Debra Parkes | |
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Academic background | |
Education | Trinity Western University (BA) University of British Columbia (LLB) Columbia University (LLM) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Law |
Sub-discipline | Canadian constitutional law Criminal law of Canada Feminist legal theory |
Institutions | Robson Hall Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Debra Parkes is a Canadian academic working as the professor of law and chair in feminist legal studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law,a position she assumed on July 1,2016. [1] [2]
Parkes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity Western University,a Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia,and a Master of Laws from the Columbia Law School. [3]
Parkes began her career as a law clerk for judges on the Supreme Court of British Columbia and as a litigator at Gowlings in Toronto. She also served as the associate dean of research and graduate studies and executive director of the Legal Research Institute at Robson Hall. [4]
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