The Board of Governors has accepted the President’s recommendation to appoint Professor Catherine Dauvergne as the new Dean of the Peter A. Allard School of Law for a five-year term commencing July 1, 2015.
Dr. Dauvergne is currently Professor of Law in the Allard School of Law at UBC, and is a Trudeau Foundation Fellow. She received her BA in 1987 and her MA in 1988 (Political Science), both from Carleton University, her LLB at UBC (1995) and earned her PhD in Law in 2000 from Australian National University. Following her graduate work at ANU, Catherine held her first appointment at the University of Sydney before returning to Canada in 2002 to take up the Canada Research Chair in Immigration Law as an Associate Professor. She was then appointed as a full professor in 2007. Catherine was named a Fellow of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation in 2012.
Dr. Dauvergne brings a strong commitment to research, teaching and learning. She has an extensive publication record, with a research focus on refugee and immigration law. She received many awards, including the UBC Alumni Association Research Award in 2009, for outstanding research by a faculty member. She has six published books and has received, over the years, almost $1 million in competitive research funding. Catherine has supervised ten PhD graduates, and twenty additional graduate students. Dr. Dauvergne is a member of the British Columbia bar. Her legal professional work has involved her as an Intervener in the Supreme Court of Canada representing the Canadian Council for Refugees; as an expert witness in the BC Supreme Court level; and as a long-time member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Canadian Council for Refugees. She clerked for Chief Justice Lamer.
Catherine’s administrative experience at UBC includes the Senior Advisor to the President from 2009-2011, where she provided leadership in a number of university projects such as land use planning, an inter-university task force on sport in Canadian universities, and a major financial working group on the research universities in BC. In the Allard School of Law, she served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research from 2007 – 2008. She provided administrative leadership on many committees in the law school, such as chairing a major curriculum reform initiative, and serving as chair on the Appointments, Curriculum, Research, and Graduate Studies committees.
The Provost would like to thank faculty members, staff, students, members of the Faculty Advisory Council, Allard Law Alumni Association members and others for participating in the search process, and for providing valuable feedback to the Advisory Committee. And he is grateful to the members of the President’s Advisory Committee for their commitment of extensive time and energy throughout the search.
Closer to the end of Dean Mary Anne Bobinski’s term, the Provost would also like to acknowledge the Dean Bobinski’s outstanding service to the University and excellent leadership of the law school during the past 12 years.
The Provost looks forward to working with Dr. Dauvergne as she brings her strong commitment to teaching and learning, research excellence, and academic leadership to this role. We hope you will join us in welcoming her into this decanal role at UBC.