{"id":392,"date":"2018-06-22T08:47:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2018-06-22T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:47:31","slug":"james-stewart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/faculty-profiles\/james-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"James Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allard.ubc.ca\/sites\/www.allard.ubc.ca\/files\/faculty\/pics\/best_passport_type_photo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did you do your undergrad? Law school? Other degrees?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philosophy and Law at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, an LLM at the University of Geneva, and a JSD from Columbia Law in New York.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did you come to UBC?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2009<\/p>\n<p><strong>What courses will you be teaching at Allard in 2018-2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jurisprudence and Human Rights<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your research interests?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My research is predominantly in International Criminal Justice, but I dabble in other areas too. See http:\/\/jamesgstewart.com\/principal-scholarly-interests\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your non-law dream job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was younger, to be a tennis player. Now, to make an album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favourite book or movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book: Conrad, The Heart of Darkness; Movie: Monty Python, The Life of Brian<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favourite judicial decision and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I forget the name. A decision in the US striking down sodomy laws on the basis of privacy, where State authorities were spying on a man within his hotel room to acquire evidence. I remember it most for the brilliant line &#8220;the question is not what Mr X was doing in that hotel room, it&#8217;s what the State of Florida was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a UBC Campus hidden gem that more people should know about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nitobe Memorial Gardens<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to meeting you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Where did you do your undergrad? Law school? Other degrees? Philosophy and Law at Victoria University of Wellington in New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58316,"featured_media":0,"parent":380,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}