Graduate Student Directory

Kirtika Kattel is a PhD student at Peter A. Allard School of Law, whose research focuses on the study of structural human rights violations in South Asia, particularly, the practice of caste-based discrimination. Her research explores the intersection of law and society, the impact of culture and religion in law, and their implications for justice and equality in society. She holds an LLM (hons.) from the University of Melbourne and has over three years of experience working in various non-profit non-governmental organizations in Nepal.

Kirthana is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, specializing in comparative corporate law, corporate governance, and securities law. Her research explores the intersections of technology, sustainability, and global corporate governance practices. She has published on various issues related to the enforcement of shareholders’ rights and directors’ duties.

Lindsay Massara is a PhD student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research examines episodes of emergency and martial law from late nineteenth and early twentieth century British colonial India. Constructing a genealogy or history of the present, Lindsay positions emergency as a lens through which to magnify important relationships and enduring dependencies in common law between race, property logics, and a rule of law.

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.

Reina R Nadler is a doctoral candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her dissertation research evaluates the uptake of neuroscientific knowledge and techniques into legal processes and institutions, with special attention to the implications of this neuro-technocratic turn for the democratic character of society. Reina’s studies have been supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and by the Donald N. Byers Memorial Prize for Killam Doctoral Scholars. She has recently acquired an additional specialization in the intersection of neuroethics and trans studies.

Vitus is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, and an Allard Scholar Graduate Fellowship Awardee. His research interests are Comparative constitutional law, Constitutionalism, Natural resources governance and sustainability, and Global governance and transnational law. His doctoral research examines the efficiency of parliamentary oversight over natural resource contracts in sub-Saharan Africa within the context of the theories of good governance and institutionalism. 

Ryan Peterson is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His current reserch centers upon the phenomenological experience of law. His work examines the experiences of legal authorities and how such experiences structure law to the detrminemnt of marginalized populations. Ryan is a former Bar Association President from the state of Minnesota and a former lecturer at Iowa State Univeristy.

Bhoomika is a LLM (Research) student at Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. She received her B.A. LLB from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (2017-2022). She also worked as an Academic Writer for a year, honing her skills in legal research and writing. She has demonstrated proficiency in Methodologies in Law and Policies, Feminist Legal Studies, and Public Policy in Health Law, successfully completing the requisite curriculum in each area.