Peter A Allard School of Law

Faculty Affiliates

The Peter A. Allard School of Law hosts a vibrant community of feminist legal scholars who research diverse topics across a wide breadth of the law. Their research explores issues centred on race, sexual orientation, class, and disability. Many faculty members are also involved in research related to litigation, law reform, judicial education, media and public education, as well as academic publication.

Please contact any of the feminist faculty members below for further information on how to become involved in these projects. You can also contact the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies.


Remembering Marlee G. Kline

CFLS Marlee Kline

The faculty lost a great feminist scholar and colleague when Marlee G. Kline passed away in November 2001. Her work is remembered by the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies through its annual Marlee G. Kline Essay Prize and the annual Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice.

A collection of her books is now housed in the Centre's library and are available to be borrowed.

  • Toby Goldbach

    Assistant Professor

    Toby Goldbach joined Peter A. Allard School of Law in 2017 following a two-year teaching fellowship at Cornell University Law School. Dr. Goldbach was a UBC Green College Leading Scholar (2018-2020) and is co-chair of the Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Innovations in Judging. 

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  • Isabel Grant

    Professor

    Isabel Grant is a Professor at the Allard School of Law specializing in criminal law. She has published extensively on violence against women including on sexual assault, criminal harassment and homicide. She is currently working on an SSHRC-funded project on the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on sexual assault law with Professor Janine Benedet. She teaches in the areas of criminal law, homicide, sentencing and mental health law.

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  • Bethany Hastie

    Associate Professor

    Bethany Hastie is an Associate Professor at the Peter A Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. Her research examines issues attending precarious labour in the intersecting spaces of labour and employment, migration, and human rights law, with a focus on migrant labour, domestic work, labour exploitation, gender and work, and employment discrimination. 

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  • Andrea Hilland, KC

    Assistant Professor

    Professor Hilland's research compares Indigenous and colonial laws to challenge discriminatory theories of colonial supremacy and Indigenous inferiority that have been upheld and perpetuated through the contemporary colonial legal system.

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    • Centre for Law and the Environment
    • Indigenous Legal Studies
  • Asha Kaushal

    Associate Professor

    Professor Kaushal joined the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia in July 2016. She works in the fields of immigration and citizenship law, public law, and legal theory, and has published in all of these fields. 

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  • Liora Lazarus

    Professor

    Liora is a leading scholar at the interface between security, the rule of law, and fundamental rights. She came to the Peter A. Allard School of Law as Professor in Law in August 2020 after a long career at the University of Oxford. Her most recent post in Oxford was Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She remains a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and was recognized as Professor in Human Rights Law at Oxford in October 2020. Liora teaches Transnational Law, International Human Rights Law and Security, Criminal Justice and Human Rights.

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  • Michelle LeBaron

    Professor of Law

    Professor Michelle LeBaron is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar on conflict transformation, arts, and resilience. Her current research is on two main areas: conflict across religious and worldview differences, and the role of arts in collective memory and commemoration processes and reconciliation. As a recipient of a Wallenberg Fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (2015-2018), Michelle collaborated with internationally-renowned visual artist Dr.

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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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    • Centre for Asian Legal Studies
    • Centre for Business Law
    • Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
    • Centre for Law and the Environment
  • Mary Liston

    Associate Professor

    Mary Liston is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She teaches public law including administrative and constitutional law, legal theory, and law and literature. Her research focuses on public law broadly and administrative law in particular. It also lies at the intersection of constitutional law, legal theory, and democratic theory.

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    • Indigenous Legal Studies
  • Debra Parkes

    Professor
    Chair in Feminist Legal Studies

    Professor Parkes joined the Allard School of Law in July 2016. She was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba from 2001 to 2016 where she served a term as Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 2013-2016. She has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Woollongong and the University of Sydney. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law from 2009-2013 and President of the Canadian Law & Society Association from 2007-2010.
     

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