Joel Bakan, professor of law at the University of British Columbia, is an internationally recognized and award-winning scholar and teacher who has worked on landmark legal cases and government policies. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, he has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. His most recent book, Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs, was widely and favorably reviewed. Bakan lives in Vancouver.
