Cristie Ford

Assistant Professor

B.A. (Alberta); LL.B. (Victoria); LL.M. (Columbia); JSD (in progress, Columbia)

Tel: 604.822.2711
Fax: 604.822.8108
E-mail: ford@law.ubc.ca
Office Location: West Mall Swing Space Building (WMSS): 2175 West Mall #205-J

Profile

Cristie Ford is an Assistant Professor and immediate past Co-Director of the National Centre for Business Law.  She joined UBC in 2005 from Columbia University, where she pursued her graduate degrees and taught in the law school in a variety of capacities between 2000 and 2005. She was the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards during her time at Columbia Law School, where she also obtained an LLM in 2000, including BC Law Foundation and MacKenzie King Graduate Fellowships, a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, a Columbia University Public Policy Consortium Fellowship, and the title James Kent Scholar (for highest honours). She also practised law for six years, at Guild, Yule and Company in Vancouver, and at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Her academic interests include comparative administrative and public law, securities regulation, corporate governance, and the legal theory surrounding public decision-making.

Recent Publications

• Cristie Ford, "New Governance in the Teeth of Human Frailty: Lessons from Financial Regulation" _ Wisconsin Law Review _ (forthcoming 2010)
• Cristie Ford, "Principles-Based Securities Regulation in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis" 55 McGill Law Journal _ (forthcoming 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 (forthcoming 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