Joel Bakan

Joel Bakan
Bakan in 2011
Born
Joel Conrad Bakan

1959 (age 64–65)
Lansing, Michigan, US
Nationality
  • American
  • Canadian
Notable creditThe Corporation (2003)
Spouses
  • Marlee Gayle Kline
    ​
    (died 2001)​
  • ​
    (m. 2004)​
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Websitejoelbakan.com Edit this at Wikidata

Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is an American-Canadian writer, jazz musician,[1] filmmaker,[2] and professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.[3]

Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan, where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan State University. In 1971, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was educated at Simon Fraser University (BA, 1981), University of Oxford (BA in law, 1983), Dalhousie University (LLB, 1984) and Harvard University (LLM, 1986).

He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson in 1985. During his tenure as clerk, Dickson authored the judgment R v Oakes, among others. Bakan then pursued a master's degree at Harvard Law School. After graduation, he returned to Canada, where he has taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. He joined the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 1990 as an associate professor. Bakan teaches constitutional Law, contracts, socio-legal courses, and the graduate seminar. He has won the Faculty of Law's Teaching Excellence Award twice and a UBC Killam Research Prize.[4]

  1. ^ "Joel Bakan - Music". Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  2. ^ "Welcome to the website of Joel Bakan - Author - Filmmaker & Professor". Archived from the original on December 17, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  3. ^ "Peter A. Allard School of Law | Home". Allard.ubc.ca. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  4. ^ "Peter A. Allard School of Law | Joel Bakan". Allard.ubc.ca. Retrieved November 19, 2017.