Dr. Obijiofor Aginam teaches law at Carleton University. Dr. Aginam has recently published Between Isolationalism and Mutual Vulnerability: A South-North Perspective on Global Governance of Epidemics in an Age of Globilization in the Temple Law Review < http://www.temple.edu/iilpp/Docs/Aginam,%20Final%20to%20Publisher,%2011-23-04.pdf >

Transform Aqorau - Following completion of the UBC LLM degree in the class of 1989/90 under the supervision of Professor Ian Townsend-Gault, Transform Aqorau did a Phd in Law at the University of Wollongong in Australia entitled, "The Responses of the Pacific Island States to the Fisheries Provisions of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea". Dr. Aqorau is now working as Legal Counsel of a regional fisheries organisation based in Honiara, Solomon Islands, the Forum Fisheries Agency.

Susan Baas is currently working as an inhouse lawyer at Contact Energy Limited, an electricity and gas company in Wellington, New Zealand.  Contact: Susan Baas,  Legal Counsel, Contact Energy Limited, http://energy.co.nz

Roy Baker is Project Director, National Defamation Research Project, Communications Law Centre, University of New South Wales

Paula Barrios is working on a Ph.D. in International Environmental Law at the University of British Columbia, following completion of her LL.M. thesis entitled "The Rotterdam Convention on Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides: A Meaningful Step Towards Environmental Protection?" (2003). She holds a law degree from the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and has experience working at the International Affairs Office of the Ministry of Environment of Colombia.

Barry Barton is Professor of Law at the University of Waikato

Carolin Bayer - After finishing the LL.M. program in November 2001 Ms. Bayer
began the German Referendariat in Mainz, Germany. This program lasts for two
years. After completion in November 2003 she registered as a lawyer, opening
her own office in Alzey in December, 2003.

Dr. Ljiljana Biukovic teaches law at the University of British Columbia.

Matteo Bonini-Baraldi, LL.M. at UBC in 2002, holds a PhD from the University of Bologna (2004).  He worked on the field of contractual unbalance and unconscionability, exploring new limitations of private autonomy in light of fairness in exchange. Other areas of interest include private law, private international law; discrimination law; family law and legal recognition of same-sex couples; EC law.  From 2002 to 2004 he was a researcher at Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands) were he worked as assistant-coordinator to the European Group of Experts on Combating Sexual Orientation Discrimination (see for more information http://www.emmeijers.nl/experts).

Gary Botting - Since graduating with his Ph.D. in law in May 2004, Gary Botting has published three books - two on extradition law and one on Chief Robert Smallboy. Extradition Between Canada and the United States (Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2005) - a legal history of extradition based on his dissertation - made the "Recommended Read" list of Online Review of Books  in August, 2005, where it remained for six months.  Canadian Extradition Law Practice (Toronto: Butterworths LexisNexis, 2005), a practice guide for lawyers and judges, is slated to be republished on the LexisNexis international web with links to every cited case.    Chief Smallboy: In Pursuit of Freedom  (Calgary: Fifth House, 2005) is a biography of the controversial chief as well as a history of the Cree people. Canabanadaman: The Collected Poems of Gary Botting , edited by T.M. Gagnon, is ready to go to press; and Butterworths LexisNexis has contracted to publish Wrongful Conviction in Canadian Law later in the year.   Gary was awarded UBC University Graduate Fellowships every year from 1999-2004, supplanted by SSHRC Fellowships in 2000-2002 and Paetzold Fellowships in 2002-04.  He received his LL.M. in1999 and his Ph.D. in 2004.  He is currently a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle.  Visit his website at www.garybotting.com .

Joan Brockman is a professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.

Lyndsay Campbell is working on a Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. She is
studying the regulation of speech in the early nineteenth century in
Canada and the United States, or really Nova Scotia and Massachusetts.
The project has a couple of faces, two of which are the emergence of the
law of libel and the state of "legal consciousness" around the right to
free speech, as then understood.

Sedfrey Candelaria obtained his Master of Laws, Public International Law, from
the University of British Columbia. He is a graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. He is presently the Associate Dean for Student Affairs of the Ateneo Law School and head of the Research and Linkages Office of the Philippine Judicial Academy. He has also assumed directorship of the Adhikain Para sa Karapatang Pambata of the Ateneo Human Rights Center (Child Rights Unit). Besides teaching at ASG and the law school, he also teaches at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

Mélanie Chartier - following completion of her LLM at UBC Mélanie Chartier has worked for the Federal Department of Justice where she is currently: Avocate / Counsel, Direction du droit autochtone / Aboriginal Law Directorate, Ministère de la Justice Canada / Department of Justice Canada, Bureau régional du Québec à Ottawa / Quebec Regional Office (Ottawa), 284, rue Wellington bureau TSA-6055 / 284 Wellington Street, Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0H8

Lori Charvat currently works in the area of workplace conflict resolution as a mediator and conflict program/system designer. She does this mediation/design work for UBC, through the Organizational Training and Development group in Human Resources and also works as an Equity Advisor in the UBC Equity Office, handling complaints of discrimination and harassment. Her focus is ADR/conflict resolution.

Graham Cook (LL.M., 2001) is a lawyer with the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Michael Crommelin is Zelman Cowen Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.

Emma Cunliffe teaches at the University of British Columbia.

Robert Diab is a graduate of the LL.B. (2001) and LL.M (2007) programs at UBC and currently teaches at Capilano University in North Vancouver. He also practices in the areas of criminal, administrative and constitutional law, and is the author of “Guantanamo North: Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada” (Fernwood Publishing, 2008): http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/

Jaye Ellis teaches in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.

Chinedu Ezetah is an Associate in the Capital Markets Department of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a New York Law firm, specializing in providing legal and structuring advice to financial institutions regarding a variety of structured finance products.

Michelle Gallant is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, where she teaches and researches in the fields of Tax, International Law (public/private/criminal), and Dispute Resolution.

John Fairlie teaches law in the Paralegal Program at Capilano College in North Vancouver.

Louise Falconer is currently employed by Oxfam, in their UK Poverty Programme, and has been seconded to a local authority in Scotland to work on regeneration (poverty) issues. The aim of this pilot project is to maximise the positive impact of regeneration policies, resources and practices on the lives of women and men, and, to imbed gender analysis into the community planning structure and decision making processes. Louise completed her LLB at UBC in 2002 with a thesis entitled "Colonies, Condoms and Corsets: Fertility Regulation in Australia and Canada". Prior to that, Louise worked as a litigation solicitor in Canberra.

Eileen Fegan graduated from the UBC LLM program in 1994 (working in the area of Feminist Legal Theory). Following teaching positions at Lancaster University, New College, Oxford and Cardiff Law School, she now teaches at Queen's University, Belfast. Widely published, Ms. Fegan was a visiting scholar at Harvard and Osgoode Hall Law Schools in 1999. She also played a central role in developing Women's Studies in An-najah University on the West Bank. She specialises in Gender and Law and Women's Human Rights and has recently been awarded a fellowship to spend a semester at Emory University as part of the 'Gender, Sexuality and the Family' International Exchange Programme from February 2004. There she will be completing a book project on Feminism, Law and the Power of Culture, drawing together her research in Canada, USA, Africa, the Palestinian Territories and Northern Ireland over the past ten years. http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/staff/efegan.html

Brooke Hall, LL.M., 2002 works for a major commercial law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques in the dispute resolution group (in the Sydney, Australia office).  The majority of my work is in telecommunications, pay television litigation.   Contact: Brooke Hall Carney, Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney, T +61 2 9296 2403; F +61 2 9296 3999; brooke.hallcarney@mallesons.com   www.mallesons.com

David A. Hannigan (class of 1997) was, until early 2009,  a Commissioner of Lexindo Consulting in Jakarta, Indonesia. David has had personal and commercial interests in Indonesia over the last 20 years. He has extensive professional legal experience that includes working with firms in Sydney and Jakarta. He has developed particular expertise relating to the complexities surrounding cross-border transactions and compliance issues for foreign investment companies in Indonesia. David was born in England but pursued his tertiary education abroad. He graduated from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1997 and completed his Master of Laws at the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1998. David recently suspended his  Ph.D candidature at the University of Sydney to focus on family and work commitments. He has contributed papers to numerous conferences and lectured at a variety of educational institutions. He is the owner and founder of etc - effective training courses - and lectures in Australian Business Law at Indonesian institutions associated with Monash University, Curtin University and Griffith University.  Distinctions: University Graduate Fellowship (UBC, 1997); Law Foundation Fellowship (UBC, 1998); Australian Post-graduate Award (University of Sydney, 2000-2003). Languages: English and Indonesian.  Can be contacted at davidahannigan@yahoo.com

Douglas Harris teaches law at the University of British Columbia.

Brenda Heelan Powell completed her LLM at UBC in 1999. She works in Calgary and has published widely in the environmental law area including (2000) 15:2 Envir. Law Centre News Brief 8; (2000) 9 J.E.L.P. 227; Encompass 26; 15:4 Envir. Law Centre News Brief 1; (2001) 16:1 Envir. Law Centre News Brief 11; (2001) 10 J.E.L.P. 283; Community Action on Industrial Facilities: Guide and Background Materials (Environmental Law Centre: Edmonton, 2002), Demystifying Forestry Law: An Alberta Analysis, 2nd ed. (Environmental Law Centre: Edmonton, 2003)

Sonia Harris-Short is lecturer in law at Durham University where she is a member of the Human Rights Centre.

Lin Huawei (LL.M. 1997) practices in the areas of foreign direct investment and international financing in relation to the People's Republic of China with the Paul Hastings firm.

Virtus Chitoo Igbokwe, PhD Dr. Igbokwe studied for his LL.B at the University of Benin, Nigeria and graduated at the top of his class. He worked for Shell Petroleum Development of Nigeria Limited, Eastern Division, Port Harcourt, first as an intern and later as an in-house attorney. Following completion of his LL.M at UBC, where he held a Law Foundation Fellowship, he completed his Ph.D. at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School. His research interests include: international commercial arbitration (particularly foreign investment arbitration), foreign investment in emerging markets, legal aspects of economic globalization, legal issues in third world economic development, oil and gas investment disputes, etc.

Jacqueline Myoko Jago graduated from UBC's LLM program in 1998. Since then she has worked mainly in social policy (specialising in Indigenous and multicultural affairs), with a lot of time off for travel and other business. She completed a graduate certificate in gender and migration at the International Women's University in Hanover Germany in 2000, was called to the bar in March 2001, spent three months in Burma in 2002, worked as the Equity and Diversity Specialist at Brisbane City Council (Australia), and is currently, Legal Officer, Monitoring and Support Unit, Crime and Misconduct Commission, Level 12, Terrica Place, Cnr Creek and Adelaide St Brisbane 4000, Queensland, Australia.
Profiling Jacqueline Myoko Jago: A committed spiritual practice
by Craig Jones, LL.B 1998 and UBC Law Alumni Board Member

Philip Joseph teaches in the Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Russell Jutlah is a competition law officer in the Mergers Branch of the federal Competition Bureau.

Fiona Kelly: teaches at the University of British Columbia.

Anne Kindt studied law at Hamburg University (Germany), Leiden University (the Netherlands) and Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg, France), she graduated from Hamburg University in May 2004. She subsequently obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 2004/2005. After completing her degree in Canada, she returned to Germany to start her 'Referendariat' (practical training) and to work on her PhD.
email: anne.kindt@web.de

Dean Knight joined the Faculty of Law of Victoria University, Wellington, as a lecturer in 2005, teaching in administrative law, local government & resource management, and criminal law. His University of British Columbia LL.M. was in the field of administrative law and public law estoppel. Dean is a co-author of the LexisNexis Local Government looseleaf text. http://www.law.vuw.ac.nz/vuw/content/person.cfm?school=law&id=739

Dean's blog is: http://laws179.blogspot.com/

Rosanne Kyle practices in the litigation department of Miller Thomson LLP, focusing on environmental and aboriginal law issues.
Rosanne has a number of years experience as a civil litigator in British Columbia and Ontario and has appeared in the British Columbia Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, as well as the Federal Court. She has acted as counsel on a number of aboriginal law matters, with a particular focus on environmental issues. She is also currently co-counsel on a complex litigation file involving environmental and constitutional issues relating to a contaminated site in B.C.
Prior to joining Miller Thomson, Rosanne was counsel in the Aboriginal Law section of the federal Department of Justice where she worked on, and had carriage of, a number of constitutional and aboriginal rights cases. Her experience working for the federal government, along with her Master of Laws work on aboriginal fishing rights issues, combine to give Rosanne an in-depth knowledge and understanding of aboriginal law issues in Canada.
Rosanne has published a number of articles on aboriginal law issues and is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, where she teaches a course on litigating aboriginal rights and title issues.
Outside the office, Rosanne enjoys hiking, kayaking and camping in and around beautiful British Columbia with her husband and two children.

Geoffrey Leane teaches in the Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Joanne Lee is currently completing her PhD in law at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, following graduation from the UBC LLM program in May 2001.

Jingrong Liu practices with the Wen Wu law firm in Beijing.

Vincent Lunny is working for the Crown as a public prosecutor in Glasgow ("Procurator Fiscal Depute") and spends most of his time in court doing jury trials. For relaxation he leads a very quiet life with plenty of
climbing and cycling.

Craig S. MacMillan - I was the first graduate (1998) from the Ph.D. program in Law. I maintained a part-time law practice providing advice in relation to police professional matters, administrative law and human rights until 2003. I continued to work with the RCMP, and was transferred to the Hate Crime Team (receiving
the International Association of Chiefs of Police Civil Rights Award in Law Enforcement for Education and Prevention for "exceptional innovation", professionalism, and effectiveness in the areas of education and prevention
in dealing with hate crime). I then transferred to the Pacific Region Training Centre as the Investigative Training Coordinator, and in 2001 became the Special Advisor to "E" Division Commercial Crime. In 2002, I received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal "in recognition of significant achievements and distinguished service to fellow citizens, the community and to Canada" based on violence in relationships training I developed for the RCMP, along with my contributions to police professionalism in relation to ethics instruction for police training facilities such as the Canadian Police College, Justice Institute of B.C., and Pacific Region Training Centre. In 2003, I was commissioned as an Inspector, and I was appointed as an Adjudicator for employment and labour related grievances in the RCMP. I have published a number of articles on
variety of legal issues, including hate crime, ethics, investigative practices, and police independence. In 2003, I co-wrote an introductory text on Ethical Reasoning in Policing, Corrections and Security, and recently co-developed the curriculum on Ethics for Police Leaders to be offered by Dalhousie University College of Continuing Education in the Fall of 2004.

Louis Marquis (Ph.D. 2000) served as Dean of the Faculty of Law, Université de Sherbrooke, from 2000 to 2004, and assumes duties as Vice-Principal of the University in February 2005. His scholarly interests are in the fields of ADR and international uniform commercial law, continuing from his Ph.D. dissertation on "Why Is There An International Uniform Commercial Law Rather Than Nothing?: A Post-Modern Manifesto"

Dr. Deirdre McCann (LLM 1996). Since graduating from UBC, Deirdre McCann has completed a DPhil in law at the University of Oxford. She works for the Conditions of Work and Employment Programme of the International Labour Office in Geneva, where she conducts research on the regulation of working conditions, including on working time, work/family balance and non-standard work. www.ilo.org/travail

June McCue teaches law at the University of British Columbia.

Jenni Millbank is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Faculty of Law.

Catherine Morris, LLM (2001), is a lawyer and conflict resolution consultant in Victoria.

Judith Mosoff teaches law at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Holger Müller is admitted to practice as an attorney at the Kammergericht (Court of Appeals) and Landgericht (Higher Regional Court) in Berlin. After completing his legal studies at the University of Heidelberg and Münster in Germany (1990-1994), he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1994/95. Subsequently, he gained broad experience in the field of international commercial law as a staff member of the law firm Lovells Boesebeck Droste in Düsseldorf and Berlin. more...
email: mueller@e-lawyer.de

Matthias Nussbaum practices law at the Munich office of Baker & McKenzie LLP. Previously, he worked at several international capacities such as in Toronto, Philadelphia and Barcelona. He pursued his legal studies at the University of Passau, Barcelona and Munich and graduated in 2001. Matthias was admitted to the German Bar in 2003. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 2005. Email: matthias.nussbaum@web.de

Dr. Chidi Oguamanam, was awarded his Ph.D. in law following completion of a thesis entitled "International Law, Plant Biodiversity and the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge: An Examination of Intellectual Property Rights in Relation to Traditional Medicine". Dr. Oguamanam is currently on a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) postdoctoral program at Dalhousie University.

Dr. Obiora Okafor teaches at Osgoode Hall Law School
New Book - Legitimizing Human Rights NGOs Lessons from Nigeria

Sundhya Pahuja teaches at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne.

Karen Pearlston teaches law at University of New Brunswick

Ian Ramage has joined O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, doing patent litigation from their offices at:  O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Embarcadero Center West, 275 Battery Street, Suite 2600, San Francisco, CA 94111, (415) 984-8783 (direct), (415) 984-8701 (fax)
iramage@omm.com

Peter Ramsay teaches law at the University of British Columbia.

Dr Sara Ramshaw (B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.) is a lecturer at Queen’s University in Belfast and obtained both her LLB and LLM from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She clerked at the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) in 1998-9 and was called to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2000. She then worked as a Research Lawyer at the Superior Court of Justice, Family Court in Ontario before commencing postgraduate studies at Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, England, where she was also employed as a Sessional Lecturer of the Law of Obligations I (Contract Law). Her doctoral thesis, completed in 2007, examined the legal regulation of jazz musicians in New York City (1940-1967) through the lens of poststructural theory informed by feminism, race theory and musicology. Sara is also a member of the Forum for Law and Philosophy and the QUB Gender Research Forum.

Lutz Riede. Following completion of his LL.M. in summer 2004, Lutz returned to Vienna to continue his studies at Vienna University (insert link: www.univie.ac.at). From 2004-2006, Lutz completed the Graduate Programme for Information Law (insert link: www.informationsrecht.at) and the PhD Programme of Vienna University. He also worked as Research Assistant at the Institute for European Law, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (www.lbi-europarecht.at) and the Austrian Institute for IT-Law. Currently he works at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (insert link: www.freshfields.com) in their IP/IT practice group. 
email: lutz.riede@gmail.com

Alex Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Law at Macquarie University

Annie Rochette teaches law at the University of British Columbia.

Dalee Sambo Dorough.  Since graduating (Nov '02), I have been active with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, serving as the Alaska Member of their Advisory Committee on UN Issues, paying particular attention to their important indigenous human rights standard setting work at the United Nations.  Recent papers presented include "Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Self-Determination:  The Need for Equality," International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development (New York: 2002).

Meherea San Roque teaches law at the University of New South Wales

Tracey Sandgathe, B.A, LL.B., LL.M., graduated from UBC's LL.M program in November, 2007.  She has practiced with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP since being admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2000.  Tracey currently practices as a legal research lawyer.  She has also practiced as a solicitor in the areas of corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on natural resources, energy and environmental matters.

Naomi Sidebotham is Senior Lecturer in Law at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.

Mark Stevenson, LL.M., 2005 practices law in Victoria and is a Law Commissioner for Canada http://www.lcc.gc.ca/about/commissioners-en.asp#stevenson

Mary Anne Waldron is Professor of Law at the Univeristy of Victoria and Vice President for Legal Affairs

Chao Wang is working on his Ph.D. in Law at the University of British Columbia, following completion of his LL.M.

Suzanne Wilkinson is currently with Thomas and Partners, Barristers and Solicitors, in Vancouver, Canada.  She specialises in investor-State claims; the law of state responsibility; the interpretation of international treaties and damages claims at international law.  She has worked on a number of NAFTA Chapter Eleven arbitrations as part of a team of external consultants for the Government of Mexico.  Suzanne completed her Master's thesis in 2002 on NAFTA's Chapter Eleven, which included a case study on Metalclad Corporation v. United Mexican States.  She has lectured at various universities and delivered conference papers on NAFTA's Chapter Eleven.  In 2002 she was invited by the Law Commission of Canada to contribute to a roundtable discussion on Canada's relationship between domestic governance and global governance.  In 2000 Suzanne was the Assistant Director of the Institute for Comparative and Internaitonal Law at Melbourne Law School.  She completed articles of clerkship with Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks (now Allens Arthur Robinson) in 2000, where she gained practice experience in commercial litigation, general corporate commercial law and energy, resources and infrastructure law.

Daniel Wyss graduated as the first graduate of UBC's M.Jur. programme in spring 2005 and is currently pursuing doctoral studies.

Jie Yang has returned home to Shenzhen to practice following completion of her LL.M.

Xusheng Yang earned his LL.M. degree in 1997. He subsequently obtained another LL.M. (NYU) and worked for over 5 years with Shearman & Sterling New York office and Allen & Overy Hong Kong office. in 2003 he joined the largest PRC law firm, King & Wood, as a partner. http://www.kingandwood.com/htm/content_en.asp?id=79

Gil Yaron is the Director of Research, Law and Policy for SHARE (The Shareholder Association for Research and Education - a national not-for-profit organization helping pension funds to build sound investment practices, to protect the interest of plan beneficiaries and to contribute to a just and healthy society).   A practicing lawyer in British Columbia since 1998, Gil has a Masters in Law from the  University of British Columbia (2000), a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa (1996), and a Bachelor of Arts and Science from McMaster University (1989). Gil has authored various publications on topics including trustee fiduciary duties, active trustee practices and pension plan investment policies, and shareholder activism in Canada. He is currently a member of the Ontario Securities Commission's Advisory Committee on Continuous Disclosure and an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law where he teaches a third-year seminar course on fiduciary duties. Gil is a co-founder and current board member of the Aurora Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to increasing the accountability of the corporation. www.share.ca 

Claire Young is an associate dean at the University of British Columbia