Faculty Profiles

Professor Wei Cui joined the law faculty at the University of British Columbia in 2013. His research and writing span a wide range of topics in tax law and policy, including international taxation, tax administration and compliance, tax and development, the value added tax, and tax and spending policies targeted at the labor market.

Published October 2023

Professor Adam Hofri teaches Trusts, Comparative and Offshore Trusts Law and Practice, and Legal Methodologies. Both Adam's research and teaching have long focused on trusts, including comparative doctrinal treatments of trust law topics and studies of many jurisdictions' recent dramatic reforms to their law of trusts.

Published July 2023

Dr. Marcus Moore teaches Sports Law, Contracts & Jurisprudence at Allard Law. His research interests include regulation & law reform, focusing on standard form contracts.

Published Spring 2022

Professor Johnny Mack is from the Toquaht Nation (Nuu-chah-nulth) and researches on Indigenous legal traditions in settler state contexts and the intersection of Indigenous law and economic development.

Published Spring 2021

Professor Kristen Thomasen is a leading Canadian expert in robotics law and policy, specializing in drone regulation and the privacy impacts of robotic technologies. She teaches Robotics Law & Policy and Tort Law.

Published Winter 2021

Dr. Li-Wen Lin is an Assistant Professor at the Allard School of Law, where her research and teaching interests focus on comparative corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and empirical analysis of law. Dr. Lin’s research has been profiled in international news media such as the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and Radio Free Asia. She is an invited researcher at CRETA of National Taiwan University. Prior to entering academia, Professor Lin was a consultant at a Forbes Global 2000 company.

Published Fall 2020

Professor Joseph Weiler created the first academic courses in Canada in sports law, media and entertainment law, the law and economic development, the law of cyberspace and the law of the Olympic Games. He has taken great joy in supporting and mentoring his students, having supervised hundreds of students in directed studies projects and graduate theses. He is Founding Co-Director of the Anti-Corruption Law Program, a collaborative effort in public education programming by the Allard School of Law at UBC, Transparency International (Canada Chapter) and the ICCLR and Criminal Justice Policy. He is the Vice-Chair of Transparency International Canada and will also continue his research and writing as a very active member of the UBC Emeritus College.

Published Summer 2020

Professor Ghebremusse specializes in mining governance, law and development, and African legal studies and human rights. A rising star in her field, she believes the law’s transformative potential can work in the fight against global poverty. 

Published Spring 2020

After years of practicing corporate finance and Aboriginal law, as well as undertaking a role as a senior policy official, Dr. Alexandra Flynn found her passion in research and teaching, first as an assistant professor in the City Studies program at the University of Toronto (Scarborough) and now as an assistant professor at the Allard School of Law.

Published Spring 2020

Dr. Biuković is a Professor in the Allard School of Law. She teaches Contract Law, European Union Law, and International Trade Law. Her research interests are in the areas of international economic law and European Union integration. She publishes regularly on topics of legal transplantation of international norms and standards by national governments, the impact of regionalism on multilateral trade negotiations, mega-regional trade and investment agreements, and the development of European Union.

Published Fall 2019

Dr. Stepan Wood is a Professor at the Allard School of Law, where his research relates to corporate social responsibility, sustainability, globalization, transnational governance, voluntary standards, climate change, and environmental law. He leads the interdisciplinary Transnational Business Governance Interactions (TBGI) project, an international research network that examines the drivers, dynamics, and impacts of competition, cooperation, coordination, and conflict among transnational initiatives to regulate global business.

Published Spring 2018

Dr. Camden Hutchison recently joined the Allard School of Law as an Assistant Professor. His research and teaching focus on corporate transactions, comparative corporate governance, and legal history. Dr. Hutchison earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where his dissertation examined the history of corporate regulation in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Before returning to graduate school, he practiced as a corporate associate at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Published Fall 2017

Dr. Carol Liao recently joined the Allard School of Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Dr. Liao specializes in business law, corporate governance, economic analysis of law, and the emerging field of social enterprise law. She earned a Ph.D./S.J.D. from the University of Toronto and UBC (Joint Program). Prior to her graduate studies, Dr. Liao was a senior associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Shearman & Sterling LLP (New York).

Published Summer 2017

Dr. Cristie Ford is Associate Professor at the Allard School of Law and Director of the Centre for Business Law. Her research interests include regulatory theory, securities regulation, and administrative law. Dr. Ford practiced in New York for six years prior to coming to Allard Law.

Published Fall 2016

Pitman Potter is Professor of Law and Director of Chinese Legal Studies at the Allard School of Law. His teaching and research focus on PRC and Taiwan law and policy in the areas of foreign trade and investment, dispute resolution, property law, contracts, business regulation, and human rights.