Graduate Students

PhD students

Name

Interests

E-mail

Supervisor

Marie-Sophie Banville Relationship with land; affect and embodiment; aboriginal title; real property law; financialization of housing; and immanent ethics

Lindberg, D.

Kinwa Bluesky

Borrows

Brian Calliou

Borrows

Akshaya Chandani

 

Parmar

Nima Dorji Bhutanese election law; constitutional (fundamental) rights and duties; Buddhism and law; intellectual property law.

Ramraj

Rachel Flowers

Johnson

David Gill Alternatives to criminal law in both Canadian and Indigenous legal orders​.

Napoleon

Jason Gratl The Regulation of Truth.

Cochran

Kim Senklip Harvey Indigenous Cultural Artistic Legal Orders.

Johnson

Chidimma Ike

Iyioha

Tamunobelema Itamunoala Climate change.

Routh

Arvind Kumar Access to justice in Adivasi lands of India; non-international armed conflicts with a special focus on the Naxal movement.

Parmar

Sabrina Lamanna

Milward

Eva Linde Environmental law; climate change; human rights; international law; European Union law.

Chan

Michael Litchfield Cannabis regulation; regulation of drugs and alcohol; corporate/commercial law; real property law; governance; ethics.

Lawrence

Katherine Llorca Green legal theory.

Johnson

Lana Lowe Indigenous Environmental Law and Governance.

Napoleon

Ratana Ly Transnational regulations; legal pluralism; human rights & the environment; transitional justice.

Ramraj

Maria Carolina Marinho-Ribeiro

Cochran

Trung Q. Nguyen State responsibilities.

Breau

Summer Okibe Indigenous law; Aboriginal rights; Environmental law; climate change; climate justice; human rights; and international law.

Lindberg, D.

Ademiju Olatunji International criminal law; human rights and corruption.

Kiyani

Smriti Pokhrel

Parmar

Songkrant Pongboonjun

Interaction between formal legal institutions; civil liberties and civil rights.

Curran

Himaloya Saha Intersection between labour laws and foreign direct investment; issues of cross-border insolvency.

Routh

Mélisande Séguin

Webber

Panch Rishi Dev Sharma Comparative constitutional law; emergency constitution; comparative federalism; South Asian jurisprudence.

Ramraj

Jennifer Smith Environmental displacement of human populations; climate change refugees.

Kiyani

Devyani Tewari Gender and disability rights; law and literature; law and popular culture.

Iyioha

Paige Thombs Religious lawyering; legal history in Canada; religion in the public sphere; legal ethics. 

Chan

Vanessa Udy Indigenous Law, Legal Pluralism, Environmental Stewardship

Hanna

Esteban Vallejo Toledo Taxation, tax law, local taxes, property taxes, land value capture, spatial inclusion, legal geography, Indigenous law and taxation, fiscal decentralization, fiscal federalism, official statistics, legal and research ethics, dispute resolution, legal pluralism, as well as legal history and anthropology.

Bryan

Mary Anne Vallianatos Legal history; critical race feminism; administrative law; property; postcolonial theory

Parmar

Mark Zion Theory; critical legal thought; temporality; ecology; Indigeneity; posthumanism; poststructuralism.

Johnson

LLM students

Name

Interests

E-mail

Supervisor

Jessica Asch

Indigenous law questions relating to citizenship; gender; matrimonial property; dispute resolution; child welfare; and lands; water and resources.

 

Borrows

Kirsty Broadhead

Milward

Jay Esin

Cochran, Yap

Monte Forster

Milward

Richard Fyfe

Cochran,  Kodar

Leah George-Wilson

Napoleon

Kate Gower

Improving access to justice in B.C.; Illuminating different theories of change and the nature of the change required to improve access to justice; Constellating new tools and technologies in court, and  user-centred, innovative data collection and analysis techniques to illuminate what legal problems people have and what help they want.

 

Lapper, Webber

Caroline Grady

Indigenous business law, including First Nations taxation, financing, and business structuring.

Bryan

Christina Gray

Indigenous constitutionalism and the intersection of Indigenous legal orders in human rights cases at provincial and federal tribunals.

Napoleon

Meredith James

Remediation and reclamation of sites impacted by contamination, development and other disturbances; Aboriginal law; Indigenous laws; and Environmental law.

Curran

Leif Jensen

Promislow

Abishek Kaul

Routh

Toluwalope Kolawole

Environmental and energy law; alternative dispute resolution and collaborative governance​.

Napoleon

Chibueze Ngozi

Ramshaw

Jacqueline Ohayon Indigenous governance; Indigenous jurisdiction; Resistance movements; Environmental law; Climate justice; Legal pluralism; Legal anthropology.

Lindberg, D.

Oluwasikemi Oluwatuyi International taxation; trade and corporate finance.

Loomer

Archana Ravichandradeva

Parmar

Ezinwanne Raymond Critical legal studies.

Iyioha

Graduate Visiting Research Students (GVRS)

Name

Interests

E-mail

Supervisor

Natwara Detkhat

Indigenous business law; tax law; human rights; and gender law. Ramshaw