Graduate Student Directory

Lindsay Massara is a PhD student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research examines episodes of emergency and martial law from late nineteenth and early twentieth century British colonial India. Constructing a genealogy or history of the present, Lindsay positions emergency as a lens through which to magnify important relationships and enduring dependencies in common law between race, property logics, and a rule of law.

Melanie McPhail is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research investigates the regulation of innovative health technologies, including novel regulatory authorization and reimbursement approaches.

Reina R Nadler is a doctoral candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her dissertation research evaluates the uptake of neuroscientific knowledge and techniques into legal processes and institutions, with special attention to the implications of this neuro-technocratic turn for the democratic character of society. Reina’s studies have been supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and by the Donald N. Byers Memorial Prize for Killam Doctoral Scholars. She has recently acquired an additional specialization in the intersection of neuroethics and trans studies.

Vitus is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, and an Allard Scholar Graduate Fellowship Awardee. His research interests are Comparative constitutional law, Constitutionalism, Natural resources governance and sustainability, and Global governance and transnational law. His doctoral research examines the efficiency of parliamentary oversight over natural resource contracts in sub-Saharan Africa within the context of the theories of good governance and institutionalism. 

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.