Research Faculty Directory
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Alexandra Flynn
Associate Professor
- Phone: 604 822 6810
- Email: flynn@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileProfessor Alexandra Flynn’s teaching and research focus on municipal law and governance, administrative law, property law, and experiential education. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, public reports, media articles, and a book on how cities are legally understood in law and how they govern, including the overlapping geographies and governance of city spaces, and the formal and informal bodies that represent residents.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Centre for Law and the Environment
- Indigenous Legal Studies
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Cristie Ford
Professor
- Phone: 604 827 0280
- Email: ford@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileDr. 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.
- Centre for Business Law
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Mark Gervin
Lecturer
Legal Services Director - Indigenous Community Legal Clinic- Email: gervin@allard.ubc.ca
Mark is an alumnus of the Allard School of Law; he articled with Glenn Orris, QC and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2000. A criminal defence lawyer, Mark has worked on and continues to work on murder trials across the province of British Columbia, in addition to many other criminal law offences.View Profile- Indigenous Community Legal Clinic
- Indigenous Legal Studies
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Toby Goldbach
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 604 827 1891
- Email: goldbach@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileToby 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.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Benjamin Goold
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 9255
- Email: goold@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileDr Benjamin Goold is a Professor at the Allard School of Law. He holds degrees in law and economics from the University of Tasmania, as well as a BCL and doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His major research interests include privacy rights, the use of surveillance technologies by the police and intelligence communities, and the governance of international borders.
- Centre for Asian Legal Studies
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Sara Gordon
Associate Professor
- Email: gordon@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileSara Gordon is an Associate Professor at the Allard School of Law. Her current research focuses on the ways in which psychology and mental health intersect with the criminal justice system and the many barriers faced by people with mental illness involved in that system. At Allard, Professor Gordon teaches Criminal Law, Evidence Law, Mental Health Law, and a seminar in Law and Psychology.
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Isabel Grant
Professor
- Phone: 604 822 3140
- Email: grant@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileProfessor Isabel Grant's main research interests lie in the areas of criminal law. She is particularly interested in the law and policy issues surrounding violence against women, sexual assault, homicide, and HIV non- disclosure. She is currently working on two SSHRC-funded projects: one on sexual assault across the lifespan and one examining sentencing for the crime of murder. She teaches in the areas of criminal law, homicide, sentencing and mental health law.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Aishani Gupta
Research Associate, International Justice and Human Rights Clinic (IJHR Clinic)
- Email: gupta@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileAishani Gupta is the current Research Associate at the IJHR Clinic. She completed her LL.B with honours in India, and holds two masters degrees in international law from New York University and the European University Institute. Throughout her career, she has researched and worked in human rights law for which she has used comparative and international law perspectives. Her work has consistently dealt with using law as a tool for social change and finding ways to understand how theoretical frameworks bear on the real world.
- International Justice and Human Rights Clinic
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Douglas Harris
Professor and Nathan T. Nemetz Chair in Legal History
- Phone: 604 822 1991
- Email: harris@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileDouglas Harris joined the Allard School of Law in 2001. He teaches and writes in the areas of property law and legal history. His earlier published work focussed on the regulation of Indigenous fisheries in British Columbia, and he is the author of two award-winning books Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia (U of T Press) and Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925 (UBC Press).
- Centre for Law and the Environment
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Nikos Harris, KC
Associate Professor of Teaching
- Phone: 604 827 5340
- Email: nharris@allard.ubc.ca
View ProfileNikos Harris is an award-winning professor who also has extensive experience as appellate counsel. He has authored numerous articles on issues in criminal law and evidence, and his writing has been cited in a number of trial and appellate judgments. Nikos has served as a guest speaker for a number of organizations including Continuing Legal Education, the Trial Lawyers Association, and Crown Counsel of British Columbia. He is also is an advocacy advisor for the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute which assists counsel in preparing submissions for the Supreme Court of Canada.