Faculty directory

Name

Contact

Research Interests

Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey
Serving as Associate Vice-President Academic Programs
Remedies, insurance, torts, feminist analysis of law, law and society, and race, ethnicity, and the law. 
Funmilola Ayotunde Human rights law, transnational advocacy, natural resources development, Indigenous rights, international environmental law, and business and human rights.

John Borrows
(On leave until June 30, 2025)

250-721-8168
Indigenous law, environmental law, constitutional law.

Brad Bryan

250-721-8164
[email protected]

Taxation law, First Nations taxation.

Gillian Calder
(On leave until June 30, 2025)

250-472-5127
[email protected]

Family law and social issues, constitutional law, gender equality.

Kathryn Chan 


250-721-8163
[email protected]

Nonprofit sector law, law and religion, administrative law and regulation, trusts, the law of gift.

Patricia Cochran
Associate Dean, Administration and Research

250-721-8183

Constitutional law, legal and political theory, law and the humanities.

Deborah L Curran,
Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre

250-853-3105
[email protected]
Water law, municipal law, growth management and land use law, environmental law, agricultural land and food systems, real estate and shared-decision making.

Maneesha Deckha
Lansdowne Chair in Law

250-721-8175
[email protected]
Animal legal studies, feminist animal care theory and feminist analysis of law, critical animal studies, postcolonial theory, reproductive and end-of-life law and ethics, administrative law.

Mark R Gillen 

250-721-8169
[email protected]
Securities, trusts, business associations, tax and competition law.

Alan Hanna

250-472-5247
[email protected]

Aboriginal law, Indigenous lands, rights and governance.
Chris Heslinga
Director of the Law Centre Clinical Legal Education Program

250-385-1221 
[email protected]

Clinical and public legal education.
Robert Howell 250-721-8186
[email protected]
Intellectual property, technology, telecommunications, private international law.

Rebecca Johnson
Director, Graduate Program

250-721-8187
[email protected]
Criminal law, legal process, business associations.

Asad Kiyani

250-472-5042
[email protected]

Race and criminal law, Police powers, International Criminal Law, Third World Approaches to International Law, Legal Pluralism, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Citizenship.

Freya Kodar
Dean of Law

250-721-8190
[email protected]
Pension (public and private), consumer law and policy, debt and credit regulation, income security, care work, disability and the law.

Robert Lapper, KC
Dorothy & David Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy

250-721-7647 
[email protected]
Access to justice, justice innovation, public policy, professional regulation and ethics, Aboriginal law. 

Michelle Lawrence  
Director, Access to Justice Centre of Excellence
(on leave until June 30, 2025)

250-721-8173
[email protected]

Access to justice, justice innovation, criminal law, evidence, sentencing, substance abuse and mental disorder, relationship violence, police accountability.
Darcy Lindberg

250-721-8182
[email protected]

Indigenous law, ecological governance through Indigenous legal orders, gender and Indigenous ceremonies, Indigenous treaty making.

Tracey Lindberg
(on leave until June 30, 2025)

250-721-8894
[email protected]

Traditional Indigenous governments, Cree laws, translation between Canadian and Indigenous laws, Indigenous women, legal advocacy and activism.

Geoffrey Loomer
(on leave until June 30, 2025)

250-721-8161  [email protected]

International and comparative taxation law and corporate taxation. 

Andrew Luesley

 [email protected]

Commercial law, law and technology, and critical race theory.

Colin Macleod

250-721-7521
[email protected]
Philosophy, liberal equality.

David Milward
(on leave until June 30, 2025)

250-721-8154
[email protected]

Criminal law, Indigenous justice, and evidence.

Sarah Morales
Director, JD/JID Program

250-721-8184
[email protected]

Aboriginal law, Indigenous legal traditions and international human rights.

Val Napoleon
Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance

250-721-8172
[email protected]

Indigenous legal traditions, Indigenous feminist legal studies, governance, restorative justice, Indigenous property law, Aboriginal legal issues.

Andrew Newcombe 
Associate Dean, Academic and Student Relations

250-721-8152
[email protected]
International investment law and arbitration, international trade law and contracts.

Pooja Parmar
President’s Chair in Law and Indigeneity in a Global Context

250-721-8179

legal pluralism, legal ethics, int’l human rights law, legal history, law and colonialism.

Janna Promislow

250-472-5027
[email protected]

Aboriginal Law, administrative law, constitutional law, Indigenous Law, Crown-Indigenous treaties, the duty to consult and accommodate, Crown-Indigenous treaty rights and interpretation, colonial legal history, legal pluralism.

Victor V. Ramraj
Director, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI)
250-721-7024
Comparative constitutional and administrative law (SE Asia), transnational regulation, law and globalization, emergency powers in Asia.

Sara Ramshaw 
Director, Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT)

250-721-8165 [email protected]

Family law, human rights, contracts, arts-based approaches to law, law and the humanities, improvisation and the law, legal theory/jurisprudence.
Tim Richards
Director, First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program
250-721-8185
[email protected]
Human rights law, poverty and social policy, legal skills education.

Chris Tollefson

250-721-8170
[email protected]
Environmental law and litigation, sustainability, environmental governance, forestry, Aboriginal law, access to justice.

Estair Van Wagner

[email protected]

Name

Phone

Email

Freya Kodar
Dean of Law
250 721-8147

Patricia Cochran
Associate Dean, Administration and Research

250 721-8161 [email protected]

Andrew Newcombe
Associate Dean, Academic and Student Relations

250 721-8152 [email protected]
Rebecca Johnson
Director, Graduate Program
250 721-8175 [email protected]

Name

Title

Email

Roberto Alberto Sessional Instructor
Ross Alexander Adjunct Professor [email protected]
Michael Asch  Adjunct Professor
Trevor Bant Sessional Instructor
Eszter Bodnár Adjunct Professor [email protected]
Oliver Brandes Adjunct Professor

[email protected]

Susan Breau Adjunct Professor
Andrew Buck Adjunct Professor  [email protected]
Meghan Butler Sessional Instructor [email protected]
Akshaya Chandani Dean’s Graduate Fellow and Sessional Instructor

[email protected]

Kaitlyn Chewka Adjunct Professor
William Clark Sessional Instructor

[email protected]

Renée Cochard Sessional Instructor
Gina Connor Sessional Instructor
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger Adjunct Professor
Kaitlyn Cumming Sessional Instructor
Bradley Danks Adjunct Professor 
Fernando De Lima Adjunct Professor
Paula Donnachie Adjunct Professor 

[email protected]

Joel Feinman Limited Term Teaching Professor
Stephen Ferance Adjunct Professor 

 

Sean Finn Adjunct Professor [email protected]
Chandra Fisher Sessional Instructor
Hadley Friedland Adjunct Professor
Alandra Harlingten Adjunct Professor 
Hank Intven Adjunct Professor 

[email protected]

Clare Jennings Adjunct Professor

 

Laura Johnston Adjunct Professor 

[email protected]

Stephen King

Sessional Instructor

 

Michelle Kinney

Sessional Instructor

 

Arvind Kumar

Sessional Instructor

[email protected]

Valerie Le Blanc

Adjunct Professor

[email protected]
Michael Litchfield

Director, Business Law Clinic

[email protected]

Jessica Lott-Thomson Sessional Instructor

[email protected]

Stephen Lyons

Adjunct Professor 

[email protected]

Raji Mangat Adjunct Professor 

[email protected]

Claude Marchessault Adjunct Professor 
Chris Massey Sessional Instructor
Lee Mauro Adjunct Professor
Arthur McInnis Adjunct Professor 
Kent McNeil Limited Term Visiting Professor

 

Michael M’Gonigle Adjunct Professor

 

Laura Miller Adjunct Professor 
Jacquie Miller Limited-Term Assistant Professor

 

Melanie Mortensen Sessional Instructor

[email protected]

Christine Murray Sessional Instructor
Joel Oliphant Adjunct Professor 
JA Pankiw-Petty Adjunct Professor
Jess Patterson Adjunct Professor 

Thanh Cong Phan Sessional Instructor

Lorne Phipps Adjunct Professor 
Deanna Rivers Adjunct Professor 

[email protected]

Supriya Routh Adjunct Professor 

 

Stuart Rush Adjunct Professor

 

George Seymour Sessional Instructor
Theodore Sum Adjunct Professor 
Darcie Suntjens Sessional Instructor [email protected]
Carla Tait Sessional Instructor
Michael Taylor Sessional Instructor
Alan Treleaven Adjunct Professor

[email protected]

John Tuck Adjunct Professor 

[email protected]

Ian Wiebe Adjunct Professor

[email protected]

Kim Willey Adjunct Professor

[email protected]

David Yarwood Sessional Instructor
Jeffrey Young Adjunct Professor

 

Mark Zion Sessional Instructor

[email protected]

Tom Zworski Adjunct Professor

 

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