Staff & Faculty Directory

Susan is the Director, Student Academic Services.

Stephanie Mui is the Assistant Dean, Career Services Office. She received her B.A. from the University of British Columbia and her J.D. from the Peter A. Allard School of Law. She is responsible for developing and managing career services opportunities for Allard law students and alumnae, and building and maintaining Allard’s legal, business, and non-profit network. She also provides career advising services to Allard law students and recent alumni.

Carlos is the Faculty, Graduate and Professional Programs Assistant.

Neil is an environmental justice, law, and planning scholar whose research examines large-scale social and ecological disruption within British Columbia’s settler colonial era. Neil’s postdoctoral research is an exploration of the Fisheries Act in the context of the diitiida/the Jordan River Watershed on South Vancouver Island. diitiida/the Jordan River Watershed was once among the most abundant salmon-supporting ecosystems on southern Vancouver Island and the traditional territory of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht Nation.

Professor Parkes joined the Allard School of Law in July 2016. She was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba from 2001 to 2016 where she served a term as Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 2013-2016. She has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Woollongong and the University of Sydney. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law from 2009-2013 and President of the Canadian Law & Society Association from 2007-2010.
 

Robert K. Paterson was admitted to the Bars of New Zealand in 1969 and B.C. in 1981. Professor Paterson chaired the B.C. Task Force on International Commercial Arbitration (1986) and is co-author of International Trade and Investment Law in Canada (1994) and co-editor of UNCITRAL Model Law in Canada (1989). He is a panelist under Chapter 19 of the NAFTA (Trade Remedy Bi-national Review Panel). Apart from international trade law his major interest is cultural heritage and art law.

Dennis Pavlich is a professor in the Allard School of Law at UBC. A graduate of Witwatersrand University and Yale Law School, Professor Pavlich has been an academic for over 30 years and on three occasions has received awards for teaching excellence, including the University's Killam Teaching Prize and the Faculty of Law’s George Curtis Teaching Award. Professor Pavlich teaches courses on property law, the law of trusts and historical comparative law. He has also lectured extensively in the field of education law.

Dr. Maziar Peihani is appointed to the Lawson Lundell UBC Professorship of Business Law. His teaching and research focus is on financial and business law, with his current areas of research including banking regulation, resolution of cross-border bank failures, sovereign debt restructuring, and disclosure and governance of climate-related financial risks. Professor Peihani ‘s research has appeared in the Harvard International Law Journal and the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.

Patricia Penaflorida is the Coordinator, Student Academic Services at the Allard School of Law. She works with the Academic Services team on course scheduling, course registration, exams and grade processing. She also manages the registration of students into directed research, moots, clinics/externships, special permission courses and the Criminal Law clinic.

Patricia has a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.