Centre for Feminist Legal Studies at Allard Law UBC

08/31/2026

The CFLS is pleased to announce the 2026 CFLS Award Winners!

🏆 Congratulations to Parul Kanwar, recipient of the 2026 Auriol Gurner Young Memorial Award. Parul is a second-year JD student who has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to feminist advocacy, research, and community-building both before and during law school.

The award honours the memory of Auriol Gurner Young, who died in 2005 after a lengthy and determined struggle with cancer. She was a remarkable woman with a lifelong love of learning and a great intellectual curiosity. In her 50's, Auriol started her university education, graduating with first class honours in 1983. She loved life, people and ideas.

🏆 Congratulations to Brittany Fox, recipient of the 2026 Marlee Kline Essay Prize (JD Student) for her essay “Clearing Up the Grey Area: A Guidelines-Based Reimbursement Model for Greater Certainty and Equity in Canadian Surrogacy Law.”

The prize is offered in the name of Marlee Kline, a feminist professor at the Allard School of Law who died in November 2001 after a lengthy and determined struggle with leukemia. Her work on feminist legal theory and critical race theory, child welfare law and policy, law’s continued colonialism, and restructuring of the social welfare state is internationally acclaimed.

🔗 Visit the following link to read their full profiles: https://allard.ubc.ca/research/research-centres-and-programs/centre-feminist-legal-studies/students/student-awards-prizes

07/06/2026

Save the date!

Mark your calendars! The CFLS is preparing to host a series of events from May 11-14 to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

We will be distributing further details in the following months, so keep an eye out. We would love for you to attend and look forward to celebrating this achievement together.

📅 May 11-14, 2027
📍 Allard Hall & TDB

05/21/2026

Applications for CFLS award and prizes are officially open!

The CFLS encourages current students at the Peter A. Allard School of Law to apply and/or share these opportunities.
- Auriol Gurner Young Memorial Award (available to J.D. students)
- Marlee G. Kline Essay Prizes (available to both J.D. and graduate students)

📅 Deadline: Wednesday, June 17 | 5:00 PM PST

🔗 For full details and submission guidelines, check out the following link: https://allard.ubc.ca/research/research-centres-and-programs/centre-feminist-legal-studies/students/student-awards-prizes

We look forward to reading your submissions! If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out.

05/13/2026

On May 19, join CFLS Visiting Scholar, Professor Hilde Tubex, for lunch and discussion of her research about life sentences and the experiences of women and Indigenous peoples in Australian prisons.

📅 Tuesday, May 19 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM
📍Terrace Lounge, 4th Floor | Allard Hall

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out.

05/11/2026

On Friday, May 15th, from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm PST in Room 122 at Allard Hall, Oludolapo Makinde (PhD Candidate, Peter A. Allard School of Law and Liu Scholar, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) will present “Algorithmic Harm and AI Governance: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of the EU and Brazil.”

This lecture will examinel, through an intersectional feminist lens, how the European Union and Brazil are approaching AI governance and whether these frameworks adequately address algorithmic harm shaped by gender, race, class, and other inequalities.

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This talk with examine through an intersectional feminist lens how the European Union and Brazil are approaching the governance of AI systems.

04/07/2026

Join Green College (Coach House, 6201 Cecil Green Park Rd) on Thursday, April 9th from 5:00pm to 6:20pm for "Secrets on our Doorstep: Vancouver and the Shadow on the World Cup." At this event, journalist Matthew Hall will discuss his research into abuse in sports and systemic cover-ups by sports organizations and educational institutions across North America, with a focus on the 2026 World Cup games.

As Vancouver prepares to host 2026 World Cup games, a chilling local history haunts the celebration. In 2008, Canada Soccer and the Vancouver Whitecaps quietly severed ties with coach Bob Birarda in response to multiple complaints of predatory behaviour. Institutional silence allowed Birarda to coach local girls for another decade until whistleblowers, like Matthew Hall, lifted the curtain on this history of abuse.

For further information, please visit this link: https://greencollege.ubc.ca/events/secrets-our-doorstep-vancouver-and-shadow-world-cup