July |
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July 14, 2009 |
UBC Law Building Project to Begin Construction: Board of Governors Approves Final Phase
UBC Law is pleased to announce that on July 9, 2009 the University of British Columbia’s Board of Governors voted unanimously to approve the Faculty’s Building Project. The Faculty will move to swing space for approximately two years while a new building on the current site is under construction. more... |
July 27, 2009 |
UBC LAW and the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law Establish Joint Legal Education Program
The new joint legal education program opens doors for graduates to practice law in both Canada and the United States. more... |
June |
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June 2, 2009 |
UBC Law Remembers Professor Thomas Martin Franck
Professor Thomas Martin Franck (‘53), a well-known expert in international law, passed away on May 27 in his Manhattan home after battling cancer. more... |
June 5, 2009 |
Reappointment of Professor Mary Anne Bobinski, Dean, Faculty
of Law
UBC Law is pleased to announce that, on the recommendation
of President Toope, the Board of Governors has approved the
reappointment of Professor Mary Anne Bobinski as Dean of the
Faculty of Law for a second term to June 30, 2015. more... |
June 17, 2009 |
UBC Law Professor Benjamin Perrin named "hero" by the U.S. State Department for anti-human-trafficking work
On June 16th Assistant Professor Benjamin Perrin was one of nine individuals world-wide recognized as "Heroes in the Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery". This prestigious award is presented as part of the annual global Trafficking in Persons report released by Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State. more... |
June 25, 2009 |
2009 Alumni Achievement Award Recipients
The UBC Faculty of Law is proud to announce that three of our Alumni will be honoured at the 15th Annual UBC Alumni Achievement Awards, to be held Tuesday November 10 th 2009 at the Life Sciences Centre on the UBC Point Grey Campus. more... |
May |
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May 1, 2009 |
May 2009 E-Newsletter
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May 11, 2009 |
Dr. Janis Sarra Named as 2009 PEAK Award Finalist
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May 11, 2009 |
UBC Law Doctoral Student Receives Vanier Canada Scholarship
UBC Law PH.D student Kurt Mundorff is one of seventeen UBC doctoral students who received an inaugural Vanier Canada Scholarship. more... |
May 13, 2009 |
UBC Law Mourns Passing of Chief Judge Hugh Stansfield
It is with great sadness that UBC Faculty of Law recognizes the passing of Chief Judge Hugh Stansfield at the age of 57. more... |
May 20, 2009 |
UBC Alumni Receive British Columbia Judicial Appointments
Three UBC Law alumni recently received judicial appointments. The appointments were announced on May 15 by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. more... |
April |
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April 3, 2009 |
April 2009 E-Newsletter
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April 9, 2009 |
Dr. Pitman Potter named as a senior fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
UBC Law Professor Dr. Pitman Potter has been names as a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Dr. Potter joins five other Senior Fellows who lend their expertise to the Foundation.
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April 20, 2009 |
Dean of Law and Law Alumnae Nominated for YWCA Woman of Distinction Awards
UBC Law is pleased to announce that UBC Dean of Law Mary Anne Bobinski and UBC Law Alumnae Margaret Ostrowski QC (Class of 1979) have been nominated for 2009 YWCA Woman of Distinction Awards. Dean Bobinski is one if four nominees in the Education, Training and Development category and Ms. Ostrowski is one of six nominees in the Business & the Professions category.
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April 28, 2009 |
American Bar Association honours UBC Professor and UBC Alumna
Professor Janis Sarra and UBC Law Alumna Madam Justice Mary V. Newbury, British Columbia Court of Appeal (’74) both received awards for “Leadership in Women in Business and the Law” on Friday, April 13th from the American Bar Association (ABA) at its Annual Convention at the new Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre. more... |
April 28, 2009 |
UBC Law Welcomes Five New Faculty Members
UBC Law is pleased to welcome its newest Faculty members – Professors David Duff, Ben Goold, Darlene Johnston, Mary Liston and James Stewart. Starting in the 2009/2010 academic year, these five distinguished legal scholars will bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to UBC Law’s complement of talented academics and educators. more... |
March |
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Mar 3, 2009 |
UBC Law Alumni Association Achievement Awards Dinner
The UBC Law Alumni Association is pleased to announce the 2009 recipients of the Alumni Achievement Awards. more... |
Mar 11, 2009 |
2009 BLG Fellowships
The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the two successful first year candidates for the 2009 BLG Fellowships. more... |
Mar 16, 2009 |
UBC Law Team Wins UBC/UVic
UBC Law returned home with the Begbie Trophy as victors of the British Columbia Law Schools Competitive Moot, aka the UBC/UVic Moot, held in Victoria, B.C.
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Mar 17, 2009 |
UBC Law Team Wins Sopinka Cup
UBC Law is delighted to congratulate law students Laura McPheeters and George Roper on winning the 2009 Sopinka Cup in Ottawa on March 14-15. more... |
Mar 18, 2009 |
2009 Teaching Excellence Award
Professor Michael Jackson was announced as the winner of this year’s Teaching Excellence Award at the 2009 Graduate Dinner on Saturday, March 14. more... |
Mar 19, 2009 |
Professor Joel Bakan’s The Corporation Re-released by Penguin Canada
In recognition of being named 2008 publisher of the year at the Canadian Booksellers Association’s 2008 Libris Awards, Penguin Canada re-released its top six Canadian-authored non-fiction books of the last ten years in special retro-designed editions. more... |
Mar 24, 2009 |
Oxford Intellectual Property Moot 2009 - UBC Semi-Finalists
UBC Law is proud to announce the Faculty’s team returned home from the Oxford Intellectual Property Moot 2009 as semi-finalists. more... |
Mar 26, 2009 |
UBC Law Professor and Students Launch Website to Fight Human Trafficking
Assistant Professor Benjamin Perrin and the UBC Faculty of Law Human Trafficking Working Group have teamed up with David Batston’s “Not for Sale” campaign to create www.SlaveryMap.ca – a tool that will document cases of human trafficking in Canada. more... |
February |
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Feb 2, 2009 |
In Memoriam: J. Alan Beesley, Canadian diplomat and UBC Law alumnus
Ambassador J. Alan Beesley, O.C., Q.C., died peacefully with family at his side in Victoria on Thursday January 22. more... |
Feb 2, 2009 |
The Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Project receives a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant
UBC Law is proud to announce that Dr. Pitman Potter, Professor of Law and Hong Kong Bank Chair in Asian Research, is the recipient of a new $2.5 million Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. more... |
Feb 5, 2009 |
February 2009 E-Newsletter
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Feb 5, 2009 |
10th Annual Guile Memorial Debate
The winners of the 2009 Debate were Megan Alexander and Geoff Rawle more... |
Feb 5, 2009 |
2009 Western Canada Mock Trial Competition (the MacIntyre Cup)
The winners of the 2008 Peter Burns Mock Trial Competition, Laura McPheeters and George Roper more... |
Feb 19, 2009 |
Law Student Bijan Ahmadian Re-elected to UBC Board of Governors
Second year MBA/Law student Bijan Ahmadian was re-elected to the UBC Board of Governors for a second term during the 2009 AMS elections held in early February. more... |
January |
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Jan 13, 2009 |
January 2009 E-Newsletter
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Jan 14, 2009 |
New Faculty Book Publications
UBC Law is delighted to announce that two faculty members have recently had scholarly works published. Professor Bruce MacDougall has published a volume entitled Personal Property and Secured Transactions in Halsbury's Laws of Canada (vol. 26, LexisNexis 2008), and Professor Bob Paterson has published Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage; Laws, Policy and Reform (with Catherine Bell, from UBC Press). |
Jan 16, 2009 |
The Strother Family Entrance Scholarship in Law
UBC Law is proud to announce the creation of The Strother Family Entrance Scholarship in Law, actualized by the donations of Rob Strother, a former adjunct faculty member of UBC Law. The winner of the inaugural 2008 award was Yun Li, a first year student at UBC Law. more... |
Jan 16, 2009 |
UBC Law Professor Elected to Membership of the American Institute of Law (ALI).
Dr. Janis Sarra, an esteemed member of the UBC Faculty of Law, has been elected to the membership of the American Institute of Law (ALI). On October 17, 2008 – ALI published the names of its newly-elected members, raising total membership to 4,152 law professionals who are selected upon the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law. more... |
Jan 29, 2009 |
UBC Law Welcomes New Social Justice Community Scholar Visitor
UBC Law is proud to announce that Annabel Webb will be the 2009 Social Justice Community Scholar Visitor for the spring 2009 semester. more... |
December |
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Dec 3, 2008 |
Environmental Law Negotiation Competition
Forty-two participants recently took part in the Law Students’ Environmental Law Group’s fifth annual Environmental Law Negotiation competition. The event, held on November 14, was made possible by volunteers from both the law school and the legal community. Fourteen judges from the environmental legal community volunteered their time and Assistant Professor Natasha Affolder and Professor Ian Townsend-Gault acted as judges. Law student Virginia Richards was the competition’s main organizer, assisted by members of the Environmental Law Group and fellow law students Jon Boersma, Alison Van De Kraats, Gillian Piggot, Claire Stilwell, Bekkah Coburn, Megan Alexander, and Jacqueline Kotyk. |
Dec 9, 2008 |
UBC Law Graduate Named as UBC’s first Ombudsperson for Students
The University of British Columbia has appointed UBC Law Graduate Shirley Nakata (’88) as the university’s first Ombudsperson for Students. The new office will mediate or intervene on behalf of students at UBC Vancouver to help resolve conflicts with professors, staff members or university departments, conducting impartial investigations and providing advice to students. more... |
Dec 12, 2008 |
December 2008 E-Newsletter
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November |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
November 2008 E-Newsletter
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Nov 7, 2008 |
2008 Peter Burns Mock Trial Competition
On Friday November 7, eight students competed in the Peter Burns mock trial at the UBC Faculty of Law. Students paired up to “play” counsel in R. v. Landry, a trial by jury involving various charges including dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while street racing, an offence added to the Criminal Code in 2006.
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Nov 19, 2008 |
UBC Law Professor Publishes new Intellectual Property book
UBC Law is pleased to announce that Dr. Mira T. Sundara Rajan’s new book, entitled “Moral Rights and New Technology: The Future of Copyright Law,” will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. more... |
Nov 25, 2008 |
Associate Director of the First Nations Legal Studies Program
UBC Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrea Hilland as Associate Director of the First Nations Legal Studies Program.
Hilland comes to the Faculty from West Coast Environmental Law, where she worked on forestry law and land use planning. Before that she was a staff lawyer (and later managing lawyer) with EAGLE (Environmental-Aboriginal Guardianship through Law and Education) for several years.
She is a graduate of UBC Law, articled at Sierra Legal Defense Fund, and was called to the bar in 2003. |
Nov 29, 2008 |
2008 Canadian National Mediation Advocacy Competition
On November 20-22, law students from across Canada met in Toronto to take part in the inaugural Canadian National Mediation Advocacy Competition (CNMAC). more... |
October |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
October 2008 E-Newsletter
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Oct 6, 2008 |
The Faculty of Law held its annual Fall Faculty Reception on Monday, October 6, 2008 at UBC’s Sage Bistro. The reception celebrates the beginning of a new academic year and announces several awards of service. more...
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Oct 10, 2008 |
Law Alumni Association Announces 2008 Distinguished Speakers Fall Lunch Speaker
The UBC Law Alumni Association is delighted to announce the speaker for the 2008 Annual Distinguished Speakers Fall Lunch. On December 1, veteran CBC Washington Newsman Henry Champ will give the talk “The U.S. Presidential Election: What Happened?" more...
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Oct 28, 2008 |
Borden Ladner Gervais Fellowship Renewal Announced
UBC Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the expanded five-year commitment of 1.2 million for the Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) Fellowship Program, by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. more...
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Oct 28, 2008 |
UBC Law Professor releases Canada's first stats on foreign human trafficking victims
Romania, the Philippines, Moldova and China are the top-four source countries for foreign victims of human trafficking to Canada, according to new statistics released today by UBC Law Assistant Professor Benjamin Perrin. more...
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Oct 30, 2008 |
The National Centre for Business Law Fall 2008 Executive in Residence and Annual General Meeting and Reception
On October 22 and 23, 2008 the National Centre for Business Law was honoured to host Mr. Thomas d’Aquino (LL.B ’65, UBC) as its 2nd Executive in Residence. more...
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Oct 30, 2008 |
UBC Alumni Among Those Honoured at 2008 Alumni Achievement Awards
Every year the UBC Alumni Association singles out outstanding UBC alumni with awards presented at the annual Alumni Achievement Awards Evening. more...
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Oct 30, 2008 |
UBC Law Faculty Receives $1 Million Gift from Fasken Martineau
On September 23rd, 2008 William Westeringh, Managing Partner, Fasken Martineau joined students, staff and faculty in a celebration of the firm’s $1 million gift to the Faculty of Law. more...
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Setember |
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Sept 1, 2008 |
September 2008 E-Newsletter
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Sept 2, 2008 |
UBC Faculty of Law Moves to J.D. (Juris Doctor) Designation
UBC Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that the student-led initiative recommending that UBC Law change the name of its degree from an LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) to a J.D. (Juris Doctor) takes effect in 2008/2009 academic year.
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Sept 5, 2008 |
First Social Justice Community Scholar Visitor at UBC Law
Susan Henry, a community worker/advocate at First United Church Mission in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, will be the inaugural Social Justice Community Scholar Visitor at the Faculty of Law.
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August |
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Aug 1, 2008 |
UBC Professor Perrin receives $15,000 grant from Metropolis BC
Benjamin Perrin, Assistant Professor at the UBC Faculty of Law has been awarded a $15,000 research grant from Metropolis B.C. to support a study to better understand the role of British Columbia as a transit point for human trafficking involving foreign nationals. more... |
Aug 27, 2008 |
Professor Awarded Prestigious Visiting Fellowship at Magdalen College in Oxford
UBC Law is pleased to announce that Dr. Mira Sundara Rajan has been promoted to Associate Professor as of July 1, 2008 and has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford University in the Summer of 2009. more... |
July |
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July 8, 2008 |
UBC Law Graduate Recipient of Law Society Gold Medal
UBC Law graduate Ashleigh Keall, received a 2008 Law Society's Gold Medal Award as recognition for maintaining the highest cumulative grade point average over the three years of her LL.B. program at the UBC Faculty of Law. more... |
July 22, 2008 |
Social Justice Community Scholar Visitorship
The Law Foundation has generously funded this pilot programme for the upcoming academic year, 2008 – 09. The programme provides for Visitorships to the Faculty of Law of two individuals from social justice community organizations. more... |
