Douglas Harris was appointed to the Faculty of Law at UBC in July, 2001. He is the author of several articles on the role of law in the relations between Native and non-native British Columbians, particularly in the context of contested fisheries. His first book, Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia, will be published by the University of Toronto Press this fall.

Joan Brockman is a professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. In the early 1990s she conducted surveys of lawyers in British Columbia and Alberta on issues of gender bias in the legal profession. She later interviewed 50 women and 50 men, with 3-7 years call to the bar in British Columbia. The results of these interviews are discussed in Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould (UBC Press, 2001). Her other research interests include crimes and misconduct in the professions, professional and other monopolies, and white collar and corporate crime.

Issues in Legal Education: What effect will computers have on the law school classroom? Thursday, October 4, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Michael Lambiris, University of Melbourne "Successes and failures: the hard lessons of the Australian Law Courseware project."

Michael Lambiris is a Reader in Law at The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He has previously worked at the University of Zimbabwe and Rhodes University, South Africa, where he wrote his doctoral thesis. He has been involved in computer-assisted legal education for over 20 years, most recently as Director of the Australian Law Courseware project.

Annie Rochette, completed her LL.M. degree in the area of ecofeminist critiques of international environmental law at the University of British Columbia in 1998. A graduate of McGill University’s law faculty, she also holds the degrees of B.C.L. and LL.B. Since joining the UBC law faculty in 1998, she has served as Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, and taught in the areas of Advanced Legal Research and comparative law. Her primary research interests include international environmental law, the relationship between environmental protection, development and women at a global level, as well issues related to diversity and pedagogy in legal education.

Marc Galanter, John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, studies lawyers, litigation and legal culture. He is Chair of Wisconsin's Institute for Legal Studies, one of the leading centers for empirical study of the legal system, and Director of the Institute’s Dispute Processing Research Program.

He is the author of a number of studies of litigation and disputing in the United States, including pioneering studies on the impact of disputant capabilities in adjudication, the relation of public legal institutions to informal regulation, patterns of litigation in the United States, and American legal culture. He is currently working on a study of large law firms in Britain that will complement Tournament of Lawyers (with Thomas Palay, Chicago, 1991), which describes the "growth imperative" of law firms organized around the promotion-to-partnership tournament.

He has been editor of the Law & Society Review, President of the U.S.A. Law & Society Association, Chair of the International Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism, a member of the Council on the Role of Courts, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

During the early years of his academic career, he was most visible as a comparativist and is still recognized as a leading American student of Indian law. He is the author of Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India (1984, 1991) and Law and Society in Modern India (1989, 1992). He is an Honorary Professor of the National Law School of India, served as advisor to the Ford Foundation on legal services and human rights programs in India, and was retained as an expert by the government of India in the litigation arising from the Bhopal disaster.

He has been an outspoken critic of misrepresentations of the American civil justice system and of the inadequate knowledge base that makes the system so vulnerable to misguided attacks.

He received degrees in philosophy and law from the University of Chicago. In addition to the University of Wisconsin and the London School of Economics, he has taught at Chicago, Buffalo, Columbia and Stanford.

Steve Wexler: "I was born in New York in 1943. I attended Columbia College and New York University School of Law. I have been teaching at the UBC Law Faculty since 1970. I have written about Torts, wills, car accidents, consumer protection, legal history and legal philosophy The paper is based on a chapter from a book I have just finished called Theory of Legal Proof."

Robert Foster lectures in the History Department at the University of Adelaide in South Australia where he teaches Australian history, focusing especially on the history of relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. In recent times his research has focused on the history of Aboriginal rights to land, European representations of Aboriginal people, and frontier violence. His recent book Fatal Collisions: The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory, co-authored with Rick Hosking and Amanda Nettelbeck, examines the ways in which European Australians have mythologised the violence of the Australian frontier.

Bruce Ziff, teaches law at the University of Alberta, where, in 1988, he received the A.C. Rutherford award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Professor Ziff has also taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Wollongong (N.S.W.). He has served as Special Counsel to the Alberta Law Reform Institute, and as a legal advisor on land titles reform in Ukraine. His publications include Principles of Property Law, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2000); Unforeseen Legacies: Reuben Wells Leonard and the Leonard Foundation Trust (Toronto: Osgoode Society & UTP, 2000); and Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1997) (co-edited with P.V. Rao).

Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji did his LL.B. at the University of Nigeria (1992), his B.L. at Lagos (1993), an LL.M. at Dalhousie (1999) (where his thesis won the Governor-General's Gold Medal), and has recently completed his J.S.D. at Dalhousie. He practised patent law (among other fields) for some years in Nigeria before undertaking his graduate studies. His research and teaching interests are intellectual property law, international environmental and marine law, maritime law, N-S relations and third world approaches to international law, international human rights, international trade, and tort law.

Professor Buchanan has research interests in the areas of globalization and law, international economic institutions, poverty law, social and legal theory, gender and labor regulation and has written a number of book chapters and journal articles in these areas. She has been the Book Review Editor for the Canadian Journal of Women and Law since 1997, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations at UBC during the spring term, 2001. In the fall semester of 2001, Professor Buchanan was affiliated with UBC's Wall Institute as an Early Career Scholar.

Ms. Sundhya Pahuja is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. A graduate of the LL.M. programme of the University of British Columbia, she is a Barrister and Solicitor in the state of Victoria. Teaching in the areas of Property Law, International law and Globalization and the Law (an interactive multi-media course taught jointly with the law school at UBC), her research interests include International Economic Law, Legal Theory, and Globalization and Law. She has published widely including articles on "Technologies of Empire: IMF Conditionality and the Reinscription of the North/South Divide", "Trading Spaces: International Trade Law, Feminist Theory and Human Rights", "Post Colonial Approaches to the Conditionality of the International Monetary Fund", "Normalising Pathologies of Difference: The Discourse of IMF Conditionality", and "You can have any colour you like as long as it`s black, or: Why no-one`s a Marxist any more".

Donna Andrew: Since 1984 I have taught modern British history at the University of Guelph. I have published a book on the history and political economy of charity in eighteenth century London (Philanthropy and Police: London Charity in the Eighteenth Century) and compiled another entitled London Debating Societies 1776-1799. This October, my most recent book, cowritten with Randall McGowen, a microhistory, was published. It’s called The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century England. My next project is the completion of the manuscript of the book The Attack on Aristocratic Vice.

Dr. Pitman Potter (Director, Institute for Asian Research);

Dr. W. Wesley Pue

Tony Hely (Australian High Commissioner for Canada)

David W. Edgington (Geography, University of British

Tom Hutton (School of Community and Regional

Dan Hiebert (Geography, UBC)

Leonie Sandercock (School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC) -

Marilyn Lake (Australian Studies, Harvard)

Patty O'Brien (Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown University)

Louise Falconer (Law, University of British Columbia)

Ian Duncanson (Legal Studies, La Trobe University)

David Searle, C.M. Q.C.

Diane Bell

Robert Poirier (Political Science, Northern Arizona University)

David Yarrow (Law, York University)

Shirleene Robinson (History, University of Queensland)

John Higley (Department of Government, University of Texas)

Diane Bell (Anthropology and Women’s Studies, George Washington University)

Kathy Smits (Political Science, Miami University, Ohio)

Maine)

David Headon (Centre for Australian Cultural Studies, ADFA)

Robert Poirier (Political Science, Northern Arizona University)

Zachary Smith (Political Science, Northern Arizona

Katherine Harrison (Political Science, University of

British Columbia)

John Arnold (School of Political and Social Inquiry,

Monash University)

Robin Lucas (Australian Centre, Univ. of Melbourne)

Ross Terrill (Harvard University and Department of Government, University of Texas)

Jason Pierce – (Politics, University of Texas)

Laurence Chalip and Chris Green (Kinesiology, University of Texas)

Janet Gorchowski (Family Services, University of St. Thomas)

Roger Boshier (Educational Studies, University of British

Columbia)

David Carter (Australian Studies Centre, The University of Queensland)

Ambassador Richard Teare (Georgetown)

Bettina Cass (Sociology and Social Policy, Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown)

Rhonda Evans Case (Politics, University of Texas)

John Wells (Center for Education Abroad, Arcadia University) Henry Albinski (Government and International Relations – Univ. of Sydney

Francine McKenzie (History, University of Toronto)

Jim Storey (Asia Pacific Foundation, Canada)

Rick Barichello (Agricultural Economics, UBC)

David W. Edgington (Geography, UBC)

John Arnold (School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University)

Marilyn Lake (Australian Studies, Harvard);

David Carter (Australian Studies Centre, The University of Queensland)

Dr. Biukovic holds an LL.B. (1986) from the University of Belgrade, an LL.M. (1994) from the Central European University, Budapest College, Hungary, both LL.M. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees from the University of British Columbia. Her research has concentrated on international trade law and international dispute resolution. In 2000-01 she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Institute for European Studies of UBC. She developed and teaches a seminar on External Relations of the European Union for the Institute, teaches Contracts and co-teaches both European Union Law and seminar on Topics in European Union Law and Integration with Prof. Ian Townsend-Gault. Her current research interests focus on international trade dispute resolution, Internet Law and the process of enlargement of the European Union. Prof. Biukovic is working with Ian Townsend-Gault and Martha O’Bien on a text on EU Law.

Obiora Chinedu Okafor is Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall LAw
School of York University, Toronto. He teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights, Refugee Law, and Immigration Law. Dr. Okafor holds PHD and LL.M degrees from UBC (where he won the Governor-General's Gold Medal for his doctoral work), and an LL.M and LL.B from the University of Nigeria. He has taught at a number of universities in Nigeria and Canada. Recently a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program as well as an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow on Peace and Security in a Changing World, he is the author of Re-Defining Legitimate Governance (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2000) and co-editor of Legitimate Governance In Africa (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999).

Frank Waghorn is a PhD research student at the University of the West of England in Bristol exploring the regulation of police surveillance practices in a human rights context. I have been engaged in Criminal Justice research for over ten years since studying for my Masters degree at the University of Exeter. From 1996 to my recent retirement after thirty years police service I taught criminal law and procedure to detectives in the U.K., South Africa and Cyprus. In 1998 I was seconded to the National Crime Faculty at Bramshill Staff College as one of a team of experienced detectives designing the National Senior Investigating Officers Development Programme. I have had a number of articles on policing and human rights published in Police Review.