Staff & Faculty Directory

Morika received her B.A. in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the University of British Columbia and her M.S. in Urban Planning and Policy Design from Politecnico di Milano. She has experience with stakeholder engagement, concept design, policy analysis and visual communication. Morika’s research interests in urban planning and policy analysis include ageing in place through the continuum of care, the spatial dimensions of decolonial planning and decolonial protests, and media representations of intersectional marginalization in the urban landscape.

Janice is an Administrative Assistant at Allard Law.

Dr. Lachlan Deyong is a passionate business law scholar, with a specialization in torts, insurance, conflicts, access to justice, law and technology,  and legal pedagogy. He is an experienced teacher, having taught at Allard Hall in 2017-2019, and at Queen’s Law in 2021. He was a visiting academic at Oxford’s Keble College in 2020. He is a keen access to justice advocate, creator and innovator, and was Director at the Better Justice Lab from 2020 to 2022, as well as being a postdoctoral fellow at the Cyberjustice Laboratory at Universite de Montreal.

David G. Duff is Professor of Law and Director of the Tax LLM program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and writes in the areas of areas of tax law and policy, corporate and international taxation, environmental taxation and distributive justice. 

Elizabeth Edinger joined the Allard School of Law in 1978 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986. Professor Edinger served as Associate Dean from 1988-1992 and from 1997-2003. Her teaching areas include Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Laws and Creditors Remedies.She has published in each of these areas. 

Professor Elliot joined the Allard School of Law as Assistant Professor in 1976, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983 and to Professor in 1991. He has twice served as an Associate Dean, first as Associate Dean, Student Affairs from 1991-93 and subsequently as Associate Dean, Administration and Finance from 2003-06. He served as the Director of Legal Research for the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution (Fraser Committee) from 1983-85, and as the Executive Legal Officer of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1995-97.

Julen Etxabe is Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights and joined Allard Law as Assistant Professor in July of 2019. His current research combines legal and literary theory to identify a new model of dialogical judgment emerging in the area of human rights, which is transforming inherited notions of reasoning, rights, authority, and law in the post-national and diverse societies of the 21st century.

Rosanna is the Executive Assistant to Dean.