Peter A Allard School of Law

Graduate Student Directory

The directory below lists some of our graduate students from our graduate programs.

  • Ijeamaka Anika

    PhD Student

    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.

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  • Ahmed Ragib Chowdhury

    LLM (Research)

    Ahmed Ragib is a masters student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His research focuses on the correlation of the constitutional status of the right to health and pandemic response performance of countries to argue for the judicial recognition of the right to health. He is also a cinephile and an avid fan of Arsenal Footbal Club.

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  • Sopuruchi Christian

    PhD Student

    Sopuruchi is experienced in peacebuilding, conflict resolution and community organizing. His current research at the Peter Allard Law School is located at the intersection of sustainable development, international environmental law, natural resources law, and dispute resolution. Sopuruchi has over 5 years of teaching experience in reputable universities in Africa and Asia.

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  • Sofia Cornejo

    PhD Student

    Sofia Cornejo is a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law (UBC). Her research focuses on domestic violence leave and other employment law mechanisms addressing domestic violence as a world of work issue. Through a comparative analysis, Sofia critically examines how laws conceptualize domestic violence as a workplace issue and the implications for diverse groups of women. 

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  • Kaitlyn Cumming

    PhD Student

    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.

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  • Tom Gilmour

    LLM Student

    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.

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  • Jessie Gomberg

    PhD Student

    Jessie Gomberg is a PhD student at Allard Law working under the supervision of Dr. Cristie Ford. Jessie’s PhD research focuses on professional regulation of lawyers in Canada. She takes a critical view of the disciplinary systems regulating lawyers whose conduct is considered “unbecoming” due to alcohol and drug addiction. Jessie’s research performs a critical analysis of contemporary lawyer discipline employing feminist legal theory and proposing alternative dispute resolution to advocate for discipline reform.

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  • Maira Hassan

    PhD Student

    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).

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  • Haley Hrymak

    PhD Student

    Haley Hrymak is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law (UBC). Her PhD focuses on the experiences of survivors of family violence within family law proceedings. In 2018, she graduated from UBC with her Master of Laws. She also holds a BA from Brandon University, a JD from the University of Manitoba, and was called to the bar in 2015. 

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  • Oludolapo Makinde

    Phd Student

    Oludolapo Makinde is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and a Liu Scholar at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Her research investigates the practicability of adopting an integrated approach which fuses corporate governance and corporate social responsibility measures with artificial intelligence tools to effectively tackle corruption involving Canadian multinationals doing business in the Global South. 

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