Faculty in the News

UBC offers externship in environmental, resources law
Author: Jean Sorensen, Canadian Lawyer Magazine
Mentioned: Professor Benjamin Richardson, Director of UBC’s Centre for Law and the Environment & Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability
Date: May 6, 2013
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Environmental lawyers 'have a big role to play'
Author: Kathryn Boothby, Leader Post
Mentioned: Ben Richardson, Director of the Centre for Law & the Environment at the University of British Columbia
Date: April 27, 2013
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Environmental lawyers are part of the solution
Author: Kathryn Boothby, Calgary Herald
Mentioned: Ben Richardson, Director of the Centre for Law & the Environment at the University of British Columbia
Date: Saturday, April 2, 2013
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Paternity case settled out of court leaving sperm donor laws far from clear
Author: Tom Blackwell, National Post
Mentioned: Professor Fiona Kelly
Date: April 22, 2013
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Exploiting children's emotions for profit at odds with Nickelodeon's CSR
Author: Professor Joel Bakan, Guardian News
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
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Working abroad won't spare you from tax hit at home
Author: Sean Davidson, CBC News
Mentioned: Professor David Duff
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
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Free-speech zealot Doug Christie defended anti-Semites, white supremacists
Author: Rod Mickleburgh, The Globe and Mail
Mentioned: Professor Robin Elliot
Monday, March 25, 2013
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Canadian prisons 'out of step' on solitary confinement
Author: Kirk Makin, The Globe and Mail
Mentioned: Professor Michael Jackson
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013
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Premier Clark celebrates some of B.C.'s finest with Queen's medal
Author: Mike Morton. Newsroom: BC Government Online News Source.
Mentioned: Professor Anthony Sheppard.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013.
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Aboriginal Affairs Minister Duncan resigns over letter: Vancouver Island North MP provided reference to tax court judge
Authors: Mark Kennedy and Michael Woods. The Vancouver Sun.
February 16, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Anthony Sheppard
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Limited options for redress
Author: Paul Christopher. Canadian Medical Association Journal.
February 7, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Michael Jackson
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New science would let Folbigg go free
Author: Eamonn Duff. The Sydney Morning Herald.
February 3, 2013.
Mentioned: Assistant Professor Emma Cunliffe
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Crusade to free Kathleen Folbigg
Author: Joanne McCarthy. The Newcastle Herald.
February 4, 2013.
Mentioned: Assistant Professor Emma Cunliffe.
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Did she do it? Why Kathleen Folbigg may not have killed her four babies
Author: Mark Whittaker. February 2, 2013.
Mentioned: Assistant Professor Emma Cunliffe.
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Top court rejects pension holders' bid
Author: Mike Blanchfield. The Canadian Press.
February 2, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Ronald Davis.
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Refugee rules the end of Canada's humanitarian tradition
Author: Catherine Dauvergne. The Globe and Mail.
January 29, 2013.
Written by Catherine Dauvergne, Trudeau Fellow at Faculty of Law at Allard Hall.
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B.C.-based university faces battle to open religious law school
Author: Herman Chau. Global News. January 28, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Margot Young
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Hollywood cranks out another anti-business movie: Unable to fake facts on fracking, Promised Land attacks 'greedy' corporations bent on exploiting ranchers
Author: Gwyn Moore. The Vancouver Sun.
January 26, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Joel Bakan
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Top court to hear B.C. land rights case: Legal experts say the ruling will finally determine how title claims can be established
Author: Peter O'Neil. The Vancouver Sun.
January 25, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Gordon Christie.
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Canadian resource firms step up legal fight against green groups
Author: Kristen Courtney. Alertnet.
January 22, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Joost Blom.
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Time to fight back against Hollywood's misinformation
Author: Gwyn Morgan. The Globe and Mail.
January 20, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Joel Bakan.
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New immigrant detention policy tough on asylum seekers
Authors: Efrat Arbel and Peter Showler. The Vancouver Sun.
January 18, 2013.
Op-Ed co-written by Postdoctoral Research Fellow Efrat Arbel.
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Nortel acquittals could have chilling effect on Canadian prosecutions
Author: Cameron French. National Post.
January 15, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Cristie Ford.
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Canada's growing culture of refugee exclusion
Author: Krystle Alarcon. The Vancouver Observer.
December 13, 2012.
Mentioned: Professor Ashal Kaushal and Professor Catherine Dauvergne
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Experts clash over impact of NDP position on rights: Bill would require all laws to adhere to 2007 UN declaration
Author: Peter O'Neil. The Vancouver Sun. January 29, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Gordon Christie
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Sedin twins, Naslund deny reports they refuse to testify in Steve Moore case.
Author: Gordon McIntyre. The Province.
January 14, 2013.
Mentioned: Assistant Professor Emma Cunliffe.
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Chris Selley: Harper's relations with First Nations was stifled by omnibus bill
Author: Chris Selley. The National Post.
January 10, 2013.
Mentioned: Professor Gordon Christie
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