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Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey (eadjinte@uvic.ca), LL.B. (Ghana) 1988, Barrister-at-Law (Ghana) 1990, LL.M. (Queen’s) 1991, LL.M. (Calgary) 1993, D.Jur. (Osgoode) 1996. Professor Adjin-Tettey joined the Faculty of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 1998 and became a full-time faculty member in 2000. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. Professor Adjin-Tettey previously taught at the University of Windsor and Carleton University. Her teaching and research interests are in torts, remedies, race and ethnicity and the law, feminist analysis of law and critical theory. Her publications include “Replicating and Perpetuating Inequalities in Personal Injury Claims through Female-Specific Contingencies”, “Measurement of Damages for Interference with Property Interests in Torts and Contracts”, “Significance and Consequences of Parental Responsibility Legislation” and “Social Host Liability: A Logical Extension of Commercial Host Liability?”

Benjamin L. Berger, (bberger@uvic.ca), B.A. First Class Honours (Alberta) 1999, LL.B. (UVic) 2002, LL.M. (Yale) 2004, J.S.D. (Candidate) (Yale). Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. Prior to joining the Faculty, Professor Berger served as law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in 2002-2003 and was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University in 2003-2004. His research addresses questions related to constitutional and criminal law and theory, the law of evidence, law and culture, and law and religion. Some of his recent publications include ‘On the Book of Job, Justice, and the Precariousness of Criminal Law,’ Law, Cultural and the Humanities; ‘Emotions and the Veil of Voluntarism: The Loss of Judgment in Canadian Criminal Law,’ McGill Law Journal; ‘Understanding Law and Religion as Culture: Making Room for Meaning in the Public Sphere,’ Constitutional Forum; ‘The Rule in Hodge’s Case: Rumours of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated,’ Canadian Bar Review (2005), ‘The Limits of Belief: Freedom of Religion, Secularism, and the Liberal State’, Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2002), ‘Peine Forte et Dure: Compelled Jury Trials and Legal Rights in Canada’, Criminal Law Quarterly (2003). Professor Berger teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, and Civil Liberties and the Charter.

John Borrows, (jborrows@uvic.ca), B.A. (Toronto) 1987, M.A. (Toronto) 1996, LL.B. (Toronto) 1991, LL.M. (Toronto), D.Jur. (Osgoode) 1994. Professor Borrows is Anishinabe and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation. He was appointed to the Faculty of Law as Professor and Law Foundation Chair of Aboriginal Justice and Governance in 2001. Prior to joining the Faculty he taught at: the University of Toronto; the University of British Columbia as the Director of the First Nations Law Program; Osgoode Hall Law School as the Director of the Intensive Program in Lands, Resources and First Nations Governments; and, was a visiting professor at Arizona State University and Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program. His research interests are in Aboriginal law, constitutional law, and natural resources/environmental law. His publications include Aboriginal Legal Issues: Cases, Materials and Commentary (Butterworths, 1998) and Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (University of Toronto Press, 2002). Professor Borrows is Canada's leading Indigenous law scholar.

Gillian Calder (gcalder@uvic.ca), B.A. (U.B.C.) 1993, LL.B. (U.B.C.) 1997, Diploma in University Teaching (U.N.B.) 2002, LL.M. (Osgoode) 2003, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1999. Professor Calder joined the Faculty of Law in 2004 from the practice of aboriginal law in Vancouver. Prior to that time Professor Calder taught at the University of New Brunswick (2001-2002) and was a clerk to the B.C. Supreme Court (1997-1998). Her current research interests include the relationship between women, work and family; the provision of social benefits through Canadian law; and feminist, constitutional and equality theories. Professor Calder will teach Constitutional Law, Family Law and Social Welfare Law.
Professor Calder's course and research webpage.

Neil A. Campbell, Law Librarian (neilcam@uvic.ca), B.A. (U.B.C.) 1975, LL.B. (UVic) 1979, M.L.S. (U.B.C.) 1984, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1980. Professor Campbell joined the Faculty in 2001 as an Associate Professor and Law Librarian. Prior to that he was the University Librarian at the University of Northern British Columbia from 1998 to 2000, and Assistant Professor of Law and Librarian at the University of Manitoba from 1989 to 1998. His academic research and writing is in legal bibliography and computer applications. He teaches Advanced Legal Research & Writing.

Jamie Cassels, Q.C. (jcassels@uvic.ca), B.A. (Carleton) 1976, LL.B. (Western Ontario) 1980, LL.M. (Columbia) 1981, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1991. Professor Cassels was appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1981 and has taught here since that time. His areas of teaching and research include contracts, legal theory, and remedies and he has published widely in these areas. In addition, Professor Cassels’ research and writing covers environmental issues, law and society in India, and race and gender issues in the law of tort. He is the author of several books including The Uncertain Promise of Law: Lessons from Bhopal and Remedies: The Law of Damages. Professor Cassels has served as Dean and Associate Dean of the Faculty and is currently the Vice-President Academic for the University of Victoria. He was a founding director of the British Columbia Law Institute and engages in public interest research and advocacy. Professor Cassels participates in continuing education programs in the community and for judges and lawyers, and has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, including the Faculty of Law’s Master Teacher Award, the University of Victoria Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Award for Academic Excellence and one of Canada’s premier teaching awards, the 3M Teaching Fellowship in 2002. On leave.

Donald G. Casswell (casswell@uvic.ca), B.Sc. (Toronto) 1972, LL.B. (Osgoode) 1976, LL.M. (Toronto) 1980, Cert. in For. and Comp. Law (Columbia) 1981, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978. Professor Casswell practiced litigation in Toronto prior to being appointed to the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1980. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983 and to Professor in 1992. He served as Associate Dean from 1990 to 1993. Professor Casswell's teaching and scholarship focus on evidence, immigration and refugee law, and lesbian and gay rights law. He is a co-author of Fundamentals of Trial Techniques (Canadian Edition) and the author of AIDS, Ethics and Law, and Lesbians, Gay Men, and Canadian Law, in addition to numerous journal articles. Professor Casswell was a member of the Law Reform Commission of Canada Permanent Health Law Consultative Group from 1988 to 1992 and was a founding co-chair of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues Section of the Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia Branch). He has received the Faculty of Law’s Master Teacher Award twice and been awarded the Faculty’s Service Award. Professor Casswell has retired and is Professor Emeritus.

M. Cheryl Crane, Associate Dean Administration and Research (mccrane@uvic.ca), B.A. (Saskatchewan) 1973, LL.B. (Saskatchewan) 1980, LL.M. (Cantab) 1986, called to the Bar of Saskatchewan in 1981. Professor Crane joined the Faculty of Law in 1990. She served as Associate Dean from July 1993 to July 1995 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1999. She teaches Law, Legistlation and Policy and Administrative Law. Her research focuses on human rights, administrative law and employment law. Prior to joining the Faculty, she articled with the Saskatchewan Department of the Attorney General and practiced there in the Constitutional Law Branch, until 1987. From 1987 to 1990 she was employed by the Government of Canada in Ottawa, first in the Solicitor General's Department and later as a counsel with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. She became the Associate Dean Academic and Student Relations of the Faculty for the second time, from July 2000 to July 2005.

Maneesha Deckha (mdeckha@uvic.ca), B.A. (McGill) 1995, LL.B, (Toronto) 1998, LL.M. (Columbia) 2002. Professor Deckha was a student-at-law with the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee in Ontario from 1998 to 1999. She served as legal counsel with the Financial Services Commission of Ontario from 2000 to 2001 and as legal counsel with the Ministry of Transportation in 2001. In the summer of 1998 she was a human rights intern in Bombay, India and worked at the Ministry of the Attorney General in the summer of 1997. From 1996-98 she was a caseworker at a legal clinic for women survivors of violence. Professor Deckha teaches Property Law and Administrative Law.

Gerry Ferguson (gferguso@uvic.ca), B.A. (St. Patrick's) 1968, LL.B. (Ottawa) 1971, LL.M. (New York) 1972, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1975. Professor Ferguson was a Research Officer at the Law Reform Commission of Canada from 1972 to 1973, and was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, from 1973 to 1976. He was appointed to the Faculty of Law at UVic in 1976 as Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1981. He was appointed in 2002 to one of the first two University of Victoria Distinguished Professorships. He served two terms as Associate Dean from 1980 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1988. Professor Ferguson was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Malaya and the University of Hong Kong in 1989, the University of Monash in 1990, the University of Airlangga, Indonesia in 1993, and the University of Auckland in 1997. His teaching and scholarly interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, and mental health law. He is the co-author, with Justices Dambrot and Bennett, of the two-volume book, Canadian Criminal Jury Instructions and a co-author of the Annual Review of Criminal Law. Professor Ferguson is a former member of the National Advisory Council of the Law Commission of Canada, and the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, and an active participant in the Canadian Bar Association, Law Society, and Continuing Legal Education Society activities.

Hamar Foster (hamarf@uvic.ca), B.A. (Queen's) 1970, M.A. (Sussex) 1971, LL.B. (U.B.C.) 1974, M.Jur. (Auckland) 1989, F.R.Hist.S., called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1976. Professor Foster joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1978, was promoted to Professor in 1993 and was Associate Dean from 1998 to 2000. He was a Commonwealth Scholar and Honourary Woodrow Wilson Fellow from 1970 to 1971, and served as law clerk to the Chief Justice of British Columbia from 1974 to 1975. He practiced law with Prowse, Williamson & Foster from 1976 to 1978. Professor Foster teaches Legal Process, Property, Criminal Law, the Law of Evidence, Legal History, and Aboriginal Law. He has published articles on comparative criminal law, fur trade and colonial legal history, and Aboriginal history and law. He co-edited (with Professor McLaren) Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver: Essays in the Legal History of the North American West and Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VI: British Columbia and the Yukon. Professor Foster has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Law and Society Association, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and the UVic Day Care Centre. He is also an enthusiastic member of the Victoria City Rowing Club. From 2000 to 2001 he was a resident Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. Professor Foster is also a member of the Akitsiraq law program faculty.

Judy Fudge, B.A. Honours (McGill), M.A. (York), LL.B. (Osgoode), D.Phil. (Oxford) Professor Fudge's research interests are employment and labour law, feminist approaches to law, and the political economy of law, especially critiques of liberal legal theory. She is widely published in law, history, and sociology journals, and has held editorial positions on a number of journals in different disciplines. Professor Fudge joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in January 2007 as the Lansdowne Professor of Law.

Glenn Gallins, Q.C. (ggallins@thelawcentre.ca), B.A. (Wisconsin) 1967, M.S. (Wisconsin) 1968, LL.B. (U.B.C.) 1972, LL.M. (London) 1983, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1974. Professor Gallins is the Director of the Law Centre Clinical Legal Education Program. He was a member of the Faculty from 1980 to 1984, and rejoined the Faculty in 1992. Professor Gallins has been the recipient of both the Faculty’s Master Teacher Award and Service Award. He has served as a municipal solicitor, Director of Legal Information Services for the Ministry of the Attorney General, and as Executive Director of the Law Centre. His teaching and research interests focus on clinical legal education, lawyering skills, and the application of social science research techniques to develop strategies and techniques to improve the delivery of legal services. He is very active in community affairs and is currently a Vice-Chair of the Capital Health Board.

J. Donald C. Galloway (galloway@uvic.ca), LL.B. (Edinburgh) 1974, LL.M. (Harvard) 1975. From 1975 to 1991, Professor Galloway taught at Queen's University. In 1991, he was awarded the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research and completed his project on Immigration and the Liberal State at the University of Victoria. Professor Galloway remained at UVic for two years as a Visiting Professor, teaching Evidence, Jurisprudence, and Torts before accepting a permanent appointment as Professor. He has published several articles on criminal law, tort law, and legal theory as well as a book on immigration law. From 1998 to 2001, he took a leave of absence to serve as a member of the Refugee Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has also served as the Southern Director of the Akitsiraq Law Program in Nunavut.

Mark R. Gillen (mgillen@uvic.ca), B.Com. (Toronto) 1981, M.B.A. (York) 1983, LL.B. (Osgoode) 1985, LL.M. (Toronto) 1987. Professor Gillen was appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1987 as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992 and to Full Professor in 2001.  He teaches Securities Regulation, Business Associations, Trusts, Tax and Competition Law.  Professor Gillen’s primary areas of research are corporate law, securities law and trusts. He is the author of Securities Regulation in Canada, 3d ed. (Carswell, 2007); co-author (with Donovan Waters and Lionel Smith) of Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada (Carswell, 2005); co-author (with Robert Yalden, Janis Sarra, Paul Paton, Ron Davis and Mary Condon) of Business Organizations: Principles, Policies and Practice (Emond Montgomery, 2007); co-author and co-editor of (with Faye Woodman) of The Law of Trusts: A Contextual Approach, 2d ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2007); and co-author and editor of Corporations and Partnerships: Canada (Kluwer, 1992, revised 2008).  He has been a visiting professor at Nagoya University, Japan and Chulalonghorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.  His other research interests include Malaysian constitutional law.

Andrew J. Harding (harding@uvic.ca), M.A. (Oxon) 1974, LL.M. (Singapore) 1984, Ph.D. (Monash) 1987, Professor of Asia-Pacific Legal Relations. Professor Harding was appointed in 2004 and is half-time with the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. He will be teaching Asia-Pacific Comparative Law, and Law, Governance and Development. He is a former Head of Department and Professor of Law in the Law Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Chair of SOAS' Centre of South East Asian Studies, having previously taught at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He co-founded and has served as General Editor of Kluwer/ Martinus Nijhoff's London-Leiden Series on Law, Governance and Development. His interests are in South East Asian legal studies, comparative public law, law and development, comparative law theory and environmental law. His publications include Law, Government and the Constitution in Malaysia (1996), and Comparative Law in the 21st Century (2002).

Kim Hart Wensley, Associate Dean Academic and Student Relations (kwensley@uvic.ca), B.A. (Trent) 1983, LL.B. (UVic) 1993, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1995. Following law school, Professor Hart Wensley served as a law clerk to the Justices of the British Columbia Supreme Court. She then articled with the Victoria law firm of Horne Coupar, where she practiced for several years as an associate lawyer. The majority of her work involved family law and estate litigation. As a Senior Instructor at the UVic Faculty of Law, Professor Hart Wensley teaches Legal Research and Writing, Family Law, Civil Procedure and Children and the Law. She also works as a legal researcher and writer in Victoria. She was the Southern Director of the Akitsiraq Law Program in Nunavut for 3 years and was apppointed Associate Dean Academic and Student Relations of the Faculty of Law in July 2005. Professor Hart Wensley's course and research webpage.

Robert G. Howell (rhowell@uvic.ca), LL.B. (Wellington) 1976, LL.M. (Illinois) 1984, called to the New Zealand Bar in 1977. Professor Howell joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1980 and was promoted to Professor in 1993. From 1977 to 1979 he was a part-time Tutor at Victoria University of Wellington, and from 1979 to 1980 he was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois. He is the Director of the International Intellectual Property Summer Program and teaches Property, Intellectual Property, Managing Intellectual Property, and Telecommunications, Entertainment and Media. His research interests are intellectual property, technology, international technology transfer, telecommunications, trade, and Asia-Pacific issues. He has published extensively and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Tolley’s Communications Law (U.K.).

Rebecca Johnson, (rjohnson@uvic.ca), B.Mus. (Calgary) 1985, M.B.A. (Alberta) 1990, LL.B. (Alberta) 1991, LL.M. (Michigan) 1995, S.J.D. (Michigan) 2000, called to the Bar of Alberta in 1992. Professor Johnson clerked at the Supreme Court for Madame Justice L’Heureux-Dubé in 1993-93, was a member of the Faculty of Law of the University of New Brunswick between 1995 and 2001, and joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in 2001. She has taught courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, Criminal Law, Feminist Advocacy, Law Legislation and Policy, Legal Method, Legal Theory, and Law and Film. Her research and writing interests often draw her to the places where laws’ discourses intersect with those of popular culture. Her current research projects concern nursing mothers and the saloon as a site of citizenship, and the role of reason and passion in the judicial dissent. She is the author of Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood and the Law (UBC Press, 2002).

Professor Johnson's Course and Research page

John R. Kilcoyne (jrk@uvic.ca), LL.B. (UVic) 1978, LL.M. (Osgoode) 1984, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1979. Professor Kilcoyne practiced law in Victoria. He was appointed Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law in 1984 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. His teaching and administrative interests are in the areas of employment law, labour law, contracts and computer technology. His publications have been principally concerned with labour relations and collective bargaining.

Freya Kodar (fkodar@uvic.ca), B.A. (McGill) 1990, LL.B. (UVic) 1995, LL.M. (Osgoode) 2002, Ph.D. Candidate (Osgoode). Professor Kodar joined the Faculty of Law in 2005. She teaches Tort Law and Debtor-Creditor Relations. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University where she completed her LL.M. Her current research interests include pension provision and regulation, corporate and market regulation, the changing employment situation, feminist theory, and social welfare law. Prior to attending graduate school, she articled and practiced at two legal aid clinics in British Columbia's Lower Mainland and was a Program Director at the Law Foundation of British Columbia.

Hester A. Lessard (hlessard@uvic.ca), LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1985, LL.M. (Columbia) 1989. Professor Lessard joined the Faculty in 1989 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994, and full Professor in 2007. She teaches Constitutional Law; Law, Legislation and Policy; Feminist Legal Theory; Equality, Human Rights and Social Justice; and Legal Process. Her past and current research interests include feminist critiques of constitutional rights, the construction of family relations under the Charter of Rights, and the role of rights based strategies and discourses in achieving progressive social change for women.

Colin Macleod (cmacleod@uvic.ca), B.A. (Queen's), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Cornell). Professor Macleod is currently an Associate Professor in Law and the Department of Philosophy, having taught at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University prior to coming to UVic. He has also been a visiting fellow to the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Edinburgh and joined the department in 1998. He is the author of Liberalism, Justice, and Markets: A Critique of Liberal Equality (OUP 1998). His articles have appeared in Politics and Society, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, The Canadian Journal for Law and Jurisprudence, Law and Philosophy, and Dialogue.

Maureen A. Maloney, Q.C. (mmaloney@uvic.ca), LL.B. (Warwick) 1977, LL.M. (Toronto) 1981. Professor Maloney joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1981, and was promoted to Professor in 1993. She served as Dean of the Faculty from 1990 to 1993. She is a member of the British Columbia Bar and the Law Society of England and Wales. Professor Maloney has published and lectured extensively in the area of tax law, tax policy, women and the law, and aspects of the law on disadvantaged groups. Her current teaching and research interests are in the areas of dispute resolution and international human rights, dispute resolution and the administration of justice and restorative justice. She is a board member of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy and has been, inter alia, a governor of the Law Foundation of British Columbia, president of the Canadian Council of Law Deans and co-chair of the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Deputies of Justice meetings. On a community level, she has served as a board member of the Need Crisis Centre, and an executive committee member of Lawyers for Social Responsibility. On an international level, she has been involved in governance, justice and human rights projects in South Africa, China, Guatemala and Cambodia. Professor Maloney also served as Deputy Minister (1993 to 2000) and Deputy Attorney General of the Province of British Columbia (1997 to 2000). She is the Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy and currently the Director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Maxine V. H. Matilpi (A-Neet-Sa), (mmatilpi@uvic.ca), LL.B (UVic) 1998, called to the Bar of British Columbia 1999, is Kwakwaka’wakw and a citizen of the Kwakiutl First Nation of Tsaxis (Fort Rupert), B.C. Prior to her appointment with the Faculty of Law, she practiced Aboriginal law with Cook Roberts, taught Women’s Studies (First Nations Women) at Malaspina University College, and was the Chief Negotiator for the Kwakiutl Nation. She is Director of the Academic and Cultural Support Program. Her research interests include Indigenous women and feminism.

Ted L. McDorman (tlmcdorm@uvic.ca), B.A. (Toronto) 1976, LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1979, LL.M. (cum laude) (Dalhousie) 1982, called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1980. Professor McDorman joined the Faculty in 1985 and was promoted to full Professor in 2001. His teaching areas include public international law, international trade law, international ocean and environmental law and private international law (conflicts of law). For many years he taught Canadian constitutional law and has also taught Canadian environmental law and comparative Asian law. He has a cross-appointment with the Department of Geography and is an Associate of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. Professor McDorman has been a visiting professor at institutions in Thailand, Sweden, the Netherlands and Canada. He has over 80 publication credits in the areas of ocean law and policy, international trade law and comparative constitutional law. Since 2000 he has been the editor-in-chief of Ocean Development and International Law: The Journal of Marine Affairs. In recent years he has undertaken several projects for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations including legislative drafting, conducting of workshops and report writing on fisheries and fisheries trade. In 2001 Professor McDorman was an invited lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law External Programme held in Manila.

John P.S. McLaren (jmclaren@uvic.ca), LL.B. (St. Andrews) 1962, LL.M. (London) 1964, LL.M. (Michigan) 1970, LL.D. (Calgary) 1997. Professor McLaren joined the Faculty as Lansdowne Professor of Law in 1987. Prior to his appointment he taught at the University of Saskatchewan from 1964 to 1971, the University of Windsor Faculty of Law from 1971 to 1975, and the University of Calgary from 1975 to 1987. He was Dean of Law at the University of Windsor, 1972 to 1975, and founding Dean of Law at the University of Calgary, 1975-1984. Professor McLaren has also been a Visiting Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge and the Australian National University. His major areas of interest are Canadian and colonial legal history, legal education, legal theory and compensation law. He has co-authored the Fraser Committee Report on Pornography and Prostitution in Canada, and co-edited (with Professor Foster) Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver: Essays in the Legal History of the North American West and Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VI: British Columbia and the Yukon and (with H. Coward) Religious Conscience, the State and the Law: Historical Conflicts and Contemporary Significance, and (with Andrew Buck and Nancy Wright), Land and Freedom: Law, Property Rights and the British Diaspora. Professor McLaren teaches Colonial Legal History, Insurance Law, Torts, Legal Process and is a member of the Akitsiraq faculty. He was a founder of the Canadian Law and Society Association, served on the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, has been involved in law reform work on the civil law relating to sexual assault and is active in refugee work and dances the Morris. Professor McLaren has retired and is Professor Emeritus.

R. Michael M'Gonigle (mgonigle@uvic.ca), B.A. Honours (U.B.C.) 1969, M.Sc. (London School of Economics) 1970, LL.B. (Toronto) 1976, LL.M. (Yale) 1979, J.S.D. (Yale) 1982, called to the Bar of the District of Columbia, United States in 1980, and to the Bar of British Columbia in 1987. Dr. M'Gonigle was cross-appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Department of Environmental Studies in 1995, and holds the Eco-Research Chair in Environmental Law and Policy. He has written widely on international law, environmental and resource management issues, and theories of ecological political economy. A co-founder of Greenpeace International, the Sierra Legal Defense Fund, and Smart Growth BC, Dr. M'Gonigle's research and teaching is currently focused on forestry and fish resource sectors, urban sustainability, and community-based governance. He is the author or co-author of Forestopia: A Practical Guide to the New Forest Economy (1994); Nature, Production and Power: Towards an Ecological Political Economy (co-editor) (2000); Where There’s a Way, There’s a Will: Developing Sustainability Through the Community Ecosystem Trust (2001); Ecological Economics and Political Ecology: Towards a Necessary Synthesis ( in Ecological Economics, 1999); Fishing Around the Law: The Pacific Salmon Management System as a "Structural Infringement" of Aboriginal Rights (McGill Law Journal, 1999).

Andrew Newcombe (newcombe@uvic.ca), B.A. Honours (King's College) 1992, LL.B. (UVic) 1995, LL.M. (Toronto) 1999. Professor Newcombe joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 2002. Prior to joining the Faculty, he articled and practiced as an associate with Swinton & Co. (now Miller Thomson). After pursuing his LL.M., he worked with the International Arbitration and Public International Law groups at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris. While at Freshfields, he was a member of the legal team that represented the State of Bahrain before the International Court of Justice in Case Concerning Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions. Professor Newcombe teaches International Trade Law and Contracts. His research focuses on international economic law, international arbitration, and consumer and commercial law. He is currently working on a book entitled Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration.
Professor Newcombe's course and research webpage.

Martha O'Brien (mcobrien@uvic.ca), B.A. (UVic) 1980, LL.B. (UVic) 1984, LL.M. (Université Libre de Bruxelles) 1992, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1986. Professor O’Brien was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law in 2000. She served as a law clerk to Mr. Justice McIntyre at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984-85, and articled and practised civil litigation with McCarthy Tétrault from 1985-1990. After completing her graduate law studies in European Union Law in 1992, Professor O'Brien specialized in taxation law, practising most recently with Blake, Cassels & Graydon in Vancouver. Her academic research and writing is in taxation, corporate and European Union law. She teaches Taxation, Advanced Taxation, Law of the European Union, Business Associations and Sale of Goods.
Professor O'Brien's course and research webpage.


Andrew J. Petter, Q.C., Dean of Law, (dean@law.uvic.ca), LL.B. (UVic) 1981, LL.M. (Cambridge) 1982, called to the Bar of Saskatchewan in 1983. Professor Petter joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1986. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988 and Professor in 2004. Prior to joining the Faculty, he taught as an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1984 to 1986. From 1991 to 2001, he served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and held numerous cabinet portfolios, including Attorney General. H is major fields of interest are constitutional law, civil liberties and legislative and regulatory processes. He has written extensively on these topics, and has contributed chapters to several works on constitutional law. Professor Petter teaches Legal Process and Civil Liberties.

Andrew J. Pirie (apirie@uvic.ca), B.A. (Waterloo) 1972, LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1975, LL.M. (Wellington) 1976, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978. Professor Pirie was appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1981. From 1986 to 1987 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. Professor Pirie's teaching and scholarship focus on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with principal interests in the theory and practice of negotiation and mediation. He teaches courses on Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice, Mediation and Lawyers as well as Legal Process, Civil Procedure and Lawyers and Ethics. Professor Pirie served as the Executive Director of the UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution from 1989 to 1996.

D. Heather Raven (Nakasheohow), (hraven@uvic.ca), B.A. (U.B.C.) 1982, LL.B. (U.B.C.) 1985, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1987. Heather Raven is a member of the Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation. She joined the Faculty in 1992. Prior to her appointment, she practiced employment and labour law in Vancouver. As a Senior Instructor, her teaching areas are Employment Law, Commercial Law and Aboriginal Law. In 2004-06, she will serve on a part-time basis, as the Diversity Advisor to the University Provost. She served as a member of the British Columbia Police Commission from 1992 to 1994, as Vice-Chair of British Columbia's Public Service Appeal Board from 1994 to 1999, as a board member of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law from 1997-2001 and is currently Chair of the Board of Governors of the Law Foundation of British Columbia.

Chris Tollefson (ctollef@uvic.ca), B.A. (Queen's) 1982, LL.B. (UVic) 1985, LL.M. (Osgoode Hall) 1993, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1987. Professor Tollefson’s work on environmental and resource topics has been published in a variety of law reviews and journals in Canada, the United States and Europe. He is the editor of The Wealth of Forests: Markets, Regulation and Sustainable Forestry (1998), co-author of cleanair.ca: a citizen’s action guide (2000) and is working on a manuscript that considers the impact of eco-certification of BC forestry. Increasingly, his research has focused on civil society engagement around issues of trade and environment. He is a fellow of the Leadership through Environment and Development International, a member of Canada’s National Advisory committee under the NAFTA environmental side agreement, and the past President of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund (1997-2001). He was founding executive director of the UVic Environmental Law Centre, and directs the Faculty’s public interest environmental law clinical program. Professor Tollefson was promoted to full Professor in 2007.
Professor Tollefson's course and research webpage.

James Tully (jtully@uvic.ca), B.A. (U.B.C.) 1973, Ph.D. (Cambridge) 1976, is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy. He taught in Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University 1977-96, where he was Chair 1994-96 and Advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. He was Professor and Chair of Political Science at UVic 1996-2001. In 2001-2003 he was the inaugural Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto in Philosophy, Political Science and Law. In 2003 he returned to the University of Victoria. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation (trudeaufoundation.ca). He is the author or editor of 8 books and many articles in contemporary political and legal philosophy and its history, and in Canadian political and legal philosophy, including: ‘The Unfreedom of the Moderns in relation to constitutional democracy’, Modern Law Review (March 2002), ‘Political Philosophy as a Critical Activity’, Political Theory (August 2002), Multinational Democracies (2001), Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an age of diversity (1996), An Approach to Political Philosophy (1993). He is a general editor of the Ideas in Context Series (Cambridge University Press), the Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke (Oxford University Press), and Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy.

Mary Anne Waldron, Q.C. (mwaldron@uvic.ca), B.A. (Brandon) 1969, LL.B. (Manitoba) 1973, LL.M. (U.B.C.) 1975, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1975. Professor Waldron was appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1976 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1992. She was Associate Dean of the Faculty from 1988 to 1990 and Acting Dean from 1993 to 1994. Her teaching areas are Contracts, Real Property Transactions, and Commercial Law. Her major research interests are real estate law and plain language research. She is the author of The Law of Interest in Canada, and co-author (with Professors S.M. Waddams and M.J. Trebilcock) of Cases and Materials on Contracts. She is currently serving as the Associate Vice-President of Legal Affairs for the University of Victoria.

Jeremy Webber (jwebber@uvic.ca), B.A. (U.B.C.) 1980, LL.B. (McGill) 1984, LL.M. (Osgoode) 1988. Professor Webber holds the Canadian Research Chair in Law and Society. Professor Webber is widely recognized as an exceptional law and society scholar in the areas of cultural diversity, constitutional theory and indigenous rights. Prior to joining the Faculty he was Dean of Law at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. He is the author of Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution (1994). Professor Webber's course and research webpage.

Sessional, Visiting, Adjunct, Emeritus and Honourary Faculty

Judge Keith Bracken, B.A. (Saskatchewan), LL.B. (Saskatchewan) 1976, of the Bar of British Columbia. From 1977 to 1991 Judge Bracken practiced law in Victoria. He has practiced largely in the areas of commercial litigation, including banking, municipal and insurance law; was appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia in February 1991 and is currently sitting in the South Vancouver Island District of the Court. Judge Bracken was also a member of the RCMP from 1963 to 1971 and after training in Ottawa he was stationed at various small detachments in Saskatchewan.

Adrian Brooks, B.A. (UVic) 1977, LL.B. (Osgoode) 1981, of the Bars of Ontario and British Columbia. Adjunct Professor.

Don Cameron, LL.B. (Toronto) 1979, of the Bar of Ontario, is a partner in the firm of Ogilvy Renault in Toronto. Mr. Cameron has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation including trial work and interlocutory injunction practice before the Ontario Court and the Federal Court of Canada. He is an Adjunct Professor of Patent and Trade Secrets Law and Information Technology Law at the Faculty of Law of the Univ. of Toronto. He has written and is featured in 2 educational videos published by Canada Law Book - "How to be an Effective Trial Witness" and "Preparing to be an Expert Witness".

Patricia Cochran, B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Toronto), LL.B. (U.B.C.), LL.M. (UVic), is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, researching the role of "common sense" in legal judgment.  Her LL.M. research at UVic concerned the role of judicial notice in anti-poverty litigation.  Ms. Cochran has also practiced constitutional and administrative law, particularly in the area of social welfare law in British Columbia.  Her research interests include evidence law, constitutional law, and legal and political theory.

Deborah Curran, B.A. Honours (Trent) 1991, LL.B. (UVic) 1995, LL.M. (California Berkeley) 2002. Deborah's areas of interest and research are land use planning, municipal, property, and water law. Deborah is currently on leave from West Coast Environmental Law where she holds the position of Sustainable Land Use Lawyer. She has worked on environmental and land use law issues since she was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1997. Deborah's areas of expertise and interests include land use planning, growth management, smart growth, water, the protection of agricultural land and property law. She is a co-founder and board member of Smart Growth B.C. Deborah holds a law degree from the University of Victoria (1995), and a masters in law degree from the University of California, Berkeley (2002). The subject of her LL.M. thesis was "Takings and Expropriation in North America: Limits on Local Government Regulation."

Mark Davis, B.A. (Western Ontario), LL.B. (UVic) is a graduate of UVic Law and an associate with Heenan Blaikie in Toronto .  Mr. Davis practices in all areas of intellectual property law, with a focus on litigation.  He has worked with and written on copyright, trade-mark, domain name and jurisdiction issues relating to the Internet

Joyce De Witt-Van Oosten, B.A. (Alberta), LL.B. (Alberta) 1991, is employed as Crown counsel with the Ministry of the Attorney General, Province of British Columbia. She was called to the bar in March 1993, following a one year clerkship with the Supreme Court of Canada. She has worked as Crown counsel since January 1994. From 1994 to January 2001, she was a full time trial prosecutor in Vernon. Ms. DeWitt-Van Oosten was also Administrative Crown counsel for the Vernon office for approximately four years. She moved to Victoria in 2001 and is now with the Criminal Appeals and Special Prosecutions office of the Criminal Justice Branch,working full time as counsel for the Crown on criminal indictable appeals.

R.C. (Tino) DiBella is a UVic graduate in Honours History (1976) and Law (1979), was called to the BC Bar in 1980 and practices law in Victoria with Jawl & Bundon. His preferred areas of practice are wills and estates, estate litigation, insolvency and creditors' remedies, residential and commercial tenancies and condominium law. Mr. Di Bella is a contributing editor to BC Debtor-Creditor Law and Precedents (Carswell: 1993) and a frequent lecturer for the CLE Society of BC and the PLTC program of the Law Society of BC.

Stephen Ferance is a graduate of UVic Law and a partner in the Vancouver office of Smart & Biggar.  His practice focuses primarily on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications for computer-related inventions including software, e-commerce, encryption and other Internet technologies, electronics hardware, telecommunications inventions including fibre optic networks and wireless networks, applied physics inventions including semiconductor chip manufacturing processes and medical imaging technologies, bioinformatics inventions, automotive inventions including power supply and control systems for hybrid electric vehicles, and numerous other technologies. He also advises his patent clients on a wide range of intellectual property law issues, and acts as a consultant in intellectual property litigation matters. He has successfully appeared before the Canadian Patent Appeal Board, and routinely practises before international intellectual property organizations and offices. He is the author of numerous published articles on patent law and intellectual property, and has lectured on various patent law topics.  He has been recognized in the International Who's Who of Professionals.

Laura M. Ford, B.A. Criminology (S.F.U.), LL.B. (UVic), is Crown Counsel in Victoria.  After clerking for the Supreme Court of British Columbia (Vancouver), she articled at Harper Grey Easton in Vancouver, and was called to the bar in 1991.  She practiced civil litigation at HGE until 1993 when she joined the Provincial Crown.  Since then she has prosecuted in various locations throughout the lower mainland, and on Vancouver Island.

Robert Freedman , B.A. Honours (New College of the University of Florida) 1987, M.P.A. (Queen's) 1988, LL.B. (Queen's) 1991, LL.M. (Virginia ) 1992, Law Clerk to the Hon. Mr. Justice Lambert, B.C. Court of Appeal, 1992-1993. Professor Freedman has taught Aboriginal law courses as an adjunct Professor at U.B.C. from 1996-present. He was called to the Bar in British Columbia and Alberta , is a member of the Executive of the Aboriginal Law Section of Canadian Bar Association (Vancouver Branch) from 1998-2003, and is a speaker/author of a number of publications on aboriginal law issues. Professor Freedman is also a Member of the American Society of International Law. Currently Professor Freedman is a Partner with the Victoria firm, Cook Roberts.

Nils Jensen, LL.B. (Osgoode) 1975, LL.M. (London School of Economics) 1981, of the Bar of British Columbia. Nils Jensen received an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1975 and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics in 1981. Following his LL.M he taught for seven years at the Faculty of the Department of Law at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has practised law for 20 years in B.C. and Ontario and is currently with the Crown Counsel's Office in Victoria. Adjunct Professor.

Keith Jobson, B.A., B.Ed. (Saskatchewan), LL.B. (Dalhousie), LL.M., J.S.D. (Columbia), of the Bar of British Columbia

David Loukidelis, B.C.L. (Oxford) 1987, LL.B. (Osgoode) 1984, M.A. English Language & Literature (Medieval Studies) (Edinburgh) 1980, B.A. Studies in English Literature (Toronto) 1975-1977. As B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, David is an officer of the Legislature. He is responsible for enforcing compliance with the privacy protection and access to information provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the private sector privacy rules of the Personal Information Protection Act. He is also Registrar of Lobbyists under the Lobbyists Registration Act. David was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1985. He clerked for Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, of the Supreme Court of Canada, in 1985-1986. His practice experience includes his years, from 1992-1999, with Lidstone Young Anderson, a Vancouver-based local government law firm, where he had a broad practice that included public-private partnerships, land use and planning law and public law. David has been an Adjunct Professor at University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law (teaching the law of restitution) and at U.B.C.’s School of Community & Regional Planning (teaching environmental law)..

Peter D. Maddaugh Q.C., B.A. (Queen's) 1965, LL.B., M.A. (Toronto) 1968, LL.M. (Harvard) 1969, of the Bar of Ontario

Ken Madsen, B.A., Geography (U.B.C.) 1986, LL.B. (U.B.C.) 1989, B.Ed. (U.B.C.) 2000, has been Crown Counsel since 1991.  He has prosecuted criminal offences in Provincial, Youth, and British Columbia Supreme Court.  Since November 2004, Mr. Madsen has been based in Victoria, practicing strictly as appellate counsel, appearing in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada.

Michael Manson is a partner in the Vancouver office of Smart & Biggar, his practice covering all areas of intellectual property, primarily in litigation. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1984 and the British Columbia Bar in 1995, he obtained a B.Sc. (Biology) degree and a Teaching Diploma from McGill University and his law degree from the University of British Columbia.  He has appeared as counsel in a wide cross-section of patent, trade-mark and copyright proceedings before the Federal Court and Provincial Courts of Ontario and British Columbia and as an expert witness on Letters Rogatory in British Columbia before the United States District Court, District of Oregon. One aspect of his litigation practice focuses extensively on anti-counterfeiting, representing clients across the luxury goods, sports wear, entertainment and business software and consumer goods industries.  With extensive involvement in trade-mark filing and prosecution, both domestic and foreign, I.P. licensing and opinion work, he has written numerous articles, lectures extensively, and has spoken at IP conferences and seminars in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan.  An adjunct professor teaching patent law at the University of Victoria Law School, he is also a past member and chairman of several IP law committees internationally and domestically.  Michael has served on the INTA-CPR Panel of Neutrals for Canada for Trade-mark disputes, and the INTA Academic Recruitment Subcommittee, and is a panellist on the CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panel of The British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre.  Michael has an “AV” rating by Marindale-Hubbell, has been listed in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Experts and Guide to the World’s Leading Trade-mark Law Experts, and is recommended by LEXPERT: The Canadian Legal Directory.  Adjunct Professor.

Sandra K. McCallum, B.Jur. (Monash) 1967, LL.B. (Monash) 1968, LL.M. (U.B.C.) 1974, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1981. Emeritus Professor.

The Honourable William R. McIntyre, C.C., Q.C., B.A. (Saskatchewan) 1939, LL.B. (Saskatchewan) 1947, LL.D. (UVic) 1995, called to the Bars of Saskatchewan and British Columbia in 1947. Honourary Professor.

Catherine Morris, B.A. (Alberta) 1974, LL.B. (Alberta) 1978, LL.M. (U.B.C.) 2001, has been involved in the field of conflict resolution since 1983. She has played key roles in numerous Canadian and international conflict resolution organizations and initiatives in academic, community, nonprofit, public and private sectors. She is a founding director of Peacemakers Trust, a Canadian charitable organization for education and research in conflict transformation and peacebuilding. She is a member of the bar in British Columbia. Ms. Morris is an Associate and a former Executive Director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution at the University of Victoria, where she worked in several leadership roles from 1992-1998. She also an Associate of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) at the University of Victoria. She has taught internationally in non-formal and formal settings, including graduate level courses at the University of Victoria, Osgoode Hall Law School, Chulalongkorn University and the Royal University of Phnom Penh. Her papers and publications include works on mediator ethics and qualifications, conflict and culture, ADR in legal education, religion and conflict, and peacebuilding in Cambodia. Her LL.M. thesis is entitled "Peacebuilding in Cambodia: Transforming Public Dialogue about Human Rights."

Mary H. Mullens , B.A. (Queen's) 1981, LL.B. (McGill) 1985, M.B.A. (Rotman School of Management University of Toronto) 2002.  Mary has extensive experience as a corporate/commercial lawyer in Ontario and spent 15 years as an associate and partner at the law firm Torys. After completing her MBA in 2002, she became Vice President & General Counsel of Tarion Warranty Corporation where she built and managed a 13 person law department.  Mary moved to B.C. in 2005 and now holds the position of Director of the Business Law Clinic. After her call to the Bar of Ontario in 1987, she specialized in the area of real property transactions. She is a former board member of Wildlife Protection Trust Canada and of Toronto Commercial Real Estate Women and currently sits as a director on the board of the Victoria Philharmonic Choir Society.

Robert A. Mulligan, B.A. (UVic) 1969, LL.B. (U.B.C.) 1972, of the Bar of British Columbia. Adjunct Professor..

Sara Neely, B.Sc. (U.B.C.) 1978, LL.B. (UVic) 1982, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1983. A native of Victoria, Sara Neely practiced law in Victoria for one year following her call to the Bar before joining the Vancouver Crown Counsel office where she served on behalf of the Provincial Crown in the Provincial, County and Supreme Courts.  In 1987, she joined Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP as an associate lawyer.  Her work included personal injury defence litigation, followed by three years managing the wills and estates practice for the firm.  In 1993, Ms. Neely was asked by the then - President of BC Children's Hospital Foundation to start the Foundation's planned giving program, one of the first programs of its type in British Columbia. The program supports a broad range of activities, represents a significant portion of the Foundation's annual revenue and now includes five other staff.  She has written and lectured extensively in the area of charitable giving and serves as a volunteer in several capacities in the charitable sector.  In 2004, Ms. Neely returned to Victoria where she continues to serve as Director, Development – Gift & Estate Planning for BC Children's Hospital Foundation raising funds and awareness for child health.

William A.W. Neilson (wneilson@uvic.ca), B.Com. (Toronto) 1960, LL.B. (U.B.C.) 1964, LL.M. (Harvard) 1965, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1968 and to the Bar of British Columbia in 1966. Professor Neilson was a member of the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School, York University between 1966 and 1973. He served as Deputy Minister of Consumer Services in the British Columbia Government from 1973 to 1976. Appointed Professor at UVic in 1977, and Dean from 1985 to 1990, Professor Neilson has held visiting appointments in Thailand, Australia, Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam. A Fellow of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, he has served since 1992 as the Director of the UVic Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. He was appointed to the Chair in Asia-pacific Legal Relations in 2000. Professor Neilson has extensive experience directing law reform, legal education, capacity building and economic development programs in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. His research interests include international trade and business law, competition policy, legislative management and regulatory modeling. He is the co-editor and contributing author of Law & Economic Development: Cases and Materials from Southeast Asia, and author of The Vietnam Investment Manual. Professor Emeritus.

Dominique Nouvet is a litigation associate at Cook Roberts LLP, in Victoria . She practices in the area of Aboriginal Law primarily, with a focus on Crown-Aboriginal consultation, work for Aboriginal groups involved in the B.C. Treaty Process, Indian Act disputes, treaty rights litigation, and Supreme Court of Canada interventions. She has acted as co-counsel on interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada in the following cases: British Columbia v. Okanagan Indian Band, Haida Nation v. British Columbia , R.v. Bernard and R. v. Marshall , Mikisew Cree First Nation v. Canada and R. v. Morris and Olsen. Ms. Nouvet completed her LL.B. at the University of Toronto in 2000. She clerked with Justice Binnie in 2000-2001, and completed her articles at Arvay Finlay , Victoria . She holds a Bachelor of Economics from McGill University.

The Honourable J.J. Oliphant, Chief Justice, Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba will be visiting with us as a Judge in Residence from September 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007. Justice Oliphant graduated from the Faculty of Law, U of Manitoba in 1967 and was called to the Bar of Manitoba in 1967.  He practiced law with Johnston and Company from 1967 to 1985 with an emphasis on criminal and civil litigation.  From 1970 to 1985 he was an arbitrator in labour arbitrations in Manitoba. In 1980 he was appointed a Queen’s Counsel, in 1985 appointed as a Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba, in 1990 appointed as Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba and in 2002 appointed a Deputy Judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice.  Justice Oliphant has lectured at the Faculty of Law, U. of Manitoba on pretrial conferences, alternative dispute resolution and sentencing.

Robert Percival's practice is devoted to commercial transactions involving information technology and electronic commerce.  He has extensive experience in advising clients on a wide array of commercial information technology matters such as technology outsourcing projects, strategic alliances and joint ventures, technology development, acquisition and transfer,  privacy issues and Internet-based e-commerce businesses. Mr. Percival is actively involved in numerous legal and technology industry associations, including his current appointment as the Co-Chair of the Canadian IT Law Association's Electronic Commerce Committee. Prior to entering the practice of law, Mr. Percival was employed in a business capacity with Prime Computer of Canada Limited and with the Telecommunications Business Group of Digital Equipment of Canada Limited. His information technology and telecommunications industry business experience has uniquely equipped him with significant industry knowledge and understanding, as well as a practical, business-oriented perspective and approach in addressing the legal issues surrounding information technology. 

Stephen Perks (steve.perks@thelawcentre.ca), B.A. (UVic), LL.B. (UVic) 1987, of the Bar of British Columbia, is the Assistant Director of the Law Centre Clinical Program assisting students in that program to develop their legal knowledge and skills when handling poverty client claims. Mr. Perks previously practiced as a sole practitioner in Victoria primarily in the areas of criminal and civil litigation.

Geoff Plant, LL.M. (Cambridge) 1989, LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1981, LL.B. (Southampton) 1980, A.B. (Harvard) 1978. Geoff Plant was the Attorney General of British Columbia and Minister responsible for Treaty Negotiations from 2001 to 2005. He was first elected to the British Columbia Legislature in 1996 and from 1996 to 2001 was Opposition Justice Critic, as well as serving on a number of legislative and caucus committees. As Attorney General, Mr. Plant was the Chair of the Legislative Review Committee and the minister responsible for the creation and oversight of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. Prior to his election to the Legislature, Mr. Plant was a partner in a Vancouver law firm, where he practiced as a litigation lawyer with particular emphasis on aboriginal and public law. He was counsel in a number of leading aboriginal rights and title cases, including the landmark case of Delgamuukw v. British Columbia . He lectured and wrote extensively on aboriginal and education law.

J. Andre Rachert completed his Master's Degree in Criminology then went on to study law at the University of Victoria. After articling with Lindsay Kenney (a Vancouver firm), he joined the Tax Litigation section of the federal Department of Justice (Vancouver). In his three years at the Department of Justice, Andre advised on various tax matters and argued tax cases in the Tax Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal - all on behalf of the tax collector. In 1998, Andre joined Dwyer Tax Lawyers and started to act on behalf of taxpayers. He has contested tax reassessments and has defended clients against tax evasion charges. He also provides tax and estate planning advice. Andre teaches tax to Victoria Bar Admission Course students, has lectured for the British Columbia Institute of Chartered Accountants and is a frequent speaker on tax-related matters to other groups.  

T. Murray Rankin, Q.C. is a partner in the firm of Heenan Blaikie LLP. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Victoria for over a decade, and was educated at Queen's University, University of Toronto and Harvard Law School. He completed his Masters of Law thesis at Harvard Law School in the field of information law. In 1983, he worked at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris in the Directorate of Science Technology and Industry on Transborder Information Flows. He served with Dr. David Flaherty as consultant to the House of Commons committee that conducted the review of the Access to Information and Privacy Acts in 1987 . Subsequently in 1992 he was appointed as the Special Advisor to the then Attorney General of British Columbia, responsible for the policy formation and drafting of BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Most recently, he was co-author of PIPEDA: An Annotated Guide, published by Irwin Law in 2000 and has lectured and written articles on privacy topics involving the new PIPEDA and advised a number of clients in the public and private sectors concerning this legislation. Adjunct Professor.

Tim Richards  (trichard@uvic.ca) graduated from Carleton University with an honours degree in Economics in 1984 and from the UVic Law School in 1988. For seven years he worked as a legal advocate with the Together Against Poverty Society (TAPS) in Victoria B.C. assisting and representing persons in poverty with their income assistance (welfare) and employment insurance rights. During this time he developed training courses and materials to teach legal advocacy knowledge and skills to lay advocates. He has been a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the Social Work Faculty at the University of Victoria. For several years he was a member of the board of directors of the Victoria Law Centre. At present he is working on social policy and research on poverty issues with the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group, a non-profit student funded organization at the University of Victoria.

Nola M. Ries, B.A. (Hons), LL.B., M.P.A. (UVic), LL.M. is Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, and Research Associate, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta. Her research in the health law field focuses on: public health law; health system reform, resource allocation and access to health care; consent, privacy and confidentiality; and legal issues in genetics and biotechnology. She co-edited and contributed to the writing of "Public Health Law and Policy in Canada" (Butterworths, 2005). Nola has presented at events across Canada, as well as in the United States, Australia, Japan and Europe. She is a past editor of the Health Law Journal and Health Law Review. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Law and Policy Review and is a member of a joint University of Victoria-Vancouver Island Health Authority research ethics board. Nola was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1999 and has practiced in areas of constitutional, administrative and human rights law.

Lyman R. Robinson, Q.C., B.A. (Saskatchewan) 1962, LL.B. (Saskatchewan) 1963, LL.M. (Harvard) 1968, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1964. Professor Emeritus.

Caron Rollins (crollins@uvic.ca) Associate Law Librarian, B.Sc. (Alberta) 1978, M.L.S. (Alberta) 1988, joined UVic in 1997. From 1988 to 1996 she was a Reference Librarian at the Weir Law Library and a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Law and the School of Library Science at the University of Alberta. Caron was part of the UofA team awarded an SSHRC Support to Specialized Collections Grant (Native Studies). In 2000 she held the Visiting Fellowship in Law Librarianship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. She is a member of CAPI's Vietnam Legal Reform Assistance Project. Her interests are legal research instruction, and collection development.

Calvin Sandborn (csandborn@law.uvic.ca) has practiced environmental law for over twenty years, as counsel for West Coast Environmental Law Association, the Farmworkers Legal Services Project, and the Forest Practices Board of British Columbia. He has extensive experience in both environmental litigation and successful lobbying for environmental reform. He was an associate to Commissioner Stephen Owen during the historic Commissioner on Resources and Environment process. Mr. Sandborn has published widely on environmental law issues, having written Preventing Toxic Pollution: Towards a British Columbia Strategy; Green Space and Growth: Conserving Natural Areas in BC Communities; A Citizen's Guide to the Environmental Appeal Board; Finding Common Ground; and Law Reform for Sustainable Development in BC. He also wrote the best-selling Pocket Guide to British Columbia Law. He has published numerous newspaper articles calling for environmental reform. Mr. Sandborn drafted the first endangered species bill ever presented to federal Parliament, in 1990. Among other things, he has helped to successfully lobby for BC's first farm worker health and safety regulations, WCB coverage for farm workers, BC Hydro's Power Smart program, Vancouver's Integrated Pest Management policy, the provincial government requirements that producers of paints, solvents and pesticides dispose of the used containers, the provincial government's shift to a comprehensive pollution prevention policy, legislation to facilitate the operations of land trusts, and the banning of falcon harvesting. Adjunct Professor.

John van Cuylenborg obtained a B.A. degree at the University of British Columbia in 1989 and an LL.B. degree from the University of Victoria in 1992. Currently a partner with the Cook Roberts law firm in Victoria, he practices primarily in the area of wills and estate planning, administration of estates, real estate transactions, and the incorporation, purchase, and sale of businesses. John is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and of the Real Estate and Wills and Estates CBA subsections in Victoria . He is a former member of the UVic Board of Governors and is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Victoria Foundation . He has been an occasional lecturer at Continuing Legal Education sessions.

Donovan W.M. Waters, Q.C., F.R.S.C., B.A. (Oxon) 1952, B.C.L. (Oxon) 1953, M.A. (Oxon) 1958, Ph.D. (London) 1963, D.C.L. (Oxon) 1990, LL.D. (UVic) 1995, called to the Bar of England in 1958, and Bar of British Columbia in 1980. Professor Emeritus.

Sue Wishart is a partner in the firm of McKimm & Wishart and practices exclusively in the area of criminal defence law.  Sue obtained her LLB from UVic in 1994.  From 1997 to 2000 Sue was a clinical instructor with The Law Centre.  In 2000 she joined her current partner, Mayland McKimm Q.C. in representing clients across the province and at all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada.  She is also active with the Canadian Bar Association and is the Chair of the Criminal Justice Section in Victoria.  As part of a CBA international program, she traveled to China in 2006 to provide advocacy training to members of the All China Lawyer’s Association.

Barbara Yates, B.A. (UVic) 1978, M.A. (Carleton), LL.B. (UVic), of the Bar of British Columbia, graduated from the first law class at University of Victoria in 1978. She has practised in the intervening years primarily in the field of personal injury litigation from the Plaintiff s side and her practice includes motor vehicle, medical malpractice, estate litigation and civil sexual assault litigation. She has taught Civil Procedure and Advocacy at the Law School and teaches PLTC in Victoria each summer.


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Professional Staff

	Yvonne M. Lawson (ylawson@uvic.ca), B.A. (McGill), Administrative Officer
	Richard McCue (rmccue@law.uvic.ca), B.Com. (UVic), Systems Administrator / Webmaintainer Before graduating from the Univeristy of Victoria in 1996, Rich helped create the first Marketing on the Internet course for the Faculty of Business. After graduating, he went to work in the private sector doing database programming and system administration for a manufacturing company.  Later he worked for a little dot-com company in Calgary where he was operations manager.  Following that he came to the Faculty of Law.  Rich has presented papers on Legal Information Technology at Legal IT conferences. (see http://www.law.uvic.ca/rmccue/). He is also developing an Expert System for Legal Clinics in conjunction with the UVic legal clinic (The Law Centre).
	Jennifer Moroskat (moroskat@uvic.ca), B.Sc. (Alberta), Career Development Officer
	Anne Pappas (apappas@uvic.ca), B.A., B.Ed., LL.B. (Windsor),    Barrister & Solicitor of Osgoode Hall Manager, Development & External Relations
	Francine Proctor, (fproctor@uvic.ca), Cooperative Legal Education Coordinator
	Janet Person (jperson@uvic.ca), B.B.A. (Simon Fraser), Admissions Officer
	TBA, Admissions and Financial Aid Officer

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