Nikos Harris

LECTURER

B.A. (SFU), LL.B. (UBC)

Tel: 604.827.5340
E-mail: nharris@law.ubc.ca
Office Location: Allard Hall, room 344

Profile

Nikos Harris is an award-winning lecturer who also has extensive experience as appellate counsel.  He has appeared as counsel in numerous cases before the British Columbia Court of Appeal and as co-counsel in several cases before the Supreme Court of Canada.  He has written a number of articles on issues in criminal law and evidence, and is a contributing author for one of Canada’s leading evidence texts, McWilliams’ Canadian Criminal Evidence. Professor Harris has served as a guest speaker for a number of organizations including Continuing Legal Education, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, and the B.C. Branch (Criminal Law) of the Canadian Bar Association.  Nikos served as a judicial clerk at the British Columbia Court of Appeal and was a Raymond Herbert Award recipient.

COURSES

• Criminal Law and Procedure
• Torts
• The Law of Evidence
• The Regulatory State

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Criminal Law and Procedure
• The Law of Evidence
• The Charter

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• “Evidence in Appellate Proceedings”, in McWilliams’ Canadian Criminal Evidence, Vol. 2, 4th ed. Aurora, Ontario: Canada Law Book, July, 2007.
• "Limiting Instructions: Preventing Wrongful Convictions or Causing Juror Confusion?" (2004) 20 Criminal Reports (6 th ) 117
  
• "Seeking a Targeted Charter Remedy: R. v. Caster and the Exclusion of Evidence Under Section 7" (2002) 47 Criminal Reports (5 th ) 271
• "The Utility of a Diminished Responsibility Defence: Can an Accused be 'Half Responsible' for a Murder?" (March, 2002), 60 The Advocate 211
• "Evidence of Post-Offence Conduct in Criminal Proceedings, Part II: The Spectrum of Admissibility to Infer Innocence" (January 2001) 59 The Advocate 43

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database