Research Stories
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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
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Nov 25, 2019Temitope Onifade, Ph.D. Student
Could civic governance make up for some of the limitations of the law, as an enhanced vehicle for environmental regulation? This is the question Vanier Scholar Temitope Onifade is exploring in his doctoral research on a model for hybrid regulation.
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Jan 30, 2019Réforme du droit de la famille: Accès à la justice et diversité familiale
Plus de cinq ans après son entrée en vigueur et plus d’une décennie après le début des travaux de réforme, le Family Law Act (« FLA ») de la Colombie-Britannique est toujours perçu dans plusieurs juridictions comme une loi innovatrice et avant-gardiste. Bien que le FLA ait transformé plusieurs aspects du droit de la famille, ce projet se concentre sur deux aspects seulement : l’accès à la justice et le respect de la diversité familiale.
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Dec 10, 2018迫りつつある大地震に対する備えは十分できているか？
最近の著書 ”Law and Disaster: Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown in Japan” (1st edition, London: Routlegde, 2018) において、松井教授は、東日本大震災に対する日本の政府の対応を検討している。日本の法制度、耐震政策、インフラは、この震災に対する備えとして十分ではなく、日本の弱点が見事に明らかにされたという。この著書は、このような失敗を吟味し、これらから日本および諸外国がどのような教訓を学ぶべきかを考察している。
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Oct 15, 2018Welcome From the New Associate Dean Graduate
It is a pleasure to add my own words of welcome to the Graduate Research portal at Allard Law. Though this site we invite you to learn about the research of our current students and our alumni, and to join us in celebrating their achievements.
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Sep 25, 2018Research Portal Multilingual Series
An easy-to-miss but critical dimension of the transnational influence of scholarship emerging from Allard Law lies in its multilingual scope. Those that search for indicators of scholarly reach and impact only through English language databases or search engines might be unaware of the fact that scholars here are shaping law, and scholarship, in other places through publishing their work in languages other than English.
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Apr 30, 201822nd UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference
Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to participate in the 22nd UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference, to be held at the Peter A. Allard School of Law on May 10–11th, 2018. This conference will offer graduate students a unique interdisciplinary opportunity to engage with contemporary perspectives in law and other disciplines.
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Apr 19, 2018Access to Justice for Persons with HIV
Professor Isabel Grant’s research project examines the history of HIV nondisclosure prosecutions in Canada, and argues that these prosecutions result in the over-criminalization of people with HIV and the distortion of the law of sexual assault generally.
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Mar 12, 2018Inequality and the Marriage Wealth Gap
There has been relatively little scholarship that connects family law and wealth inequality, outside the context of division of property when relationships break down. Professor Aloni’s research is novel in this regard and will help spark important dialogue around the laws and policies governing families and the preservation of wealth.
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Jan 18, 2018Bridging the Gap Between Social Justice and Corporate Law
According to Professor Carol Liao, the next few decades will be a critical period of domestic and international corporate legal reform – businesses are adapting to changing consumer demands, and there is global pressure to increase sustainable practices.