Faculty LLM or MLS

Pooja Parmar is an Associate Professor and President’s Chair in Law and Indigeneity in a Global Context at UVic Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on the legal profession, ethical lawyering and Indigeneity. One of her current projects is a SSHRC-funded study of Indigenous laws as sources of ethical legal practice in BC. Much of Dr. Parmar’s research is informed by her interest in legal pluralism and legal history, and by questions of legal epistemology in multi-juridical spaces. In her published research Dr. Parmar has examined aspects of human right to water, Indigeneity, oral history and Indigenous claims, lawyers as translators across legal worlds, intersections of law and colonialism, and land, law and development. Her book titled Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India: Claims, Histories, Meanings, published by Cambridge University Press in 2015, explores some of these issues in the context of Indigenous protests against a Coca-Cola facility. Her paper titled ‘Reconciliation and Ethical Lawyering: Some Thoughts on Cultural Competence’ on competence in the context of the TRC Calls to Action received the CALT Prize for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in 2020. Dr. Parmar joined the Faculty of Law in 2015. She received a PhD in Law from UBC, and has previously taught at Carleton University, Osgoode Hall Law School, and UBC Faculty of Law. Prior to commencing graduate research, she practiced law in New Delhi for several years. At UVic Law Dr. Parmar teaches legal ethics and professionalism, property law, and international human rights law. Professor Parmar is the Vice president of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics (CALE), serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Law & Society, and on the Steering Committee of the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives (CAPI).

Julia Baum is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Victoria, Canada. She received her BSc from McGill University, and her MSc and PhD from Dalhousie University, all in Biology. Julia subsequently held a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, followed by a Schmidt Ocean Institute postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara. Julia is a leader in marine ecology and conservation biology, and is best known for her research documenting precipitous recent declines in shark populations stemming from overfishing. She has conducted field research in eleven countries including the Republic of Kiribati, the location of her current coral reef field program. Julia’s research at UVic focuses on understanding how anthropogenic disturbances, from exploitation to climate change, impact marine populations and what the broader consequences of these changes are for marine community structure and function, including the ecosystem services upon which our society relies. Her research has direct relevance to ocean resource management, conservation, and policy. She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation in 2017 and an EWR Steacie Fellowship in 2018.

Linda Sulistiawati is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) and also an Associate Professor of Law in Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She received her doctorate in 2013 (honorary mentioned) from University of Washington School of Law, supported by the Fulbright PhD Presidential Program. She focuses on international environmental law issues, such as climate change, REDD+, marine plastic pollution, land issues and customary (adat) issues. Linda was a member of the delegation leading Indonesia’s negotiations of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. From 2018 to 2023, Linda was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. In 2024-2027, she is serving as IPCC's lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Cities and Climate Change.

Phil has been helping governmental, corporate and individual clients navigate the complexities and challenges of environmental issues for almost 30 years. His practice is devoted to advising, negotiating and litigating issues involving water quality, discharges and water rights; Superfund sites; real estate-transaction and operations related environmental issues; civil and criminal environmental enforcement by local, state and federal agencies; environmental permitting, including wetland removal/fill permits, Clean Water Act NPDES permits, Title V air emissions permits, local and state environmental permits, and esoteric administrative processes such as those involving Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area permits, for example; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and Toxic Substances Control Act issues, including RCRA compliance and TSCA Inventory listings; facility siting, including the siting and development of green technology and recycling technology facilities; and environmental compliance strategy.

Professor Dr. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger PhD ad eund (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL & LLB (McGill), BA Hons (Carl/UVic) FRSC FRSA WIJA is an award-winning expert jurist and professor of law and governance on sustainable development. She serves as the Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge. Professor Cordonier Segger has years of experience advising the UN, international organizations, and nations on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. She is the Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development, Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Chair of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative.

Dr. Jocelyn Stacey is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law. She researches environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates, regulates and prevents these events. Her work focuses on disaster law, climate change, emergency powers and the rule of law. Her first book, The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency (Hart Publishing, 2018) addresses what the rule of law requires in light of our vulnerability to catastrophic environmental harm. As a national expert on emergencies and Canadian law, she served on the Research Council for the Public Order Emergency Commission (2022-2023), which inquired into the first invocation of Canada’s Emergencies Act.

Justice Preston is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales.  Prior to being appointed in November 2005, he was a senior counsel practising primarily in New South Wales in environmental, planning, administrative and property law. He has lectured in post-graduate environmental law for over 30 years. He is the author of Australia’s first book on environmental litigation and 155 articles, book chapters and reviews on environmental law, administrative and criminal law.

Mr. Chencho Norbu has a Masters Degree in Science from Cornell University, Ithaca- USA. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture major in Soil Science from Central Luzon State University, the Philippines, and graduated with cum laude. He served the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests for more than two decades. He was the first Program Director of the National Soil Services Center, and then went to serve as the Director of the Department of Agriculture, and Director General of the Department of Forests and Park Services. He also served as the Secretary to the National Environment Commission Secretariat, and the Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement of the Royal Government of Bhutan.

Nima Dorji is one of the founding faculty members of Bhutan’s first law school and a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, Canada. Prior to joining JSW School of Law, he worked as a Legal Officer at Bhutan National Legal Institute (BNLI), Bhutan’s Judicial Academy, and he was one of the founding staff of the institute. Nima received his Master of Laws from University of Canberra in Australia, Bachelor of Law and Arts from NALSAR University of Law in India, and Postgraduate Diploma in National Law (PGDNL) from Royal Institute of Management, Bhutan. Nima’s research examines the intersection between law and happiness more generally and in particular the relationship between happiness and constitutionalism. Nima was a founding editorial member of Bhutan’s first law journal (Bhutan Law Review), and he is Editor-in-Chief of the recently launched Journal of Gross National Happiness (GNH) and Law published by JSW Law Publishing Series.

Deborah Curran is a Professor at the University of Victoria in the Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences), and the Executive Director of the Environmental Law Centre where she works with students on environmental law cases for community and Indigenous organizations across British Columbia, Canada. Deborah’s work is in the areas of land and water law, with a particular focus on environmental protection and collaborative governance, municipal sustainability, healthy foodscapes, and how Indigenous law is shaping colonial law. Deborah has spent the past 20 years working with local governments on sustainable communities and green bylaws, and teaches a national field course in Reconciliation, Ecology and Place-based Law.

Jolene Lin is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Environmental Law. Her research focuses on climate change law. Her recent publications includeGoverning Climate Change: Global Cities and Transnational Lawmaking (Cambridge University Press 2018), Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press 2020) and Litigating Climate Change in the Global South (Oxford University Press in 2024, forthcoming). She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Environmental Law, Transnational Environmental Law and the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law. At NUS, Jolene teaches tort law and climate change law. She taught at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in Fall 2023. She received the NUS Faculty of Law’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2020 and 2023 in recognition of her passionate commitment to teaching.