    ​​​​​​​Kaila Mikkelsen is the Assistant Dean, Students at the Allard School of Law.  Kaila believes that every student belongs at law school and that her role is to support all students in their journey. She provides academic and personal support to JD students, manages academic concessions, participates in Faculty committees and implements programs to support student success.

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    • Student Affairs Office
  • Evelyne Mugabe

    Administrative Assistant, HRC + HART

    Evelyne Mugabe received their Master of Arts in Political Science from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Services and Community Studies from Western Washington University, with a diverse background in community outreach, policy, and agreements analysis. 

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    • Administration
    • Allard School of Law
  • Stephanie Mui

    Assistant Dean, Career Services Office

    Stephanie Mui is the Assistant Dean, Career Services Office. She received her B.A. from the University of British Columbia and her J.D. from the Peter A. Allard School of Law. She is responsible for developing and managing career services opportunities for Allard law students and alumnae, and building and maintaining Allard’s legal, business, and non-profit network. She also provides career advising services to Allard law students and recent alumni.

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  • Neil Nunn

    SSRHC postdoctoral fellow, Allard School of Law (2022-2023)

    Neil is an environmental justice, law, and planning scholar whose research examines large-scale social and ecological disruption within British Columbia’s settler colonial era. Neil’s postdoctoral research is an exploration of the Fisheries Act in the context of the diitiida/the Jordan River Watershed on South Vancouver Island. diitiida/the Jordan River Watershed was once among the most abundant salmon-supporting ecosystems on southern Vancouver Island and the traditional territory of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht Nation.

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  • Debra Parkes

    Professor
    Chair in Feminist Legal Studies

    Professor Parkes joined the Allard School of Law in July 2016. She was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba from 2001 to 2016 where she served a term as Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 2013-2016. She has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Woollongong and the University of Sydney. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law from 2009-2013 and President of the Canadian Law & Society Association from 2007-2010.
     

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    • Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
  • Robert K. Paterson

    Professor Emeritus

    Robert K. Paterson was admitted to the Bars of New Zealand in 1969 and B.C. in 1981. Professor Paterson chaired the B.C. Task Force on International Commercial Arbitration (1986) and is co-author of International Trade and Investment Law in Canada (1994) and co-editor of UNCITRAL Model Law in Canada (1989). He is a panelist under Chapter 19 of the NAFTA (Trade Remedy Bi-national Review Panel). Apart from international trade law his major interest is cultural heritage and art law.

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