Peter A Allard School of Law

Our Faculty

Faculty affiliated with the Centre are leaders in their fields and publish widely in Canada and beyond.

  • Samuel Beswick

    Assistant Professor

    Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick is a private law scholar with primary research interests in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment, limitations, remedies, and privacy. His current research concerns the temporal scope of judicial changes in the law.

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  • Ljiljana Biuković

    Professor

    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.

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  • Wei Cui

    Professor

    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. His current research projects examine the design of international taxation in light of the evolution of international trade, and compare redistributive policies in democratic v. authoritarian countries.

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  • David Duff

    Professor

    David G. Duff is Professor of Law and Director of the Tax LLM program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and writes in the areas of areas of tax law and policy, corporate and international taxation, environmental taxation and distributive justice. 

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  • Cristie Ford

    Professor

    Dr. Cristie Ford’s research focuses on regulation and governance theory, securities and financial regulation, and administrative law. Recently she has expanded her work to include access to justice and governance of the legal profession.

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  • Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow

    Associate Professor

    Adam Hofri-Winogradow specializes in the law and practice of trusts, analysing them from both internal (doctrinal, comparative and practical) and external (empirical and critical) points of view. He also has interests in private law beyond trusts, in legal history and in corporate law. Having received his DPhil from Oxford in 2007 and taught for many years at the Hebrew University, Adam joined the Allard School of Law in January 2023. He has been a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners since 2008.

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  • Camden Hutchison

    Associate Professor

    Camden Hutchison is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and the Director of the Centre for Business Law. His research and teaching focus on corporate transactions, comparative corporate governance, and the historical development of corporate law. He has also published on corporate taxation and competition law. His current research focuses on corporate governance and contractual negotiation in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

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  • Carol Liao

    Associate Professor & UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow
    Chair, Canada Climate Law Initiative

    Professor Carol Liao researches in the areas of corporate law and sustainability, climate governance, gender and racial justice. She is the Chair of the Canada Climate Law Initiative, recipient of the Influential Women in Business Award, BCBusiness Women of the Year Award, Canada's Clean50 Award, and named as one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women. She teaches Business Organizations, Contract Law, and seminars in corporate law. The Director of the Centre for Business Law from 2019-2023, she is currently is on research sabbatical for the 2023-2024 year.

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  • Liwen Lin

    Associate Professor

    Professor Liwen Lin is an Associate Professor at the Allard School of Law. Her research and teaching interests include comparative corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, state capitalism, Chinese law, and law and economic sociology.

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  • Bruce MacDougall

    Professor

    Bruce MacDougall was called to the Bar of B.C. in 1990. Professor MacDougall joined the Allard School of Law as Assistant Professor in 1988. He was Associate Professor from 1996-2002. He has been Professor of Law since 2002. Professor MacDougall studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and served as Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for Mr. Justice Gerald Le Dain from 1986-87. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida, Gainesville in 1993, and Distinguished Research Fellow at King's College, London, in 2001.

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