Peter A Allard School of Law
Research Stories
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Jul 23, 2020Graduate Student Profile: Siobhan Yorgun
A PhD candidate at Allard Law, Siobhan Yorgun is looking to unmask a bias in the way refugee law is studied. In her doctoral dissertation, she illustrates the impact of this bias in creating a distorted knowledge of refugee law.
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Jul 7, 2020Rethinking Judicial Oversight in a Time of Crisis
Administrative accountability demands resilient courts, especially in emergencies.
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Jun 23, 2020Research Profile: Sara Ghebremusse
Professor Sara Ghebremusse frequently conducts research at the intersection of transnational law and mining governance, particularly within Africa.
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Jun 22, 2020Research Profile: Gideon Odionu
Gideon Odionu is a PhD student at Allard Law. He is both a 2020 UBC Sustainability Scholar and a UBC Sustainability Ambassador. Through the UBC Sustainability Initiative, he is currently working on a funded internship project at the BC Housing Research Center.
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May 18, 2020The Law of Disaster Exceptionalism
Professor Jocelyn Stacey’s research investigates how Canadian law perpetuates disaster exceptionalism, a dangerous idea that disasters are temporary, exceptional and disconnected events.
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May 8, 2020Bordering the Pandemic: COVID-19 and Immigration Law in Canada
Canada’s legal response to the pandemic has now reached well beyond immigration law, but its origins in immigration law sheds light on the multivalent nature of borders in pandemic control.
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May 8, 2020There’s a New Boss in Town: Vavilov and Municipalities
In the curious time of COVID-19, Canadian municipalities have leveled the virus’ spread by enforcing distancing rules, fining non-compliant businesses, and maintaining garbage collection, among other mundane tasks.
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May 8, 2020Bell Is the Tell I’m Thinking Of
Without a doubt, Vavilov is the ‘sexier’ case in the recent Supreme Court administrative law trilogy. It has everything that Canadian readers of law could hope for: espionage, intrigue, injustice, and a feisty disagreement about the standard of review.
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May 8, 2020Vavilov, Rule of Law Pluralism, and What Really Matters
Vavilov is an important decision, and one that we can be optimistic about. The discussion around it has also been a glorious coming-together of administrative law nerddom in Canada. But let us remember: Administrative Law belongs to the people.
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Mar 16, 2020Corporate Law and Sustainability in a Post-pandemic Era
The business sector is no stranger to facing disruptive and destabilizing events in the 21st century. However, Professor Carol Liao points out that in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic our world is going to be redefined as the time before and the time after.
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Feb 24, 2020Law Fit for a Heating Planet?
Why are we in this planetary mess? How did we end up with the fragmented, partial, and challenging-to-enforce forms of environmental law that we have? And why are environmental protection imperatives still so marginalized from law’s core preoccupations? Professor Natasha Affolder does not shy away from asking tough questions.
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Jan 23, 2020Legal Research, Innovation and the Changing Profession
Innovation undermines our assumptions – it erodes jurisdictional boundaries, it introduces a high level of uncertainty, and it often proceeds at great speeds, which is not something that our legal institutions are well equipped to manage