Graduate Students

Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick is a PhD Candidate in Law at UBC, where she also completed her LLM. Previously, she articled at a criminal defence firm in Vancouver. Her current doctoral research examines various records produced by and inside courts and prisons, pertaining to two women’s experiences of incarceration within these systems, and focusing upon institutional responses to such impacts. She published a book analyzing the sentencing of Indigenous women, in terms of how judicial understandings of intersections among victimization, criminalization, and ongoing processes of colonization influence their reasoning. 

Grace is the Founder and Student Director of the UBC Climate Hub. She is a PhD Candidate in Law at UBC studying how to use law to protect climate change science from manufactured doubt. She is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar and a Killam doctoral scholar, and a past Canada-U.S. Fulbright recipient. She holds a B.A. from Rice University, a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M from the University of British Columbia. Grace has written and published three novels in a hopeful climate fantasy series, the Ava of the Gaia trilogy.

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. 

Maira Hassan is pursuing a PhD in Law at Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, where she also completed her LLM as a recipient of the Allard Scholar Graduate Fellowship. She obtained her LLB (Hons) from Queen Mary University of London and completed her undergraduate degree in Media, Information and Technoculture (MIT) and French literature from the University of Western Ontario. Her previous research work and publications include topics such as women in international policing, women in Canadian peacekeeping, and legal perspectives on extraterritorial policing.

Moira Aikenhead is a PhD Candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, where she also completed her LLM. She obtained her JD from the University of Victoria, and subsequently practiced Labour and Employment law at a large regional firm in Downtown Vancouver. Her research is centred on the intersection of digital technologies and gender violence in Canadian criminal law. She has published on topics including the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, voyeurism, and privacy expectations in relation to sexual violence.  

Oludolapo Makinde is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia (UBC), conducting research at the intersection of corporate governance, artificial intelligence and anti-corruption law. She also obtained her LLM degree from UBC and her LLB (Hons) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to pursuing graduate studies, she functioned as a Legal Associate at a leading law firm in Nigeria, providing corporate governance advisory services to the firm’s clients.