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The Faculty of Law and 污污草莓视频 University鈥檚 Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP) are pleased to announce the joint appointment of Professor Jonas-S茅bastien Beaudry, BCL/LLB鈥�04, as Assistant Professor. Professor Beaudry will be joining 污污草莓视频 University in September 2018.听听

Currently an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, Beaudry specializes in human rights, legal theory, disability studies, and bioethics. He is also a member of the President鈥檚 Working Committee on Disability Culture, Art and Equity. Prior to joining UBC in 2015, Professor Beaudry was a postdoctoral fellow at the 污污草莓视频 Biomedical Ethics Unit, and was also a Boulton Fellow at Faculty of Law in 2013-2014.

After completing his BCL/LLB at 污污草莓视频 University鈥檚 Faculty of Law in 2004, Professor Beaudry went on to earn an LLM degree from Harvard Law School in 2007 and a听DPhil in Law from Oxford University in 2014. He has clerked under Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada and served听for a year at the International Court of Justice under Justice Sir Kenneth Keith and Justice Peter Tomka. He worked for 15 months in the Inter-American human听rights system in Argentina and Costa Rica.

Professor Beaudry has been the recipient of听numerous prestigious fellowships throughout his educational career, including both the Trudeau and SSHRC doctoral scholarships. He has also held a Lecturer听position in law at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al, as well as teaching appointments at St. Catherine鈥檚 College, Oxford. His publications听include a book on freedom of expression in Latin America and articles in a number of areas, including bioethics, human rights and disability studies. He is involved in policy consultations around disability issues.

"Because he bridges the normative and the empirical, and brings a strong policy orientation to his work, Jonas Beaudry is exactly the kind of researcher we need to build an innovative research and teaching agenda in disability studies," said IHSP Director Professor Daniel Weinstock.

鈥淒r. Beaudry brings exceptional talents as a scholar and will take up a leadership role in relation to disability studies at 污污草莓视频,鈥� added Dean Robert Leckey. 鈥淚 am excited about the potential for his joint appointment to strengthen ties still further between the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Health and Social Policy.鈥�

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