The Peter A. Allard School of Law's innovative researchers, inspiring teachers, and outstanding graduates have established our national reputation and global reach. The Faculty is committed to preparing our students to become exceptional global citizens, to conducting leading-edge research that serves our community nationally and internationally, and to promoting the values of a just, civil and sustainable society.

The Allard School of Law is proud to foster a research environment that pulls faculty, students, and visitors into collaborative and challenging research projects. Our outstanding graduate programs offer students the opportunity to study law from within law’s wider social, economic, and political context, and select courses from a comprehensive and progressive curriculum that emphasizes foundational knowledge, scholarly innovation, ethics, and the development of professional skills.

Legal research that employs the perspectives of different disciplines, contexts, and methodologies makes the Allard School of Law an exciting and rewarding research centre. And, as the stories on the Allard School of Law research portal show, research done here changes peoples’ lives.

The Allard School of Law's more than 10,000 alumni include:

• The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
• The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, PC, CC, OBC, former Prime Minister of Canada
• The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh, former Premier of British Columbia and former Canadian Minister of Health
• The Honourable Mike Harcourt, OC, former Premier of British Columbia
• The Honourable Lance Finch, QC, retired Chief Justice of British Columbia
• The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, CC, QC, LSM, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• The Honourable Wally Oppal, QC, former Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, former Attorney General of British Columbia, and former Minister responsible for Multiculturalism
• The Honourable Steven L. Point, OBC, former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and current UBC Chancellor and Provincial Court Judge
• The Honourable Alfred Scow, CM, OBC, first Indigenous lawyer called to the British Columbia bar and first legally trained Indigenous Judge in the province
• Justice Ardith Walkem, QC, first Indigenous woman judge in the province, and both an LLB and LLM alumna
• The Honourable Patricia Proudfoot, OBC, first female judge in BC