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Faculty of Law

Freya Kodar

Freya Kodar

Dean of Law

Contact:
Office: FRA 102d 250-721-8147
ORCID:
0000-0002-7681-4743
Credentials:
BA (McGill); LLB (UVic); LLM (York University).
Area(s) of expertise:
Income security, disability and the law, debtor & creditor relations, torts, pensions, consumer law
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Biography

Freya Kodar joined the faculty in 2005, served as Associate Dean, Administration and Research from 2016 to 2021, and was appointed Dean in 2023. She co-chairs the University’s Accessibility Committee and is a Trustee of UVic’s Long Term Disability Trust. She is a graduate of UVic Law’s co-op program and shared the William R. McIntyre Medal for academic excellence, community service and student leadership over the course of the LLB program. Before pursuing graduate studies, she articled and practiced with two legal aid clinics in British Columbia.

Her research focuses on income and financial security across the life course, and she researches and teaches in the areas of disability law, pension law and policy, debtor and creditor relations, consumer law and policy, and feminist analysis of the law. She is a co-author of Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis), the first Canadian textbook on Law and Disability, and co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law / Revue Femmes et Droit.

Selected publications

Books 
Book chapters
  • “Federal Income Support: Canada Pension Plan Disability and Employment Insurance Sickness Benefits” in Laverne Jacobs et al, Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2021) at 99.
  • “Til Debt Do Us Part: Reality TV and the Financial Literacy Regulatory Project” in Peter Robson and Jessica Silbey, eds, Law and Justice on the Small Screen (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012) at 211-27.
Journal articles
Other publications

Special projects and other work

Indigenous Law Wing 

  • Professor Kodar was the faculty’s point-person in the collaborative process to develop the vision and design for the award-winning Coast Salish-inspired wing that houses classrooms and spaces designed for conversations, research, teaching and learning about Indigenous law issues and questions, and purpose-built space for the faculty’s clinical programs and research centres. Learn more. 

University of Victoria Accessibility Committee

  • Since 2023, she has co-chaired the university’s Accessibility Committee which consults and collaborates on initiatives and policies to improve accessibility. A foundational focus is meeting and exceeding the standards of the Accessible British Columbia Act, SBC 2021, c. 19. Learn more.

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law / Revue Femmes et Droit

  • She is co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law / Revue Femmes et Droit (with Rebecca Johnson and Audrey Ferron Parayre), Canada’s leading law and feminism journal with a focus on law’s impact on the social, economic, and legal conditions of women’s lives. Learn more.

Grants

Murray and Anne Fraser Endowment Research & Scholarship Award. “Coerced Debt – A Survey of Current and Potential Regulatory Responses.” $5,000, 2022. 

Law Foundation of British Columbia Legal Research Fund Grant. “Online Dispute Resolution, A2J and Law-making.” $6,420, 2020. (with Patricia Cochran). 

Industry Canada, Office of Consumer Affairs, Innovation, Science and Economic Development. “Online High-cost Lending in Canada: Consumer Protection Challenges and Regulatory Approaches.” $17,500, 2015-16.

Media

Courses