Peter A Allard School of Law
Research Stories
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Aug 4, 2015Canadian Securities Regulation
Professor Cristie Ford talks about new and challenging ideas for securities regulation including high frequency trading, dark pools and crowd funding.
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Jul 21, 2015The Tools of Truth
Professor Bruce MacDougall’s current research investigates three important and related legal doctrines: estoppel, misrepresentation and mistake. His work makes a distinct and distinctly Canadian contribution to these areas of law.
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Jun 25, 2015Refugees and Political Opinion
Professor Dauvergne argues that one of the toughest things to figure out is whether or not somebody is being persecuted because of their political opinion when they are actually not overtly engaged in a political struggle.
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Jun 25, 2015Taxation of State-Owned Enterprises
Why do countries bother taxing state-owned enterprises (SOEs)? Professor Wei Cui now has a theory which stands in contrast with many long-standing views.
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Jun 25, 2015Shining Light on Global Supply Chains
As Canada Research Chair in Global Economic Governance, Assistant Professor Galit Sarfaty studies the convergence of economic globalization with public law values such as human rights.
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Jun 25, 2015Autonomous Motherhood?
From a feminist perspective, our legal system needs to find some way to acknowledge that for many reasons, some women are choosing to be single mothers.
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Jun 25, 2015Analytic Frameworks in Administrative Law
Professor Mary Liston argues that if working optimally, analytic frameworks can guide legal thinking so that interpretive and value choices can be more consciously made, more transparent, and better reasoned.
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Jun 25, 2015Law and Human Rights in the Global South
From June 8-10, 2015, the Peter A. Allard School of Law was the site of a unique Junior Scholar Workshop on Human Rights. Among the Workshop’s aims was the goal of better incorporating non-Western perspectives in scholarly and activist discourses and research agendas about human rights.
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Jun 24, 2015Welcome to Research Portal
Research Portal celebrates the research projects done at the Allard School of Law at UBC and the faculty researchers who make them happen.