Law History Profiles

From her first year of law school, Carly Stanhope has shown a commitment to addressing issues around access to justice through countless hours of volunteering and taking on numerous roles both within and outside the Allard School of Law. 

Christopher Hiebert had heard of the Indigenous Community Legal Clinic, a program offered by the Allard School of Law at UBC, long before he became a law student. He lived in a single-room occupancy hotel in Gastown, a block from the clinic’s front door. 

He was intrigued. “The clinic inspired the idea that I could do something as a lawyer that wasn’t typical,” Mr. Hiebert says. Once he decided to become a lawyer, the Allard School of Law was the only law school he applied to – with the specific intent of working with the clinic. 

Nico McKay is an Associate at the Vancouver office of Miller Thomson LLP (“Miller Thomson”). The core focus of his legal practice is litigation and he works closely with both the Commercial Litigation and Insurance Litigation groups at Miller Thomson. McKay’s litigation experience includes appearances before the Provincial Court of British Columbia, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, and the Civic Resolution Tribunal. 

Associate Professor Hoi Kong (inaugural Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professor in Constitutional Law) joined the faculty in 2018. 

Toby Goldbach is an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, having joined the faculty in 2017. She comes to the law school following a two-year teaching fellowship at Cornell Law School. She earned her doctorate from Cornell, where she was a Rudolf B. Schlesinger Research Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law at Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, and held grants from the Institute for Comparative Modernities and the Berger Center for Comparative & International Law. 

Michelle Casey graduated with the JD class of 2017 from the Peter A. Allard School of Law. She currently works as an Associate at Lawson Lundell LLP (“Lawson Lundell”) in Vancouver. Her practice’s core focus is on regulatory and environmental law. She has litigation experience at both the British Columbia Provincial Court and the Supreme Court of British Columbia. 

“I have very high hopes for my generation. As millennials, we are fortunate to have been born into a world where many of the legal battles re: discrimination, racism, sexism etc. have already been fought and won, and so treating people equally and caring about human rights is second nature to us. That said, we are also a generation that is keenly aware of the gap between formal equality and what happens in reality.” Ana Mihajlović participated in the Allard Law History Project Student Survey in 2016. The Project intends to track Ms.

“Each person has a different perspective that is so incredibly valuable and I am so grateful for the friends I have made.” Lisa Guidi participated in the Allard Law History Project Student Survey in 2016. The Project intends to track Ms. Guidi's career and build upon this historical record in the future. Her responses as a student are below:

“Whatever I end up doing, I know that I’m privileged to have had the opportunity to go to law school, so I feel an obligation to develop my strengths to their fullest potential in order to better help others.” 

Robert Mason participated in the Allard Law History Project Student Survey in 2016. The Project intends to track Mr. Mason's career and build upon this historical record in the future. His responses as a student are below:

Rumana Monzur has completed law school with much more than a JD degree. After surviving a brutal attack in her native Bangladesh which left her blind for life, her decision to go to law school while learning to live without sight was itself a study in patience - with a steep learning curve. But her persistence and passion remain unabated four years later. With an expanded horizon of interests and a new outlook on life, Monzur has hardly slowed down... 

Camden Hutchison is an associate professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, specializing in corporate law. In particular, Hutchison examines corporate transactions and governance, as well as the historical development of corporate law. With a PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hutchison continues to the explore the history of corporate law.

Erez Aloni joined the faculty at the Allard School of Law in 2017. His primary research interests lie in the legal regulation of adult relationships and complex family structures. Aloni’s work stages the family as an institution affected by a broad range of laws, norms, and economic structures. He is particularly interested in investigating laws which impact the composition and well-being of households and families, as well as the effects—socioeconomic and otherwise— those laws have on society at large. 

Tremblay’s research to this point has explored how the family has been regulated in Quebec, where blood ties and formalities are of great cultural importance – creating, perhaps, a narrow understanding of the range of meaningful relationships constituting the family. 

Dr. Sara Ghebremusse specializes in mining governance, law and development, and African legal studies and human rights. A rising star in her field, she believes in the law’s transformative potential in the fight against global poverty. 

“I gave myself one year to see if I liked law school, and after 1L, I have never looked back." says Lucy Yuan, who participated in the Allard Law History Project Student Survey. The Project intends to track Ms. Yuan's career and build upon this historical record in the future. 

Her responses as a student are below:

“I hope by practicing thoughtful client-centered advocacy, I can empower my clients to retain agency and control over their lives…”, says Naomi Nattrass Moses, who participated in the Allard Law History Project Student Survey in 2016. The Project intends to track Naomi's career and build upon this historical record in the future. 

Naomi's responses as a student are below:

Connor Bildfell graduated from the JD program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law in 2016. Upon graduating from law school, Bildfell clerked at both the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2018 and currently works as an Associate at the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tétrault LLP (“McCarthy Tétrault”). 

After a six-year career as a Border Services Officer with the Canada Border Services Agency, Anil Aggarwal shifted his focus to legal studies. He enrolled in the JD program at the University of Manitoba in 2012 before joining the law school at UBC in his second year. He graduated from the Peter A. Allard School of Law in 2015 and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2016. He is currently an Associate at Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP (“Alexander Holburn”)—the same firm at which he summered and articled following law school.

Jamie Hoopes graduated from the JD program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law in 2015. He currently works as an Associate at Harris & Company LLP (“Harris”) in Vancouver. His legal practice involves representing and advising public and private sector employers on a wide range of matters concerning employment law, labour law, privacy law, and human rights law. 

“I used to explain to my kids that I worked with the police but I wasn’t a police officer,” says Allard Law alum Sean Hedley (JD ’ 15). “Now I explain that I work for the airplane company but I’m not a pilot. They consider both occupations equally unexciting.”

Hedley first found himself drawn to in-house counsel work after five years of working as a prosecutor. Since landing a role as legal counsel with WestJet, Hedley says he’s found a fulfilling and dynamic career that also offers the work-life balance he needed as a new parent.