Research Stories
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Jul 23, 2021Drones, bots and the law: Meet Assistant Professor Kristen Thomasen
Kristen Thomasen is one of Canada’s leading experts in robotics law and policy, specializing in drone regulation and the privacy impacts of robotic technologies and artificial intelligence. In January 2021, she joined the Allard Law community as an assistant professor.
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Feb 17, 2021Immigration Detention in the Age of COVID-19
Learn about Professor Efrat Arbel and PhD Candidate Molly Joeck’s burgeoning research on shifts in the legal regulation of Immigration Detention in response to COVID-19, and the unexpected progressive possibilities ushered in by the global pandemic.
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Feb 1, 2021New book examines China’s unique form of human rights activism
China has long been the target of human rights activists, but in his new book, Professor Pitman Potter makes the argument that China itself is a human rights activist.
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Dec 14, 2020Changing the locks on the Canada-US border
In a post-COVID world, research at Allard Law may help illuminate a once-unexamined Canada-US border. (Originally published in Trek Magazine. Image by Federico Gastaldi.)
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Dec 1, 2020From Domestication to Internationalization: Enforcing the International Bill of Rights in Hong Kong
Professor Cheng’s latest research project is a study of the main drivers for the internationalisation of human rights adjudication in Hong Kong and the approaches of the Hong Kong judiciary.
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Nov 4, 2020The Canadian Journal of Family Law is now available online
The Canadian Journal of Family Law, one of the first family law journals in Canada, is now available online to the public, free of charge. This is the only family law journal in Canada to move to full open-access and relatively free of copyright restrictions.