Faculty directory

Biographies

 

Adrian Brooks

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

Marian K. Brown

B.A. (Hons.) (UVic) 1980, M.A. (Toronto) 1982, LL.B. (UVic) 1996, called to the Bar of British Columbia. Ms. Brown is a senior Crown counsel with trial and appellate experience at all levels of Canadian courts. She has prosecuted homicides, commercial crime and organized crime. Ms. Brown has taught Professional Legal Training Course (PLTC) classes, has coached moot teams and has published on topics in criminal evidence. Law is her second career, which started in the UVic Law Co-op program. She taught Law 309 (The Law of Evidence) in the 2011 Summer Session.

Trudi Brown

Barbara Carmichael

B.B.A. (Hons.) (SFU) 1994, LL.B. (UVic) 1997, called to the Bar of British Columbia. Ms. Carmichael is legal counsel with the Legal Services Branch of the Ministry of Attorney General, practising in the areas of civil litigation and health law. She has represented the Province of B.C. at all levels of courts in British Columbia and the Supreme Court of Canada. Ms. Carmichael serves as co-chair of the Ministry of Attorney General Articling Committee. She was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1997-1998. Ms. Carmichael was a co-instructor in Law 307B (Civil Procedure) in the 2011 Summer Session.

Connie Carter

B.Ed. (Cambridge), LL.B. (London), Ph.D. in Law (London) 1999, Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn, London 1999. Ms. Carter joined Royal Roads University in Victoria as the M.B.A. Director and Professor of Law in 2006. Previously, she taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Xiamen University in China. She has extensive practical experience in business management in China and elsewhere. Her research interests include: special economic zones (SEZs) in emerging market economies (especially in China and India); corporate social responsibility in multinational enterprises; foreign direct investment (FDI); law and development; and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Professor Carter taught Law 343 (Law and the Development of China’s Market Economy) in the 2011 Summer Session.

Carmen K. Cheung

A.B. magna cum laude (Harvard University) 1999, J.D. (Columbia University) 2002, called to the Bar of New York in 2003 and the Bar of British Columbia in 2009. Cheung is counsel at the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA). Until recently, she was an associate in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, where her pro bono practice included: challenging various aspects of the George W. Bush administration’s “war on terror” in the federal appellate courts and the Supreme Court of the United States; representing victims of sexual violence and torture; intervening in the New York appellate courts in support of equity in state educational funding; and litigating in defence of  a living wage ordinance in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For her work on behalf of victims of sexual violence, she was honoured by New York’s Sanctuary for Families’ Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services for “excellence in pro bono advocacy.” Cheung is currently a member of West Coast LEAF’s Law and Policy Committee and CBABC’s Constitutional/Civil Liberties Section Executive. She taught Law 378 (Equality, Human Rights and Social Justice) in 2010.

Gordon Christie

LL.B. (UVic), Ph.D. (UCSB). Professor Gordon Christie has taught in universities in Canada and the United States, in faculties of Law and in Philosophy and Indigenous Studies departments. He was an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School (1998-2004), where he also acted as Director of the Intensive Program in Aboriginal Lands, Resources and Governments. Gordon is currently a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches in the fields of torts, legal theory, and First Nations and Canadian Law, as well as doctoral and master’s courses in legal theory and methodology. His research interests include Aboriginal legal issues, legal theory and tort law.

Grant Christoff

LL.B. (UVic) 1993. Mr. Christoff has been with the Government of Canada since 1998 and has held various positions within the Department of Justice, first in Ottawa and more recently in Vancouver. He is currently the Director of the Aboriginal Law Section, which is responsible for the provision of legal services dealing with general litigation, dispute resolution services involving Aboriginal issues, and advisory services for the regional client of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Prior to joining the federal government, Mr. Christoff operated his own law practice in Vancouver, with an emphasis on First Nation and environmental issues. He has also worked with Nunavut Tunngavit Inc. (the implementation body for the territory of Nunavut) and the Indian Specific Claims Commission. Mr. Christoff is a member of the Saulteau First Nation, Treaty 8 and obtained his law degree from the University of Victoria. He taught the Aboriginal Law in Practice course in the spring term of 2011.

Patricia Cochran

Patricia Cochran is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Her research investigates the role of “common sense” in legal judgments, particularly when those judgments speak to issues of poverty and social marginalization. Patricia has studied both law (LL.M. from the University of Victoria, LL.B. from UBC) and political theory (M.A. from the University of Toronto, B.A. from McGill University). She has practised in the areas of anti-poverty litigation and regulatory law at the B.C. Public Interest Advocacy Centre. Her research and teaching interests include evidence law, constitutional law, and social and legal theory. Patricia taught Law 309 (The Law of Evidence) in 2008.

Dean Crawford

B.A. (UBC, Honours) 1991, LL.B. (UVic) 1994. Called to the B.C. Bar in 1995. Dean is a partner in the Vancouver office of Heenan Blaikie and deals primarily with employment law, including, including wrongful dismissal suits, human rights, employment standards, employment litigation, health issues, workers’ compensation, government relations, regulatory practice, and non-competition and non-solicitation agreements. Dean taught Law 326A (Individual Employment Relationship) in 2010.

Stephen Ferance

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.

Steve Fudge

B.A. (UBC, Honours in Political Science) 1983, LL.B. (UVic) 1987. Called to the B.C. Bar in 1988. Steve articled with Davis and Co. after graduation. He is currently a Crown counsel in the B.C. ministry of Attorney General, based in Victoria. During his career, Steve has served as Administrative Crown Counsel for the Youth Justice Court and as Administrative Crown Counsel in various Vancouver Island communities. Has prosecuted cases in B.C. Provincial Court and B.C. Supreme Court, and has also conducted summary conviction appeals. Steve taught Law 303 (Criminal Procedure) at UVic Law in 2009 and 2010.

Peter A. Gall, Q.C.

B.A. (Manitoba), LL.B. (Osgoode), LL.M. (Harvard). Peter is a partner at Heenan Blaikie and has been recognized as one of the leading 500 lawyers in Canada. He has extensive experience in the areas of labour, administrative, sports and constitutional law. He has acted as counsel before various administrative tribunals and in all levels of the courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, where he has argued a number of leading cases. Peter has also acted as an arbitrator in labour-related matters and has authored many articles on labour, constitutional and administrative law, some of which have been cited and quoted by the Supreme Court of Canada. He was formerly a professor at UBC Law School and is also an adjunct professor at Stanford Law School. Peter taught Law 343 (Media, Entertainment and Sports Law) in 2010.

George Glover

George Glover teaches the Business Law Clinic course (Law 349) and is the director of UVic Law’s Business Law Clinic program. Mr. Glover practised business law for over 35 years in Toronto. He served as Managing Partner of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in Toronto and was actively involved as counsel and as a volunteer with numerous not-for-profit organizations. In 2006, he retired as senior partner of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin and is currently Counsel to the firm. Mr. Glover has extensive experience as a business law practitioner, including general business law, governance, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and financial institution law. He has acted as principal Canadian Counsel on a number of significant international transactions related to mergers, joint ventures, capital project financings, securities offerings, insolvencies and restructurings. He has also advised numerous boards and board committees on corporate governance principles and practices.

Peter Golden

Hugh Gwillim

B.A. (Alberta) 1984, LL.B. (UVic) 1989. Hugh Gwillim graduated from UVIC law in 1989 and articled in Vancouver. After his call to the Bar, he practised as a defence lawyer for 10 years. In 2000, he moved to the Nanaimo Crown Counsel office, where he continued to work on major crime files and also became a wiretap agent. In 2006, Gwillim moved to Victoria and took a position with the Legal Services Branch of the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General. He appeared on behalf of the provincial government on civil claims in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and in other forums, including arbitrations and coroner’s inquests. Gwillim recently transferred to the Aboriginal Litigation Group in the Ministry of Attorney General. He has been a Supervising Director for the Native Community Law Office in Duncan and is involved in various professional and pro-bono organizations. In June 2010, he was an NGO delegate at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Rod Hayley

B.A. Hon. (UVic) 1971, Ph.D. (London) 1975, LL.B. (Queen’s) 1983, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1984 and the Bar of Saskatchewan in 2005. Rod Hayley is a partner at Lawson Lundell, where he practises complex civil litigation with an emphasis on class actions, products liability and securities litigation. He is currently acting for the Government of Canada in multi-billion-dollar tobacco litigation (including class actions) in British Columbia and Newfoundland. Rod has been the chair of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada’s National Class Actions Project and was a member of the committee responsible for setting up the Canadian Bar Association’s National Class Actions database. He has twice been chair of the CBA’s National Civil Litigation Section and has also been chair of Vancouver’s Civil Litigation Section. Hayley has published and delivered many papers and has chaired conferences in several provinces on a variety of legal issues. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Class Action Defence Quarterly. For several years at UVic, Hayley has taught the Class Actions and Mass Litigation course, which he also designed. In addition, he has taught Civil Procedure, Engineering Law, Legal Process and Business Associations at UVic, as well as Mass Torts/Class Actions and Construction Law at UBC. He was also a guest lecturer at the Akitsiraq Law School in Nunavut. As an English professor, Rod taught at the University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario, Dalhousie University and the University of Ottawa, where he was chair of the Honours English program.

Tybring Hemphill

B.Sc., Psychology and Linguistics (Toronto) 1987, LL.B. (UVic) 1992, called to the Bar of B.C. in 1993. Tybring Hemphill is a clinical instructor in the Law Centre Student Clinic Program. He practises law at the firm of McKimm & Lott in Sidney (when not working at the Law Centre Clinic), primarily in the area of criminal defence. Hemphill joined the Faculty of Law in 2000. He assists students with the preparation of trials, hearings and other matters, regularly attends court with the students, and is happily almost always able to give positive feedback.

Kimberly Henders Miller

B.Sc. (UBC) 1990, R.T. Cytogenetics (BCIT) 1992; LL.B. (UVic) 1999, called to the B.C. Bar in 2000. After graduating from UVic’s Law Co-Op program, Kimberly went on to article with the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General —and never left!  Kimberly is a Crown Counsel based in Victoria. During her career, she has prosecuted a wide range of cases, ranging from traffic tickets to murders.  In addition, Kimberly sits as the Chair of the Crown DNA Resource Group for the province of British Columbia and is an Executive Member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Victoria Criminal Justice Section.  She enjoys mentoring junior counsel and she supervises articled students during their time in the Victoria Crown Counsel office.

Annemieke Holthuis

LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1986, LL.M. (McGill) 1992, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1988. Annemieke Holthuis is Counsel in the Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice Canada. She has worked for the Department of Justice Canada since 1990 in varying capacities, including as Counsel in the Human Rights Law Section (1990-1997, 2001-2004), Solicitor-General Legal Services (1997-1999), the International Assistance Group of the then Federal Prosecution Service (1999-2001) and as Team Leader, Antiterrorism Act Review Team, which supported the Government of Canada during the Parliamentary Review of the Anti-terrorism Act (2004-2006). Based in Victoria, B.C., Annemieke also works with the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy on criminal justice reform projects in China. She specializes in criminal law and national security law, from a human rights perspective, domestically and internationally.

Hank Intven

B.A. (Western Ontario) 1971, LL.B. (Osgoode Hall) 1974. Hank Intven is a partner in the Toronto office of McCarthy Tétrault LLP and leader of the firm’s Communications Practice Group. His practice focuses on telecommunications and broadcasting regulation, policy and business transactions, including wireless and wireline communications, satellite and spectrum issues, broadcast licensing and Internet services. Mr. Intven has participated in many major business transactions as well as major legal and policy developments in the telecommunications industry in Canada over the last 25 years. He has advised telecommunications carriers, ISPs, broadcasting companies and many new entrants into the communications industry. He has also advised investors, financial institutions, regulators, governments and other clients with an interest in the communications industry, in Canada and in more than 20 other countries. He is a former Executive Director of Telecommunications at Canada’s telecommunications regulator (the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) and was one of the three members of the Government of Canada’s Telecom Policy Review Panel in 2006. He was the main external advisor to the Government in the preparation of the 1993 Telecommunications Act and editor of the Telecommunications Regulation Handbook (2001) and Model Telecommunications Act (2007). He is recognized as a leading communications lawyer in various Canadian and international publications. Mr. Intven taught Communications Law and Policy (with Hudson Janisch) in 2011.

Nitya Iyer

B.A.  (Toronto) 1983, LL.B. (Toronto) 1986, LL.M. (Harvard) 1989. Nitya is a partner at the Vancouver office of Heenan Blaikie, where she has practiced since 2001. Previously, she was an associate professor at UBC after starting her academic career in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. In 1986, she clerked for the Honourable Gerald E. Le Dain of the Supreme Court of Canada. Nitya’s practice is focused on the area of public law and, more specifically, on constitutional law, human rights and pay equity. She has appeared before the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has consulted on numerous equality cases and was a full-time member of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal from 1997 to 2000. Nitya advises governments, employers and others on human rights and pay equity policies and acts for them in complaints. She has written extensively on human rights and equality issues over the course of her academic career and was awarded the Marion Porter Prize for her article entitled Disappearing Women: Racial Minority Women in Human Rights Cases. Nitya taught Law 326A (The Individual Employment Relationship) in 2010.

Derek Jackson

B.Comm. (U. of Alberta) 1981, LL.B. (UVic) 1986, called to the Bar of Alberta in 1987 and the Bar of British Columbia in 1989. Derek has worked as a full-time research lawyer since 1998, providing legal opinion, analysis and argument to private law firms in Alberta and British Columbia, and as in-house counsel for oil and gas companies and arbitrators on a wide variety of legal topics. Derek established a legal research practice based in Victoria in 2007 and is a Member of the Board of the Victoria Bar Association. He taught Law 388 (Advanced Legal Research and Writing) in the 2010 Fall Session. He is a co-instructor for Law 110 (Legal Research and Writing) in 2011-12 and is teaching Law 388 in the 2012 Spring Session.

Hudson Janisch

Dr. Hudson Janisch is the Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Chair of Law and Technology Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he taught from 1978 to 2004. He has degrees from Rhodes University, Cambridge University and the University of Chicago. Professor Janisch consults and teaches in the area of telecommunications law, policy and regulation. In 2007, he was a Mellon Visiting Scholar at the University of Cape Town. Dr. Janisch taught Communications Law and Policy (with Hank Intven) and Torts during the 2010-11 academic year.

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

Colin Jones

Robert Klassen

B.A. (UBC) 1963, LL.B. (UBC) 1967. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1970 and member of the B.C. Bar since 1979.Robert Klassen is a collaborative Family Law Lawyer, Family Law Mediator (since 1985) and a Family Law Arbitrator. He served on the Ontario Attorney General’s Committee to enable the Court to appoint legal representatives for children in need of protection. Robert was a member of the Ontario Attorney General’s Committee on conciliation counselling in the Family Court and was on the board of directors for three years, leading to the creation of the B.C. Family Law Practice Manual. He has also been: a consultant to the Attorney General (Williams) on child representation; an adjunct professor at UVic Law (teaching Family Law); on the board of directors for Divorce Life Line (later called the Separation and Divorce Resource Centre and now known as B.C. Families in Transition); a guest instructor for the Professional Legal Training Course (PLTC); founder of the Collaborative Family Law Group (May 2000); and a member of the Family Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution sections of the Canadian Bar Association.

Michael Litchfield

B.A. (UBC) 2000, LL.B. (UBC) 2004, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 2005. Michael Litchfield served as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. He then practised at a national firm in Vancouver and a regional firm in Kelowna for a short time before setting out on his own to establish Redwood Law Corporation. In addition to his solicitor’s practice, Michael works as a management consultant and has managed a variety of innovative projects in British Columbia, including the Canadian Bar Association’s Rural Education and Access to Lawyers (REAL) initiative and the Public Commission on Legal Aid. Michael is extensively involved in the non-profit sector and is a former board member of the Red Door Housing Society and the Habitat for Humanity Society of Greater Vancouver. Michael is currently completing his LL.M. degree at the University of Victoria and is regularly called upon to speak about legal, management and housing issues. He is a regular columnist on justice issues for the legal blog SLAW and has contributed articles to The Lawyers Weekly, BarTalk and Canadian Lawyer magazine.

David Loukidelis

Bryant Mackey

B.A. (Western) M.A. (UVic), LL.B. (Dalhousie), called to the Bar of British Columbia and Ontario. Mr. Mackey is a barrister with the Legal Services Branch of the Ministry of Attorney General, practising primarily in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law and civil litigation. He has appeared as counsel before all levels of Canadian courts and before various administrative tribunals, and he appeared as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada in Ward v. Vancouver (City) et al. and Chattergee v. Ontario (Attorney General). Prior to his employment with the Ministry of Attorney General, Mr. Mackey worked in the Toronto office of the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. In the 2010 Summer Session, Mr. Mackey was a co-instructor in Law 307B (Civil Procedure) and is looking forward to teaching the same course in the 2011 Summer Session. He has also taught Civil Procedure in Common Law Jurisdictions (DTN725 Procédure civile) at L’Université de Sherbrooke’s Common Law and Transnational Law Program.

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. Peter was born in Toronto and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario. He is a graduate of Queen’s University (Hon. B.A. history), the University of Toronto (M.A. history and LL.B.) and Harvard University (LL.M.). He taught contracts, restitution and legal history at Osgoode Hall Law School and then entered private practice with Torys in Toronto, where he specialized in corporate, securities and financial institution law. In 1986, Peter was seconded to the Department of Finance in Ottawa for two years, where he advised the Minister of Finance on regulatory reform and assisted in the drafting of the revised Bank Act and other financial institution legislation. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel by the federal government in 1991. Peter moved to Victoria in 1997 and began teaching contracts, restitution and regulation of financial institutions at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. He continues to consult to the financial services industry and serves on the boards of several financial institutions. Peter is the co-author (with J.D. McCamus) of The Law of Restitution, which was awarded both the David W. Mundell Medal and the Walter Owen Book Prize. He is also active in community affairs and serves as chair of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, vice-president of the Victoria Hospice Foundation and past chair of the Braefoot Community Association.

Raji Mangat

B.A. (UBC) 1997, M.A. (Carleton) 1999, LL.B. (UVic) 2003, called to the Bar of Ontario (2004) and New York State (2005).Raji Mangat is a graduate of UVic Law (2003) and will join the Faculty as a sessional instructor in 2010 to teach Law 314 (Commercial and Consumer Law). She will also be co-coaching participants in the Philip C. Jessup International Moot and assisting with the Business Law Clinic. After graduating from UVic, she clerked for the Honourable Justice Frank Iacobucci at the Supreme Court of Canada and was an associate at the New York firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Mangat worked in litigation practice from 2004-2009, focusing on securities, anti-trust and commercial litigation. She also represented several pro bono clients in the areas of refugee law, death penalty appeals and public interest advocacy. A member of both the Ontario and New York Bars, she worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague and with the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London, England.

Michael Manson

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. Professor emerita.

Claude Marchessault

B. Comm. (McGill), LL.B. (McGill), Dip. Mngt. (McGill), member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Law Society of British Columbia. Mr. Marchessault is a sole practitioner with offices in Victoria, B.C. and Oakville, Ontario. He practised law as an associate with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (formerly Fraser & Beatty) and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP (both in Toronto) prior to establishing his own firm in 1995. Mr. Marchessault’s practice focuses primarily on the areas of pensions and employee benefits. He advises major Canadian and international employers, as well as trustees, on all aspects of pension plan obligations, governance and administration. He also has extensive experience in pension litigation, having appeared in various matters before the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, Ontario Divisional Court, Supreme Court of Ontario and Ontario Court of Appeal. Mr. Marchessault’s practice also focuses on wills, trusts, powers of attorney and estates (including their planning and administration) and advising on contentious matters. For the past 15 years, he has taught various professional development courses throughout Canada (including numerous First Nations programs) for Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning - Centre for Employee Benefits. Mr. Marchessault taught Law 320 (Succession and Estate Planning) in 2009.

Sarah Morales

LL.B. (UVic) 2004, LL.M. (University of Arizona) 2006. Sarah Morales is Coast Salish and a member of Cowichan Tribes. As the Department of Justice Congressional Fellow at the University of Arizona, Sarah clerked for the Pasqua Yaqui Tribal Appellate Court and worked on a petition to the Organization of American States. Her research interests include water law, international human rights law and Indigenous legal traditions. She has worked for numerous First Nation organizations in British Columbia throughout her studies, including the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, the National Centre for First Nations Governance and Cowichan Tribes. Sarah is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She taught Law 343 (International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples) in 2009.

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."

Michael Munro

B.A. (UVic) 1985, LL.B. (UVic) 1990. Called to the B.C. Bar in 1991. Michael is a sole criminal defence practitioner with over 20 years of expertise in the field. He has successfully defended clients faced with criminal charges at all levels of British Columbia’s courts and at the Supreme Court of Canada. He currently has an office located in downtown Victoria.

William A.W. Neilson

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.

Grace Pastine

B.A. summa cum laude (Wells College) 1997, J.D. (University of Washington School of Law) 2002, admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 2003, called to the British Columbia Bar in 2006. Grace Pastine is the litigation director for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA). She directs the organization’s nationwide legal program, conducting and overseeing civil liberties and human rights litigation at all levels of the court system (including the Supreme Court of Canada) and at administrative tribunals and commissions of inquiry. Since joining the BCCLA, she has worked on over 40 high-profile cases related to a wide range of civil liberties and human rights issues, including: freedom of speech and expression; national security issues; access to government information; police misconduct; privacy rights; women’s rights; voting rights; the right to counsel; and prisoner rights. Prior to joining the BCCLA, Grace was a lawyer with Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP in Vancouver, B.C. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and serves on the CBABC’s Constitutional/Civil Liberties Section Executive. Grace co-taught Law 378 (Equality, Human Rights and Social Justice) in 2010.

John Pennington

LL.B. (UVic) 1980; B.Sc. Hons. (UVic) 1971. John Pennington has been General Counsel to the Forest Practices Board since 1995. The board is British Columbia’s independent watchdog for sound forest practices under the Forest and Range Practices Act. John  provides legal and policy advice and occasionally represents the board at administrative hearings or in court. He studied biochemistry at UVic (graduating in 1971) and worked for several years at a forest research centre in Victoria. He later attended UVic Law (graduating in 1980) and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1981. John practised law with Harman, Wilson in Victoria for several years and then worked as a solicitor in the Legal Services Branch of the Ministry of Attorney General. He was later the city solicitor for the City of Victoria and a member of the team that negotiated a treaty with the Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern British Columbia.

Robert Percival

Robert'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

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.

Dan W. Puchniak

B.A. (Manitoba), LL.B. (UVic), LL.M. and LL.D. (Kyushu), called to the Bar of Ontario. Mr. Puchniak is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore, where he teaches Japanese Corporate Law and Governance, Singapore Company Law and Comparative Corporate Law. He has received numerous academic awards, including the Jean and Joseph McCombe Memorial Prize (for placing first in his Bachelor of Arts degree program) and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship to complete an LL.M. in International Economic and Business Law and an LL.D. at Kyushu University. He has published widely on comparative and Japanese corporate law and governance, and he is regularly invited to present his scholarship and to lecture at leading law schools in Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Australia, the U.S. and Canada. His most recent research paper on shareholder litigation in Japan was selected for presentation at the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Puchniak is currently the ASEAN Convener for the Australian Network for Japanese Law and a member of the editorial board for the Max Planck Institute’s Journal of Japanese Law. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a corporate commercial litigator at Torys LLP. Professor Puchniak taught Law 343 (Japanese Corporate Law and Governance) in the 2011 Summer Session.

T. Murray Rankin, Q.C.

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.

Tim Richards

B.A. (Carleton) 1984, LL.B. (UVic) 1988, B.Ed. (UVic) 2005. Richards' primary area of interest is administrative law, with a focus on the relationship between law and poverty. He worked for seven years as a legal advocate with the Together Against Poverty Society (TAPS) in Victoria B.C., assisting and representing persons in poverty with regard to their income assistance (welfare) rights and employment insurance rights. Prior to working at the law school, Tim was active in social policy research on poverty-related issues and he continues this work while teaching at the law school. He has also taught in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Richards is responsible for the Faculty’s first-year Legal Research and Writing Program. He also teaches Law 104 (Legislation and Policy), Law 388 (Advanced Legal Research and Writing) and Law 333 (Social Welfare Law).

Nola M. Ries

B.A. (Hons), LL.B., M.P.A. (UVic), LL.M., called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1999. Professor Ries’ research in health law focuses on: public health law; legal aspects of health system reform; consent, privacy and confidentiality; governance of health research; and legal issues in genetics and biotechnology. She has authored over 40 articles, book chapters and major reports on various topics in health law and policy and has co-edited and contributed to the writing of the books Public Health Law and Policy in Canada (Butterworths, 1st ed. 2005 & 2nd ed. 2008) and Nutrition and Genomics: Issues of Ethics, Law, Regulation & Communication (Elsevier, 2009). Professor Ries has presented at events throughout Canada, as well as in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She is an adjunct faculty member with the School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, and affiliated as a research associate with the Health Law Institute, University of Alberta. She serves on research ethics boards, is a past editor of the Health Law Journal and Health Law Review, and has practised 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.

Calvin Sandborn

Sandborn has practiced environmental law for over 20 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. Sandborn drafted the first endangered species bill ever presented to the federal parliament, in 1990. Among other things, he has helped to successfully lobby for B.C.'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 requirement 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. Sandborn is the legal director of the Environmental Law Centre and teaches Law 353 (Environmental Law Centre Clinic).

Judith Sayers

Judith Sayers is an adjunct professor at UVic Law and an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, as part of a collaborative project to teach students from both faculties about the importance of Aboriginal economic development and its impact on the financial and social well-being of First Nations communities throughout Canada. Sayers will be working closely with students and faculty members to raise awareness of issues and challenges related to Aboriginal economic development and will contribute her considerable knowledge and experience to the university's ongoing research in this field. She will also be involved in activities related to the National Aboriginal Economic Development Chair (NAEDC) program headed by Professor James Hopkins. Sayers holds a business degree and was one of the first Indigenous law school graduates of the University of British Columbia. She also holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Queen's University. Sayers practised law for 18 years in Alberta and British Columbia and has extensive experience working with international agencies and government bodies to advance the causes of First Nations rights, sustainable development and Aboriginal title issues. She was Chief of the Hupacasath First Nation in Port Alberni for 14 years, acted as its chief negotiator for many years, served as president of the Upnit Power Corporation and was also named to the political executive of the First Nation Summit in 2006. Her many honours include the 2008 Silver Medal in Climate Change from the Canadian Environmental Association, induction into the Canadian Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame and a Bora Laskin Fellowship on Human Rights. She was twice honoured with a Woman of Distinction Award from the Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Lee V. Seshagiri

B.A. (McGill) 2001, LL.B. (Dalhousie) 2006, called to the Bar of Ontario in 2007, LL.M. and Frank Knox Memorial Fellow (Harvard) 2009. Professor Seshagiri served as law clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Louise Charron at the Supreme Court of Canada. Previously, he articled at Ogilvy Renault Barristers and Solicitors LLP in Ottawa. He is a past volunteer for the Dalhousie Indigenous Blacks and Mi’kmaq Initiative and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Professor Seshagiri has published in the field of comparative law and he recently revised and edited the chapter on confessions for the third edition of The Law of Evidence in Canada (Butterworths: forthcoming).

Mark Sidel

A.B. (Princeton) 1979, M.A. (Yale) 1982, J.D. (Columbia) 1985. Mr. Sidel is a law professor at the University of Iowa and a research scholar at the university's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. His research focuses on law, philanthropy and the non-profit sector, and on comparative law in Asia (with a particular focus on Vietnam, but also China and South Asia). He teaches philanthropy and non-profit institutions, contracts, and comparative and international law. He has served as a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School and Vermont Law School, and was named a University of Iowa Faculty Scholar in 2006. He co-taught Law 343 (Civil Society and Human Rights in Asia) in the 2011 Summer Session.

Kerry L. Simmons

B.A. History (UVic), B.A. Child and Youth Care (UVic), LL.B. (Calgary), of the Bar of British Columbia 2000. Ms. Simmons’ preferred areas of practice are family law and non-family civil litigation, particularly in the areas of estates, property, contracts, and professional negligence and regulation. She is a member of the executive committee of the B.C. Branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a past president of the Victoria Bar Association. She currently chairs the Inquiry Committee of the College of Dental Hygienists of B.C. and the Board of the Youth Parliament of B.C. Alumni Association.

John Simpkins

B.A. (Harvard), J.D. (Duke), LL.M. (Duke). Mr. Simpkins is an assistant professor of law and Director of Diversity Initiatives at the Charleston School of Law in Charleston, South Carolina. Professor Simpkins is also Of Counsel with the law firm of Wyche Burgess Freeman and Parham in Greenville, South Carolina. He has observed or served as a consultant in constitution-building processes in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda. Professor Simpkins has studied in the law faculties of the University of Cape Town and the University of Hong Kong, in addition to lecturing at the National Advocacy Center, the University of Granada in Spain, the University of South Carolina School of Law, the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, the University of Otago in New Zealand and the University of Nankai in Tianjin, China. Professor Simpkins is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the African Network of the International Association of Constitutional Law and the American Bar Association Task Force on International Electoral Standards. Professor Simpkins taught Law 343 (Comparative Constitutional Law in the 2011 Summer Session.

Colleen Smith

B.Comm. (St. Mary’s, magna cum laude) 1986, LL.B. (UBC) 1994. Called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1995. Colleen Smith joined the law school as a senior instructor for a one-year term in July 2011. She has enjoyed a highly successful career as a criminal lawyer and comes to UVic from the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General, where she is a Crown counsel. Smith began her career as a criminal defence lawyer. She has since served as lead counsel in a wide range of criminal cases and has handled the prosecution of serious offences involving property, assault, murder, and various charges under the Income Tax Act and the Customs Act. Smith is an accomplished prosecutor with expertise in wiretap law, warrant procedures and serious motor vehicle offences. She regularly advises police departments in complex investigations involving surveillance, DNA evidence, blood spatter analysis, police agents and undercover operations. In 2000, she provided legal commentary for TSN and ESPN during the assault trial of former NHL player Marty McSorley. Colleen has mentored numerous junior lawyers in the Crown prosecutor’s office. Smith has taught several courses at the Faculty of Law in recent years and her teaching responsibilities during the 2011-12 academic year include Criminal Procedure, The Criminal Law Process, The Law of Evidence, and Advocacy.

Gib van Ert

B.A. (Hons.) in History (McGill) 1995, B.A. (Hons.) in Law (Cambridge) 1998, LL.M. (Toronto) 2000. Called to the Bar of British Columbia in 2004. Gib van Ert has a broad civil litigation practice that includes commercial, real estate, environmental, administrative and public law matters. He has also advised a variety of public bodies, including professional regulators, administrative tribunals and Crown corporations. He is a former law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and at the Court of Appeal for British Columbia. Gib has been a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, England, and a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Gib is the author of Using International Law in Canadian Courts, 2nd ed. (Irwin Law, 2008) and other works on international and constitutional law issues. He is a regular contributor to the Canadian Yearbook of International Law and a frequent speaker on international law topics at academic and professional conferences around the country. Gib is teaching LAW 330 (International Law) in 2011-12.

Sherie Verhulst

LL.B. (Osgoode Hall) 1999, LL.M. (Osgoode Hall) 2008, called to the Bar of B.C. in 2000. Sherie Verhulst has held various positions as barrister and solicitor with the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General and has worked as a legislative analyst with the Ministry of Health. She currently practises as a Legislative Counsel with the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General, specializing in the drafting of health and public safety legislation.

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

LL.B. (UVic) 1994, called to the Bar of B.C. in 1995. Sue Wishart was appointed to the bench of the B.C. Provincial Court in April 2009. She had been a partner in the firm of McKimm & Wishart since 1992 and practised exclusively in the area of criminal defence law, representing clients throughout the province and at all levels of court (including the Supreme Court of Canada). From 1997 to 2000, she was a clinical instructor with The Law Centre. She was also active with the Canadian Bar Association and as part of a CBA international program, she travelled to China in 2006 to provide advocacy training to members of the All China Lawyers Association.

Kate Young

B.A. (UBC) 1973, LL.B. (UBC) 1977. Kate Young has acted as counsel for individuals and organizations in labour, employment, human rights, disability and personal injury claims for over 25 years. She served as a vice-chair of the B.C. Labour Relations Board from 1992 to 1997, conducting numerous hearings and issuing decisions on union certifications and decertifications, unfair labour practice complaints, strike, lockout and essential services provisions, and all associated sections of the Labour Relations Code. As a labour arbitrator, she has helped parties resolve disputes under collective agreements and she has investigated harassment, human rights and dysfunctional workplace complaints. Over the past 15 years, she has conducted numerous mediations in human rights, small claims and motor vehicle accident disputes. She is a civil mediator with the British Columbia Mediator Roster Society, chartered as a mediator by the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute, and is listed as an alternative dispute resolution specialist with the ADR Institute of Canada. Young taught Law 326B (Labour Law) in 2009.

Qianfan Zhang

Professor Zhang obtained his Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin (1999). He taught comparative constitutional law and administrative law at Nanjing University Law School in China from 1999 to 2003, before joining the law faculty at Peking University. He is director of the Center for Parliamentary Studies, senior deputy director of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Center at PKU and vice-president of the Chinese Constitutional Law Association. He has published several books and numerous articles in Chinese and comparative public law. Dr. Zhang is a leading constitutional law scholar in China and was a visiting professor at UVic Law for 2009-2011

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