The Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba has a longstanding reputation for teaching and research excellence. Our students take advantage of many opportunities for individual and group-based academic study as well as experiential learning, conferences, and other academic projects.
Faculty members at Robson Hall engage in scholarly work on the cutting edge of legal issues relevant to our local, national, and international communities. Our research is used by lawyers, courts, legislative bodies and policy-makers across the country, and is published in leading journals and books by renowned presses.
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Teaching and Research Areas:
Criminal Law and Procedure; Sexual Expression, Conduct and Work in Canada; Charter Issues in Criminal Law; Socio-legal governance of harm and precaution; Policing and police power; Surveillance and security in legal decision-making; Jury law, disability and the criminal law; Empirical analyses of legal decision makers; Scholarly Publications
Professor
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Teaching & Research Areas:
Human Rights Law; Trusts, Property; Scholarly Publications; Educational Law; Safe School Legislation and Policies; Legal Pluralism; Youth Culture; Legal Construction of Children and Youth; Law and Religion; Legal History; Theatre and Human Rights
204.474.6155
Teaching & Research Areas:
Gender-based Violence; Reproductive and Sexual Rights; Queer Issues; Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law
Teaching and Research Areas:
Tort Law, Labour & Employment Law, Sport Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Society, Critical Legal Studies, Qualitative Research Methods
(1933-2022)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale Gibson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He died on January 29, 2022.
Teaching and Research Areas:
Advocating for the Rights of Indigenous People in International Law; Constitutional Law; International Law; Metis People and Canadian Law
204.474.6115
Teaching and Research Areas:
Agency; Commercial Law; Private International Law
204.474.6147
Teaching and Research Areas:
Evidence; Criminal law and procedure; Advocacy; Mechanics of the Criminal Justice System; Police Powers
Teaching and Research Areas:
Administrative law; Civil Justice and procedure; Constitutional law; Election Law; The Legal Profession and Professional Responsibility; Public International Law
204.474.6129
Teaching and Research Areas:
Criminal Law and Procedure; Administrative Law; Law and Resistance; International Criminal Justice; Law and Popular Culture; Undercover Interrogations; Refugee, Immigration and Citizenship Law and Policy; Human Rights Law and Discourse
204.474.6136
Teaching and Research Areas:
Teaching: Legal Methods, Legal Systems and Comparative Law
Research: international criminal law, transnational criminal law, comparative law and constitutional law.
204.474.6136
Teaching and Research Areas:
Court of Appeal Clerkship; Court of Queen’s Bench Clerkship; Commercial Law – Secured Transactions; Corporate/Securities Law Moot; Taxation Law and Policy; Disability rights; Corporate criminal liability; Corporate law; Administrative law; Agency and Partnerships; Constitutional Law; Contracts; Criminal Law and Procedure
204.474.9030
Teaching and Research Areas:
Contracts; Trusts; Equity; Civil remedies and damages; Good faith in contractual relations
Asper Chair of International Business and Trade Law
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Teaching and Research Areas:
Constitutional Law; Charter of Rights; International Law; Legislative Process; Labour-Management Relations; Internet & E-Commerce Law
204.474.6135
Teaching and Research Areas:
Aging and the law; Bioethics; Biogerontology; Biotechnology; Construction law; Contract law; Environment, Natural Resources and Animal law; International trade and business law; Legal Pedagogy; Legal Research and Theory; Legal Strategies
Law and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Decision-Making, Autonomous Weapons, Blockchain, Legal Theory, Property Law, Privacy Law
204.480-1421
Teaching and Research Areas:
Criminal Law and Evidence; Constitutional Law; Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Law and Economics; Political Economy; Economic and Social Regulation; Institutional Design and Development; Environmental Law and Policy; Energy Law and Policy; Torts and Compensation Systems; Negotiation
204.474.6148
Teaching and Research Areas:
Children, youth and the Law; Income Tax Law and Policy; Methodes Juridiques; Internships; Law and social policy; gender equality, motherwork; rights of children and youth; economic inequality; human rights; reconciliation; income tax; big data
Boryskavich, Krista |
LAW3880 Municipal Law |
(Bromwich) Jaremko, Rebecca | LAW 1530 Legal Systems Graduate Studies |
Brown, Natasha | LAW 3346 Access to Justice |
Burchill, John | LAW2602 Evidence LAW3590 Charter Issues in Criminal Law |
Daoudi, Tarik | Legal Methods (French) |
Doyle, Andrea | LAW2680 Negotiations (French) |
Fainstein, Lisa | LAW3344 Business Law Clinical Internship |
Fast, Heather | LAW3600 Environmental Law |
Gindin, Jeffrey | LAW3828 Preventing Wrongful Convictions |
Hiebert, Nicole | LAW2680 Negotiations |
Jones, Zilla | Legal Methods |
Kappo, Tanya | Legal Methods |
Larocque, Yvan Guy | LAW2690 CORP I & LAW3050 Commercial Law |
Lugtig, Sarah | LAW3990 Externship Seminar LAW3346 Access to Justice |
McLandress, James E. | LAW3330 Employment Law |
Palamar, Jeff | LAW3330 Employment Law |
Paul, Sacha | LAW3980 Indigenous Economic Development and the Law |
Paul, Shoshanna | LAW3980 Indigenous Economic Development and the Law |
Piper, Penny | Legal Methods |
Saunders, Jessica | LAW3310 Aboriginal People & the Law |
Serbin, Melissa | Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System Seminar LAW3532 Intensive Criminal Law |
Slonosky, Nick | LAW3344 Businuess Law Clinical Internship |
Soldier, Stacey | Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System Seminar LAW3980 Aboriginal Law – Criminal Justice and Family Law |
Torbiak, Andrew | LAW2680 Negotiations |
Torres, Javier | HMRT 7100 HMRT 7200 |
Tyler, Robert | LAW3690 Real Estate |
Wadsworth, Heather | LAW 2680 Negotiations |
Walker, Michael | LAW3990 Clinical Crim/University Law Centre |
Wyant, Raymond | LAW1140 Crim Law LAW2650 Introduction to Advocacy |
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Griffin, Lisa | Career Development Coordinator | 204.474.7932 |
Illsley, Debra | Reception / Office Assistant | 204.474.6801 |
Kruse, Marc | Indigenous Legal Studies Coordinator | 204.474.6151 |
McFadyen, Trina | Director of Professional Development | 204.474.6154 |
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Petch, Jodi | Executive Assistant to the Dean | 204.474.6132 |
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Robert, Chenise | Office Assistant / Prizes and Awards / Account Reconciliation | 204.474.9774 |
Tepper, Maria |
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Green, Zoe | Library Assistant | 204.474.6712 |
Renaud, Matthew | Liaison Librarian | 204.474.6371 |
Shirley, Stefany | Library Assistant | 204.474.9995 |
Sikorsky, Donna | Acting Head | 204.474.6372 |
Stojanovic-Lewis, Diana | Library Assistant | 204.474.7985 |
Anderson, Trevor | Retired | 204.474.6146 |
Deutscher, David | Senior Scholar | 204.474.6141 |
Esau, Alvin | Retired | 204.474.6148 |
Fainstein, Lisa | Retired | |
Guth, DeLloyd | Retired | |
Osborne, Phil | Retired | 204.474.6151 |