{"id":425,"date":"2016-08-12T10:38:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/?page_id=425"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:38:31","slug":"professor-joost-blom-q-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/professor-joost-blom-q-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Joost Blom, Q.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Professor Joost Blom, Q.C.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-426\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Blom.jpg\" alt=\"Blom\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Blom.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Blom-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>B.A., University of British Columbia<br \/>\nLL.B.: University of British Columbia<br \/>\nB.C.L: Oxon<br \/>\nLL.M: Harvard <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Courses Taught: <\/strong>Contracts, Torts (will be teaching Contracts to Gee in 2017\/17)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Areas of Research: Contracts, Torts, Conflict of Laws, and Intellectual Property<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Joined UBC Law in 1972<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Non-Law Dream Job: <\/strong>Lecturer on a Cruise Ship<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Favourite movie or book: <\/strong>North by Northwest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Favourite Judicial Decision (and why): <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball \u2014 as close as the common law gets to having a whole field of law encapsulated in a single, relatively short judgment, with some wit thrown in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Professor Joost Blom, Q.C. Education: B.A., University of British Columbia LL.B.: University of British Columbia B.C.L: Oxon LL.M: Harvard Courses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41123,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/orientation2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}