{"id":417,"date":"2018-06-27T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/?page_id=417"},"modified":"2018-06-27T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:47:20","slug":"mary-liston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/faculty-profiles\/mary-liston\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Liston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allard.ubc.ca\/sites\/www.allard.ubc.ca\/files\/faculty\/pics\/liston-2012.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did you do your undergrad? Law school? Other degrees?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, University of Western Ontario; MA Social and Political Thought, York University; LLB University of Toronto; PhD Political Science, University of Toronto<\/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>Public Law, Administrative Law, Law and Literature<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your research interests?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Administrative Law, Public Law, Legal Theory, Law and Literature, Comparative public law<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your non-law dream job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bee-keeper and gardener. Landscape architect, if I were to be highfalutin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favourite book or movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book: Mrs Dalloway. Movie: The Big Lebowski&#8211;although lately I have come to *love* Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and I hope the remake does it justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favourite judicial decision and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have two: Roncarelli v Duplessis, because it is the best jurisprudential articulation of the principle of the rule of law; and, The Secession Reference because it is one of the greatest judgments written by any court, anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a UBC Campus hidden gem that more people should know about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UBC Botanical Gardens&#8211;especially the Canopy Walk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look out for Access to Justice Week @Allard Law this Fall and other events related to the Law and Social Justice Specialization!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Where did you do your undergrad? Law school? Other degrees? BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, University of Western Ontario;&#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-417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allardorientation2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"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=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}