Graduate Student Directory

Helen Tooze is writing her doctoral thesis at Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the juxtaposition between Canadian and European conventional regulation of the intermediation of complex financial products with a view to assessing each jurisdiction’s systemic risk-related regulation outside of the macroprudential framework.

Ijeamaka Anika is a Ph.D. student at Peter A. Allard School of Law, where she completed her LLM as a recipient of the Allard Scholar Graduate Fellowship. Ijeamaka comes to UBC from Nigeria, where she held a teaching position at the University of Nigeria Nsukka. Her research focuses on international and transnational criminal law.

Ijeamaka obtained her LLB (Hons) from Oxford Brookes University and an LLM in Public International Law from University College London.

Kaitlyn Cumming is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law investigating civil access to justice in British Columbia courts and tribunals. Her research engages the question of what an equitable approach to access to justice looks like in the context of social and institutional realities that often create wide disparities in bargaining power between parties in a legal dispute. Kaitlyn seeks to answer this question by taking a contextual, interdisciplinary and mixed methodology approach.

Tom is a masters student in the research based program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His research explores the impact of the United Nations Declration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on contemporary Canadian environmental assessment law and its relationship to Indigenous jurisdiction, with a focus on BC.

Maira Hassan is a doctoral candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her current research centres critical race feminism, investigating the challenges marginalized and racialized complainants might face in sexual assault law in Canada. She is a recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (SSHRC) and the Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF).

Melanie McPhail is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research investigates the regulation of innovative health technologies, including novel regulatory authorization and reimbursement approaches.