Faculty Liasons: University of British Columbia

Mary Anne Bobinski
Dean and Professor
B.A. State Univ. of New York at Buffalo 1982; J.D. State Univ. of New York at Buffalo 1987; LL.M. Harvard Law School 1989; Ph.D. coursework in Policy Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo (1983-87).

Profile

Dean Bobinski was appointed Dean and Professor at UBC as of July 1, 2003. She previously served as the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Centre. She also served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Law Centre from 1998-2000. Bobinski's research and teaching interests include Torts, health law, health care finance and bioethics, legal aspects of HIV infection, and reproductive health law issues. She is a co-author of two leading law school casebooks, Health Care Law & Ethics and AIDS Policy and Law; the co-author/co-editor of a two volume set on medical ethics; and has authored a number of law review articles and book chapters on health law topics. Bobinski has participated extensively in professional service activities, including the Law School Admissions Council, the Association of American Law Schools, and various human rights organizations. She is a frequent lecturer in the United States and now in Canada on topics ranging from health care finance to medical malpractice to legal aspects of e-health.

Research Interests

Health Law
Bioethics
HIV Law & Policy
Reproductive Law & Policy
Comparative Health Law

Representative Published Works

Health Care Law & Ethics (7th ed. forthcoming 2008 and previous editions)(with Mark Hall and David Orentlicher)
“HIV/AIDS and Public Health Law,” in Public Health Law & Policy in Canada (Tracey M. Bailey et al., eds. 2005)
"Health Disparities and the Law: Wrongs in Search of a Right," 29 Amer. J. of Law & Medicine 363 (2003).
"Women, Poverty, Access to Health Care and the Perils of Symbolic Reform" , 5 J. Gender Race & Justice 233 (2002)(with Phyllis Griffen Epps)
HIV Law & Policy (2002)(with William Adams et al.)
Medical Ethics: Analysis of the Issues Raised by the Codes, Opinions, and Statements (two volumes, 2001)(with Baruch Brody, et al.)

Claire Young
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
LL.B. London School of Economics 1970; LL.M. U.B.C. 1982

Profile

Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 1992, Claire Young practiced law with the Alberta Attorney-General's department for several years and taught law at the University of Western Ontario from 1984-1992.She is the co-author of two books and the author of numerous articles on tax law and policy. Her other research interests include feminist legal theory and sexuality and the law.She was awarded the University of British Columbia Killam prize for excellence in teaching in 1998 and 2002. In 1999 she held the Dunhill Madden Butler Visiting Chair in Women and the Law at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has consulted with the Department of Finance and several international organizations on tax policy issues and is currently a a member of the Joint Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Development Research Centre (IRDC) research team (based in London, U.K.) working on The Gender Responsive Budget Project.

In 2003 Claire Young was awarded the Therese Casgrain Fellowship in recognition of her research on women and economic issues.

· Courses
· Taxation Law
· Tax Policy
· Taxation of Trusts and Estates
· Perspectives on Sexuality and Law

Research Interests
· Tax Law and Policy
· Sexuality and the Law
· Feminist Legal Theory

Representative Published Works
· " Tax Policy, Theoretical Explorations, and Social Realities ", Canadian Tax Journal (2003) 51 No.5"
· "From Same-Sex to No Sex: Trends Towards Recognition of (Same-Sex) Relationships in Canada" , Seattle Journal for Social Justice 3 (2003) 757-793 (with S. Boyd).
· "Who Influences Family Law Reform? Discourses on Motherhood and Fatherhood in Legislative Debates in Canada" , Studies in Law, Politics and Society 26 (2002) 43-75 (with S. Boyd).
· "What's Sex Got To Do With It? Tax and the Family" , Law Commission of Canada , (Ottawa: 2000), 196 pages (translated into French).
· "Women, Tax and Social Programs: The Gendered Impact of Funding Social Programs Through the Tax System" ( Status of Women, Canada , Ottawa: 2000), 161 pages (translated into French).