Graduate Student Directory

Nafiz Ahmed is a doctoral student at the  Peter A. Allard School of Law and a senior lecturer (on leave) at North South University, Bangladesh. He reads and writes about legal philosophy and public law theory. His work has been published in reputed academic outlets, including Public Law, Routledge, and Washington University Jurisprudence Review. Nafiz completed his Master of Law (LL.M.) degree from the University of Cambridge and his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from North South University.

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.

Clare C. Benton is a master’s student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law under the supervision of Dr. Carol Liao. Clare’s research focuses on the issue of gender-based bullying, harassment and discrimination within the legal profession and how professional regulation could be used to effectively address gender-based misconduct. Clare has practiced litigation since her call to the bar in 2011 and is currently a non-practicing member of the Law Society of British Columbia. 

Kaitlyn Blaser 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.

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.

Christian Sopuruchi is a doctoral student at the Peter Allard School of Law and an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School Haryana India.  His current doctoral research focuses on the intricate and layered subject of environmental dispute management in the West African states bordering the Lake Chad Basin.

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. 

Jack Crompton is currently serving as Mayor of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW). He has deep roots in Whistler and is passionate about the future of his community. His grandparents were original shareholders in the Garibaldi Lift Company and the Cromptons have enjoyed their time in Whistler business and community organizations, since then.
 

Ulziilkham Enkhbaatar is a PhD student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, and in her current doctoral dissertation, she examines the impact of Community Development Agreements (CDAs) on local communities in the vicinity of the large-scale mining projects in Mongolia. She explores this issue from the critical perspective of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and the institutional approach of the Law and Development (L&D) subfield.

Jacqueline Hope Fitzpatrick is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Jacqueline’s research interests surround sustainable corporate governance and accountability.