Professor Efrat Arbel
Education:
B.A.: McGill University
J.D.: University of British Columbia
LL.M, SJD: Harvard Law School
Courses taught: Torts, Advanced Charter Law, Refugee Law (will be teaching Torts to Scow in 2016/17)
Areas of Research: Constitutional Law, Refugee Law, Prison law and Policy, Tort Law
Joined UBC in 2014
Non-Law Dream Job: Photographer
Favourite Book/Movie: The Godfather
Favourite Judicial Decision (and why):
At the moment, I’d have to say Doctors for Refugee Care v Canada, for recognizing that denying refugees health care amounts to “cruel and unusual treatment.”