Graduate Student Directory

Ryan Peterson is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His current reserch centers upon the phenomenological experience of law. His work examines the experiences of legal authorities and how such experiences structure law to the detrminemnt of marginalized populations. Ryan is a former Bar Association President from the state of Minnesota and a former lecturer at Iowa State Univeristy.

Bhoomika is a LLM (Research) student at Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. She received her B.A. LLB from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (2017-2022). She also worked as an Academic Writer for a year, honing her skills in legal research and writing. She has demonstrated proficiency in Methodologies in Law and Policies, Feminist Legal Studies, and Public Policy in Health Law, successfully completing the requisite curriculum in each area.

Wei William (Will) Tao is a LLM student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His current research focuses on the intersections between administrative law, Canadian immigration law, and artificial intelligence. His proposed thesis, supervised by Dr. Asha Kaushal, explores the development of new, robust and responsive, legal analytical frameworks to analyze the judicial review of automated-decision making in immigration, through the perspective of the Federal Court and immigration applicants.

Helen Tooze is writing her doctoral thesis at Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the juxtaposition between Canadian and European conventional regulation of the intermediation of complex financial products with a view to assessing each jurisdiction’s systemic risk-related regulation outside of the macroprudential framework.

David Watson is a doctoral candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. He researches in the field of international trade and intellectual property law. He is a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship and the Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF).

Drew was formerly a staff lawyer with the University of Calgary's Public Interest Law Clinic from 2018-2022. His work focuses on access to information law, administrative secrecy, species at risk, resource law, and environmental liabilities. His prior writing can be found on the University of Calgary law blog: https://ablawg.ca/author/dyewchuk/

Supervisor: Stepan Wood