Joel Bakan
Canadian legal scholar and filmmaker (born 1959) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is an American-Canadian writer, jazz musician,[1] filmmaker,[2] and professor at the School of Law of the University of British Columbia.[3]
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Born | Joel Conrad Bakan 1959 (age 64–65) |
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Notable credit | The Corporation (2003) |
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Discipline | Law |
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Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Website | joelbakan |
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]