Cristie Ford

Assistant Professor

B.A. (Alberta); J.D. (Victoria); LL.M. (Columbia); JSD (Columbia)

Tel: 604.822.2711
Fax: 604.822.8108
E-mail: ford@law.ubc.ca
Office Location: Allard Hall, room 456

Profile

Cristie Ford joined UBC in 2005.  She conducts research on Canadian and comparative securities regulation, comparative administrative and public law, and regulatory theory and design.  Among her professional activities, she is on the Board of Directors and Chair of the Research & Education Committee of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ), and past Co-Director of UBC's National Centre for Business Law (NCBL).  Professor Ford joined UBC from Columbia Law School, where she pursued her graduate degrees and taught in a variety of capacities between 2000 and 2005. She was the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards during her time at Columbia, including a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and the title James Kent Scholar (for highest honours).  Professor Ford also practised securities, regulatory and administrative law for a number of years, at Guild Yule LLP in Vancouver and at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.

Recent Publications

Cristie Ford & David Hess, "Corporate Monitorships and New Governance Regulation: In Theory, in Practice, and in Context" __ Law & Policy __ (forthcoming 2011)

Cristie Ford, "Macro and Micro Effects on Responsive Financial Regulation" 44 UBC Law Review _ (forthcoming 2011)

Cristie Ford & Carol Liao, "Power Without Property, Still: Unger, Berle, and the Derivatives Revolution" 33 Seattle U. L. Rev. 889 (2010)

Cristie Ford, "New Governance in the Teeth of Human Frailty: Lessons from Financial Regulation" 2010 Wisc. L. Rev. 101 (2010)

Cristie Ford, "Principles-Based Securities Regulation in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis" 55 McGill L J 257 (2010)

Cristie Ford, “Smart enforcement: trends and innovations for monitoring, investigating and prosecuting corporate corruption,”  Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2009: Corruption and the Private Sector, Cambridge University Press

Cristie Ford, “Principles-Based Securities Regulation,” Research Study Commissioned by the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation (released January 12, 2009).

Cristie L. Ford & David Hess, “Can Corporate Monitorships Improve Corporate Compliance?” 34 J. Corp. L. 679 (2009)

Cristie L. Ford, “New Governance, Compliance, and Principles-Based Securities Regulation” (2008) 45:1 American Bus. L. J. 1.

David Hess & Cristie L. Ford, “Corporate Corruption and Reform Undertakings: A New Approach to an Old Problem” (2008) 41 Cornell Int’l L.J. 307 (2008) (PDF)

Cristie L. Ford, “Remedies: Dogs and Tails,” Administrative Law in Context. Ed. Lorne Sossin and Colleen Flood (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2007/2008)

Cristie L. Ford, “How Should We Teach Securities Regulation in a Fast-Moving World?”  (2008) 46:1 Canadian Bus. L. Rev. 28

Cristie L. Ford, “Toward a New Model for Securities Law Enforcement” (2005) 57 Admin. L. Rev. 757, selected for inclusion in The Securities Law Review 2006 as one of the top securities law articles of 2005.

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database